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I’m gonna CRY

i can’t believe the holidays are over ALREADY. Its SUNDAY. Tomorrow is Monday. Tomorrow is a WORK DAY. That is SO SAD.

I need a vacation! 🙂

HAPPY New Year

Realized I never wished y’all a happy new year – man I’m just not as prolific with posting to my blog these days as I have been in the past.

My new years eve / day this year was JUST what I needed – low key with good friends… I decided a little while ago that this year I didn’t want to spend New Years eve doing things that would keep me out till sunrise and ruin my next day. I’ve never been much of a fan of New Years eve in general – it always seems that there is such a huge expectation to do something grand and it’s pretty hard to live up to expectations.

So, as a happy middle ground between a crazy party night and hiding in a corner, we ended up having some good friends over for Dinner and drinks. It was PERFECT. Our friend Stephen came up from from LA and Matt, Brian, Matt and Bill all came over to our place. We bought 2 Fondue pots and a 70s new years.. we made Beef, Pork, Cheese, and Chocolate Fondue and had cocktails. All that was followed up by an AMAZING Tiramisu and left over Cherry Yum Yum… Was GREAT… Just hung out and made a social event of cooking and hanging out with some of my best friends in the world…

The next day we did NOTHING.. was GREAT… Walked over to Tin Pan for breakfast with Stephen and relaxed the rest of the day… Last night kevin and I watched Pirates of the Caribbean while Stephen went out and… er.. um.. enjoyed San Francisco… 🙂

New Years Eve Pictures

GREAT new year…

As to resolutions – who knows.. Keep it together and smell the roses a little more..

News that Bugs…

Ok… So I read two news stories yesterday that bugged me and had to spout a little:

Special prosecutor named in CIA probe
Ashcroft bows out of blown-cover investigation

I’ve been wondering for a while what ever happened to this story but could guess. This one was TOTALLY predictable and pisses me off to no end. WHY are they just doing this NOW? (rhetorical question) The answer as far as I can tell is because the administration doesn’t care about figuring out who is responsible because they’re crystal clear on who ordered the leak. Furthermore, if they’re forced to ‘figure out’ who is responsible then they need some time to let the story cool and to find a sacrificial lamb.
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North Carolina Christmas

So i’m finally back to my usual schedule (kinda – still off work but got a lot to do so i’m workin anyway)… Christmas this year was fantastic but a little different than I’m accustomed to. As soon as I got back from Katie’s graduation I went into a whirlwind of activity. Had 2 days of work to do before Christmas with a TON to do for work, did ALL of my christmas shopping on a hour and a half lunch break on tuesday (the 23rd), had dinner with MY family tuesday night at The Waterfront Restaurant, and then packed for our trip.

But thats just where the fun began.
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Friday 5 (from last week)

1. List your five favorite beverages.:
   
   
   
   1. Milk
      
   2. Bailey’s
      
   3. Lemon Drop
      
   4. Bombay Sapphire and Tonic
      
   5. A Black and Tan
      
   
   
2. List your five favorite websites.:
   
   
   
   1. Der Spiegel
      
   2. Creative Cow
      
   3. Google News
      
   4. VersionTracker
      
   5. Slash-Dot
      
   
   
3. List your five favorite snack foods.
   
   
   
   1. Cheetos (Crunchey – not Puffy)
      
   2. Those Vegetable Chips (don’t remember the name)
      
   3. Wassabi Peanuts
      
   4. Those Japanese Crackers
      
   5. Twizlers! 🙂
      
   
   
4. List your five favorite board and/or card games.
   
   
   
   1. Trivial Pursuit
      
   2. Cranium
      
   3. Chess
      
   4. Solitaire
      
   5. Jenga
      
   
   
5. List your five favorite computer and/or game system games. (I really don’t play computer games so this is tough
   
   
   
   1. Sim City
      
   2. The Simms
      
   3. Spaceward Ho!
      
   4. MacXword
      
   5. Dark Castle (from LONG ago 😉 )