HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

hellooooo 2004!

it's so sad that all my email consists of mortgage lenders and store promotions. can we please start emailing each other again?

so this is really hard to be sitting here with the other two people in the office. my manager just took off because she doesn't want to be here. nice. i think i slept too much over the weekend...got too used to it. i've been fighting sleep all day. blah blah blah. christmas was good. good times, good family, good food. lots of food. why don't i have more leftovers? they replayed the 1999 women's world cup final last night. what a sweet game. the u.s. women's soccer team rocks. they're just so endearing. i have no point to this blog.

aaaand...i'm done babbling.

what a busy weekend. eventful. crazy. fun. and that's all i have to say about that.

it's not even 10:00am and i'm already at my desk. =O!! it's like the first time in two weeks that i actaully started working at 8:00am. wow. i'm a bad employee. so here i am blogging because i'm avoiding doing my timesheet because..well, i really didn't do much work last week. i hate that. well whatever. things are slow. i think i'm over that one for now.

is it just me, or does it not feel like christmas time?

on my way to work this morning, the radio people announced that the nba was going to start a "basketblog". doc rivers and some other dude were going to be the first ones to start. are people really gonna read this???

it seriously would not have mattered if i came into work yesterday. or even today. i'm completely not busy. if only i didn't have a commitment on tuesday nights...i would be boarding right now. ahhh..boarding. =) there's nothing like the feeling of sitting at the top of a run and then standing up to take the first run...and then the sinking feeling that you might suck cuz it's been almost a year since the last time you've done this. hehe. there's also nothing like psyching yourself out on the way up the chair lift that you're gonna bite it while trying dismount. *note to self: need to shorten leash.

remember when we were in tahoe and hong laughed at every single one of us falling off the chair lift, the whole time not knowing he had a gash in his shin that went down to the bone?

i miss our big boarding trips. BUT! i'm glad we can have these mini boarding trips to our cute michigan "mountains".

punctuation lesson of the day:

is it...

a) The drum was labeled "empty."

or

b) The drum was labeled "empty".

??????????????????????????????

it's that time of year when doorknobs get dangerous..

you know what i'm talking about: you approach the doorknob. you hesitate. *will i get shocked this time?* you reach to open the doo--bzzt!! of course you'll get shocked! it's december and it's cold and you've been dragging your feet along the carpet. i like how i tap the doorknob first with the back of my hand because of course it won't hurt as much if i use the back of my hand. =P it's really cool when you actually see the voltage. but then it's not so cool because that probably means that it hurt a lot.

i wonder if there are any preventative measures that can be taken to avoid shocks...

you guys remember edsel?

he makes it look so easy.

the camera-ing and editing is not so bad either. you'll need quicktime to view.

my throat hurts. it feels like i'm gonna get really sick. the last time this happened to me was when i was 13 and it was like the only day i ever stayed home sick in junior high.

in other news: we're having our quarterly office bbq today. (yay! free lunch!) every quarterly office bbq our office manager spends a good portion of the morning cooking (or man-cooking, aka grilling) for the entire office. i think that's so nice. cooking for someone says a lot. totally changes my perspective on him. huh.

in less thrilling news: ever since i've moved cubes, no one has stolen my box of tissues....*pause*... should i have just said that out loud?