* Had a very unsuccessful attempt at making gingerbread cookies this afternoon. Wasn't pretty. :rofl:

* Had a very unexpected and great chat with a friend this afternoon. :loveshowe:

* Very happy there was a new episode of Monk on the tube tonight.

I think I'm awake but not sure.

Last day of retail hell............is it over yet?

I'm behind perving Pixies, I'm behind on emails, I'm behind wrapping gifts, I keep telling myself it will all work out no matter what all I'm behind on, I'm gonna enjoy the next 2 days if it kills me and then go back to retail hell at 6am on the 26th.

1. I'm having a lot of trouble getting into the mood for the holidays so today I decided to stop trying. I turned on my fave alt. rock music to finish baking by. I decided to go ahead and miss the people who are not with me. I am accepting that my kids got outside gifts (bikes,skateboards,scooters) and there is a 90% chance of rain Monday.

2. My oldest is helping me with the cookies and it's one of the few things he will tolerate me for at his age. I've made 6 kinds and I'm scrambling to find more to make so I can keep him near for even just a few more batches.

3. My new haircut was a mistake.

1. I'm sitting on the floor of an airport, surfing off of free wireless, and presently realizing just how hard concrete floors are.

2. Like Lil I'm struggling to catch the spirit, I have moments, but that's just it, they literally are moments.

3. I really need some snow to lift my mood - its 12/23, I'm in the Northeast and we haven't seen snow, well since last winter. Today, for our celebration of Festivus, we are greeted with rain and well rain.

* One of my best friends is bringing his new girlfriend over tonight so I can meet her. :)

* Got to do a bunch of cleaning here at the house to make it at least appear that I'm not a complete slob before they get here. :yikes:

* No idea at all what I'll cook them for dinner. He told me that he's bragged to her that I'm a really good cook so I guess a frozen pizza is out of the question. :rofl:

1. Maybe IowaMan should go pick up one of those frozen dinners he was bragging about from Sam's Club. :)

2. I've been here at work in a VERY quiet office for an hour and have only done personal crap instead of trying to tackle the pile on my desk. ;)

3. I wish it would snow. I woke up to rain, rain, rain this morning...which promptly lulled me back to dreamland. :D

You know, I was really thinking about doing that IAKG, I've already got one in the freezer. Just talked with my friend though and they won't be able to make it tonight. His lady friend is a little under the weather I guess. My best guess is that means horny and they'll spend their evening having a lot more fun than they would've over here. :rofl:

I'm horny as :D

I could really go a MMF with an extra F on top :D

I'm, at present, really wishing my sister took both my kids on holiday :D

- I'm not really feeling the holiday. Not being a total Scrooge or anything, but everyone else around me is able to enjoy things I can't right now, mostly because of time, space and money. Tourists and crowds are annoying me, holiday marketing is already overkill, getting sick sucks, having to work extra pisses me off and I have to make sure I meet rent at the end of the month...so I can't go crazy like I'd like to...now, I appreciate what's going good for me and all that, but I'll appreciate it more after January 2nd when everything's come back down to eye level and days are just "days" instead of "events."

- Meeting old coworkers who came into town later tonight for drinks...I love these guys, but for the reasons above, I'm not going to get into it as much as I would've if things were different. Plus, they chose to meet at the company watering hole in Midtown, where everything is fucking expensive. If I were still two days into my sickness I could've signed out of it.

- I sound like I'm a total grouch, but all I really want/need is some space away from the negative-generating energies...until I brush some dirt off my shoulder and can enjoy some time out in the places I enjoy like I like it.

1. I am wearing one of my Christmas presents, and it sparkles.

2. I am operating on little sleep. Not a good idea to see the 10:00 movie on a night you have to be at work the next morning, especially if said movie ends up being about 2-1/2 hours long.

3. I want to go home. No one here is working except me, anyway. :)

1. I can't wait to show my son that I'm smarter than his ipod! :D

2. I'm so glad we have tons of leftovers.

3. I made a sacrificial offering to the kitchen gods yesterday and it's difficult to type without making 731452685 mistakes. I'm worried about frying my backspace key.

1 used a buddies trip hammer for a project today

2 cleaned up my office

3 I hear a piece of cherry pie calling Eat me! Eat me!!

1- Doing some general file cleaning and computer maintenance, I managed to delete a few hundred OS root directory files. :yikes:
(actually I did that last night)
The next few hour of stark fucking terror was spent trying to find a way to boot my computer. :fix:

2- Today I carried my HD to my computer at work and installed it as a slave drive to possibly gain access to some of my data. :wobbly:

3- The gods smiled on me. :D

1. I just found out that there is "instant" cider. Add hot water and stir.

2. I'm glad I got Ryan the x-mas present he really wanted. There is nothing better than seeing such a huge smile.

3. I'm going to be eating x-mas leftovers for days....

1. Ya, I've complained I'm tired but I'll say it agian.......I'm wore out.

2. Trying to figure out which is worse, the stress of working up to Christmas or the 2 days of Christmas and working after.

3. My brain was not thinking today.