with every good thing there is some bad.

good thing #1:
i wanted to get my dad a business card scanner for christmas. yesterday i got one free from work!

bad thing #1:
i overdrew my bank account by $436.52. that is real bad. i don't understand how i have the best paying (if not the only paying) job of all my friends and i am the one that is always broke! holy crap it is gonna be a dollar store christmas.

good thing #2:
i won a $250 dollar gift card from best buy at work today. maybe it wont be a dollar store xmas after all.

bad thing #2:
dinner last nite was torture. my uncles girlfriend it the worst. it was so uncomfortable i almost had to leave. they have been together about a year. i havnt really liked her off the bat. i hate to be a girl hater - but she is so awful. i wont launch into detail too much, but last nite she spent dinner talking about when they are married and birthing their children. i'm sorry, but in my family these are not subjects to be brought up in front of my grandmother with out a ring on your finger. i thought poor nana was going to faint. man, that was awful.

i know with the current status of my checking account i shouldn't be going out...but its wednesday! luna then wherever later

last nite theresa and i ordered chinese and settled down for my guiltiest of pleasures - The Gauntlet.i drove from her house on Bryant to pick it up at that place on the corner of Elmwood and Delavan. When i got it back to her house i noticed the veggie mooshu i ordered was chicken mooshu. i called and they offered to deliver which was badass. theresa was excited at the prospect of more left overs. but when i went downstairs to meet to deliveryman - he asked me for the other back. i find this bizarre. what was he going to do with it? gross

i was awakened at 5am to my room shaking and pounding with music and dancing. i hate my housemates. hate. them. seriously - 5am on monday? what the hell. i don't want to be the cranky neighbor, but this is ridiculous.

cecilias tonite for matt's bday (my uncle.) i can think of nothing better for a 25th bday present the Trapped in The Closet Volumes 1-12

eread Less Than Zero today. i havnt read it in a long time. i think the first time i read it i didn't really grasp it, because now that i just read it again i am so blown away. it is wierd how that happens. different life experiences make you identify so much more with something that was just 'good' before.
anyways. today i did the tree thing as well. for whatever reason my mother felt the need to get one for the upstairs living room and the down stairs family room. this seems fairly unecessary to me. i got a small tree for the apartment as well. i wanted to get a normal full size douglas fir - but the idea of transporting it in the colbalt back to buffalo and moving the furniture etc. for it seemed more trouble then its worth. i ended up with something a little more charlie brownish. i will provide photos when i am home and it is decorated.
ps - don't leave (e:jason)

in rochester tonite. needed a break . something about coming to my parents house that is soo soothing. seeing my parents together, seeing my puppy, my brothers... is it wierd to miss home at 23? maybe i just miss good food and a thermostat turned past 58.
last nite we did tudor , hardware, pink - the usual friday sequence. i skipped out on the party on highland with the girls to hang out with the boys. bad idea. i kinda regret it. tudor just annoyed me. there is only so many times i can hear harrington sing 'Obsession' at karoke. the girls said the party was fun too, like a broadway joes renuion from the old days.

another brief story about how ridiculous my job is. the man in the cubicle next to me sneezed earlier. i said " god bless you." he acutally complained to HR about my religious propaganda. my manager pulled me aside and told me to watch what i say. wow. a few minutes ago the sneezer informed me that i can say "may the druids watch over your spirit" next time he sneezes. i told him i didn't appreciate his satanic black magic viewpoints.

i also just got back from a training in the new IPAQ's coming out. i'm obsessed. i never realized how bad i needed a pocket pc until today.

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