Oh nos, another new year...

and I haven't made any resolutions. Yet. This a major departure for me, usually I write these things down weeks in advance of New Year's Eve. Now how will I be able to harshly judge my failures without a written record of things I haven't accomplished?

Anyway, my belated list;

1. Travel

2. Get back into activism, 2 years is more than to recover from my burnout.

3. New hairstyle every 6 weeks

4. Get those prints framed

5. Come up with better resolutions.

Ah, the winter cold...

Finally, an excuse to behave as poorly as I dreamed of.  I am justified in showing late to work, sitting in front of my screen and drooling, taking copious amounts of sedatives, eating salty junk food 'cause it's the only thing I can taste and sleeping for 12 hour stretches.  Not only is this behavior forgivable, it's good for me!  So, other than feeling like shit, this is great!

Other things I want for Xmas

Platinum blond hair and an asymmetric bob.
A red cardigan that's actually soft.
Attitude.
Someone else to paint the bathroom.
A second rabbit to be the current rabbit's pet.  A guinea pig with long ears is also acceptable.

All I want for Christmas

A Qubus Little Joseph candle holder, and...

image via Salon Store

a Wonderland Lady candle holder found on Speranza Design Gallery.

New Year's Resolutions

Happy New Year!  My quest for Babycham continues...

And yes, it is back in stock at BevMo online, I just don't want to order it, shipping's too high.

Hanging out in Benice

which is how my dear friend, E, pronounces Venice. So now we all say it that way.
Anyway, now is the time I discuss post Xmas shopping; the stores were empty. I don't we have ever gotten through the lines faster than this weekend. Target, Best Buy, the Rack, all places usually packed to the gills, we were able to move free through the store and then zip through the check out. We even got our new car stereo installed during our Best Buy/ Target outing in less than two hours.

We finally have a radio in our fly ride. Is "fly" the right word? The car came with these crazy rims on it, and tinted windows, but the CD player broke down a few days after we got it. But now it's back up and running with the 2nd cheapest (the cheapest was sold out) stereo Best Buy had to offer. And I have discovered the loud function!

I guess the lesson here is that recession are great so along as your home maintains its dual, full time, income status. With excellent benefits.

post xmas

It's finally over! I've already throw out the "live" tree and it's not even 11AM yet. I am keeping the pink tinsel tree up until Jan. 1st. How can I not? It's shiny, and shiny things make me happy.
We got to spend Xmas eve at a really nice hotel in San Diego, one of the many gifts to ourselves. Well, we got to sleep there, and dine at the penthouse. Actually the evening was spent con la familia Aquino. Xmas day was spent with my family. We sat around the dinner table and fondly remembered our favorite TV shows and movies together, the Simpsons, Twilight Zone, Betty Boop, Full Metal Jacket, the Day the Earth Stood Still (both versions), the Blob (both versions), and The Tingler. Good times had by all.

2 Valium + 1 and 1/2 martinis =

Total loss of balance, apparently. And lots of vomiting. Now I understand what they mean about the pills intensifying the effects of alcohol. Usually when I'm that kind of drunk, there's a feeling of desperate urgency and pleading with the booze gods that I'll just make it through the night. Not this time. I didn't care, I knew I would be fine. Despite the inability to walk.

The good news is that you don't care that you're throwing up, you're not upset about it. It doesn't even taste bad, not that it taste great, but you're kind of like "whatever body, why do you always try to be so dramatic?"
The other upside is that there's no accompanying hangover, because you can't imbibe that much before you get to the point of no return. And I think I threw up all the booze.

BTW, all this took place at the fun Xmas party. And the real loss of balance didn't occur until I got home.

Work Christmas Party

It was actually fun-ish.  We were both very shocked by this.  

Things I will do in 09

I will install more memory on my computer. Myself. Which means I might wind up buying a new computer in the end...

I will organize my desk(the one at work), keep it that way, and acquire more chotchkeys to display.

I will take better care of the house plants and house pets. They'll go from well taken care of to ridiculously pampered. I wonder if I can carry my rabbit and peace lilly in my purse into the Rack, like those tiny dog girls do... and if I do, does it have to be a Juicy Couture bag?


I will discover someway for two people to continue to live a studio, as they have for the past three years, to find more space to store their stuff. And possibly find some room for a second bunny.

I will get a second bunny. They're so tiny, for a while anyway, and the one we have right now is lonesome. I will acquire this creature in 09, do you understand M? I promise to get a real smart one this time, that will fully understand the concept of the litter box.
Why look there's Baby New Year right there!  At the bottom of this post!

All I really want for Xmas...

is for M to help me reupholster the sofa and always mix resin and molding compound for me.  The other things she's given me so far are very nice, but the gift of service is always the most meaningful.  Willingness to dismantle a couch, hold fabric tight while I use a staple gun dangerously close to her tiny hands, and struggling to put the whole thing back together again just says "I love you more than my personal safety and emotional well-being."  The most beautiful eleven and a half words in the English language.

X-mas party #1

Okay, this was the first Christmas party/dinners of the season, I only have 5 left;

1. My work X-mas party
2. The fun X-mas party
3. Our X-mas party/ gift exchange 
4. M's parents' X-mas eve party
5. Dinner with my parents 

I doubt any of these other parties are going to include full sized bottles of vodka and brandy.  Per table.  With about 7 people per table.  At about 20+ tables.  That's a lotta booze, even for me.  I've never seen anything like, it was like an open bar for lazy, hardcore alcoholics.   The party started at 6PM, no one really got there until, about 7 , by 8 everyone had that boozy walk, and by 9:30, the time we left, supervisors were giving slurred speeches to their underlings.  

After witnessing all this I had two revelations, 1) I don't ever want to work for the county(though I'm sure I will at some point, *sigh*), 2) I want to drink less.  I didn't get drunk, or suffer a hangover, or embarrass my self, but suddenly, somehow, drinking finally lost its glamour.  Kind of like finding out Santa's not real.  My ability to drink has become a party trick, I drink a lot to shock my friends by still being semi-coherent.  Well, I'm tried of being a one trick pony.  I need a new useless skill.  But one that makes me feel like a tough guy.  

And I hope this what my new found semi-sobriety looks like;

I've got another X-mas party to attend!

This one is for M's work. She has promised to introduce me as her wife/partner to her coworkers. Some of them already know about me, some have actually seen me, but the rest know of me only as her roommate.
Anyway, I feel like a debutante. But what's a girl to wear? Its supposed to be dressy, so which dress do I wear? Black or cream? Sleeves or no sleeves? Long or short? Right now I'm leaning toward my longer, flapper style dress, with very high heels, since her supervisors will be there... but I'm not sure. Any suggestions dear readers( and by readers I mean M and E, my only two readers)?

Fuck yeah!

It's already Thursday! Oh, the work week is almost over. Last week was a short work week, which means things piled up around the office, which means I'm actually busyish, which means time just seems to fly. This why Fall/Winter is the best time of the year, my birthday, Halloween, Thanksgiving holiday, Christmas holiday, and New Year's. It makes the beginning of the actual new year such a let down though. No more days off, no gifts, no candy and slightly less boozing. What a disappointment to wake up on January 1st, your home full of newly acquired items, back in the habit of staying up all night and sleeping in, to then realize that you're going back to work the next day and you're going to go a long time without that intoxicating combination of holidays, gifts, food, and hooch. The only bright side is that I get a whole set of sick hours, or mini holidays as I call them.