it's days like these that keep me on my winning streak

Tonight was chaotic and hectic, but ultimately it was very nice. We don't do a lot of presents so it's more about getting our family all together. But my cousin's son did like the Minnesota Wild hoodie that I bought him. My brother (who lives in South Korea) is on vacation in the Philippines and he brought his laptop & webcam with him so he could Skype with us. All the little kids wanted to know how he got into the computer. =)

Sadly, it was a bad day for Riley. He threw up a couple times, didn't eat anything and then spent most of the day sleeping. He's really not doing very good. =( We really wanted him to get through Christmas but now we're going to have to talk about putting him down. You can tell that he's lost a lot more weight just in the last two weeks. He doesn't wag his tail anymore and...well...it's just getting to be time. It's hard, but I know it's right. I don't want my poor baby to suffer.

Anyhow...I don't want to think about that right now. I want to watch some Doctor Who! Download faaaaaaaster!!

Two days with family down. One to go. I can handle that.

And no more pre-Christmas days at Hallmark.

I'm still stuffed full of prime rib. Tomorrow I'll be stuffed with Lebanese food. YAY!

Not much else to report, ( so here's some last.fm stats )

This weekend in a nutshell:
* I finished my holiday cards. I just need to slap stamps on them and send them out.
* I got a new car!
* I helped my parents set up about 8000 illuminated snowmen in their front yard. (Thankfully, they refuse to buy the blow-up ones.) We still don't have any snow here though.
* I went to the Half-Ass Jack gig at Nick's on Sat night, instead of the L.A. Guns show. There was the usual crowd of scary, drunk old people. auroram had the bonus of one of them sneering at her for no actual reason.
* I cleaned out my old car yesterday. Even though many of you have seen how messy it was, it actually didn't take that long to clean out. I moved only a small amount of actual car-related things into my new car. Everything else either was taken into my apartment or tossed in the dumpster. I'm okay with getting rid of the CD player since it was pretty crappy, but I am thinking of ripping out the speakers from the doors since one of the speakers on the Aveo seems to be somewhat wonky. They should be the same size. The car is getting donated to Volunteers of America and I guess they're picking it up sometime next week.
* I was going to actually do laundry, then realized that I'll be dog sitting for five days beginning on Wed. Why would I pay to do laundry when I'll be able to do it for free later in the week? Duh.

That's about it, I guess. Not very exciting. I bought floor mats, a steering wheel cover and other misc stuff for the new car. And other things for me. I only have one more Xmess present to buy, so it's okay to buy some things for myself.

I only have three days of work this week! Score!

( since everyone else is doing it...my xmas stocking )

( proof that I actually put my Christmas tree up )

DON'T FORGET!!
If you want to exchange cards, make sure I have your address in this post!