Well...

Christmas has come and gone, and what a Christmas it was!

It would have been perfectly fine and uneventful, if it had not been for my main desktop computer deciding to peter out and crash on us. I still have no idea what could possibly be wrong with it. A virus, a Trojan horse, a malfunctioning motherboard? Who knows! I am half hoping that I can fix the problem and get it to work again, and half wanting to go out and buy another new computer. Thank goodness for my sister's laptop. I don't think I could make it more than three or four days without internet access, if only to delete all the junk mail sitting in my mailbox before it fills up and starts bouncing back messages.

I guess the most important thing is: if you have any files at all that you even remotely consider precious, for God's sake, back up those files!!! I learned the hard way when I almost cried myself to sleep thinking about all those files I could have lost (including those episodes of Desperate Housewives I almost lost!) I swear, I gained more than my fair share of new grey hairs in the past few days, and I just turned 26 about an hour ago (well, technically, I think I was born around 8 am, so I guess I could consider myself 26 at that point.) Great, another thing to get stressed and depressed about! :-(

Countdown

Well, it's almost here...
It's gonna be antoher Christmas soon. Unfortunately, either because of the lack of snow here in Western Washington, or the fact that I've worked at Hallmark for two Christmas seasons, I've not been into the Christmas spirit very much. It's usually my job to decorate the Christmas tree, and I have not even put up all the ornaments on it (it's still servaceable though).
But I don't think it's just me. Except for our across the street neighbors, barely anyone in our neighborhood has put up Christmas lights. Sure, most of the kids in our neighborhood have all grown up and are starting to drift away (I'm still here though...), but there's something to be said about tradition. I remember when our neighborhood looked like the landing strip at SeaTac airport. Candy Cane land was one of the most popular things in our neighborhood (well, except for that one grinch of a family that lived right in the middle of the cul-de-sac that never put any lights up (sorry to this family if they are Jewish or some other religion/nationality that doesn't celebrate Christmas).
Even the malls don't seem that Christmasy anymore. Maybe it's the overzealous PC world we live in. Maybe it's the downturn in the economy since the overindulged 80's. Maybe it's just me becoming old and cynical in my old age (more about that in my next post about the wonders of turning into a 26 year old sad virgin!).

Hopefully someday, when I have an "accident" or purposefully adopt a child, I can go back and relive the glory days of Christmas, but maybe not.

Oh, and by the way, I do know that the true spirit of Christmas has to do with the birth of Jesus and all that jazz, but as I am agnostic, I tend to celebrate the season with rampant commercialism, mixed in with the spirit of giving and good cheer.

Anyways, eventhough I am jaded, I hope that most of you out there have a Merry Christmas.

My co-workers

I'd just like to apologize to Brenda now for being so overly critical of my fellow co-workers for not knowing the meaning of "camp" and "kitsch."

I just thought these two words would have been a part of the English lexicon by now, but I guess it hasn't permeated into society as a whole yet. And I never realized how hard it was to explain these two terms without showing it to them first hand. I think they still don't understand.

I love you Brenda like the symbiotes that we are, but I am still in deep shock that these two terms have never made it into your vocabulary.

O.K., I better get back to work now. Ahhh, the busy life of an RT(R).

First evah post!!!

Well, what a way to start off my new world of "blogging" (is that even a word? Well, I typed it up, so now it is one of my words!) Do not mind the cheesey (not "campy" or even "kitchy," which, BTW, I am still in shock over having my co-worker firends not know the meaning of!!!) title to my first ever post. I am kinda in a rut, as my previously stated co-worker friends want me to watch movies like "White Chicks" and "Deuce Bigelo, Male Gigolo" and the like. But you wanna know something... Even though I act all high brow and would gladly pop in "Nights of Cabreria" any day, I do have this "guilty pleasure" spot for stupid comedies like the "American Pie" trilogy.

Oh, I'm also kinda in a rut because I am gonna be 26 at the end of the month, and to quote Roxie Hart from Chicago: "I'm older than I ever intended to be."
To crib a plot line from my favorite show (ever in the history of my watching television) Will & Grace, my five pillars are in a rut. Well, not entirely, but you know...
So let's go over them shall we?

1. Career: Well, O.K., I got a new career going on this year since I graduated from x-ray school, and I have a great, well paying job at a hospital. So I guess this is OK.
2. Family: O.K., this pillar isn't doing too bad either, as I still live at home with parents who won't kick me out any time soon, with little to no rent to pay. A roof over one's head and "free" food, what is more cushy than that? Well, I do hope to move out within the next few years.
3. Friends: O.K., now here comes the tragedy... I have one good friend from my old job with whom I have not spoken to for weeks, and a few friends from high school that I've lost contact with since my sophomore year at college. So that leaves a motley bunch of co-workers who don't know the meaning of "camp" and "kitch." I guess things could be worse, but it's pretty low.
4. Health: Don't even get me started here! From the bouts of IBS, constant stuffy nose, and terrible sleep apnea (before my bi-pap machiene, I was waking up from sleep about twice a minute, and not even knowing it). Then there is the terrible eczema, headaches, well, let's just say I'm not the healthiest of individuals...
5. Love Life: Non-existant. And If I do fall for someone, of course it's with someone who is unattainable. Cupid has not been very kind.

So in summary, 2 out of 5! Great.
Hopefully the coming new year will be better.

Anyway, I hope this gives you all a little taste of who I am.

Caio!