Holy shit.  I haven't updated this thing in, um, more than a year.  It's incredible how much my life has changed since my last post here.  Freaky freaky!  Definitely happier days.

Hmm...most of the goods are still at my main site but I guess I'll give you a fun pic to check out...

Me so pretty!

Had a great New Year's. Spent it at my cousin's place, and as always, it was a fun and crazy time. We've been addicted to playing 'Cranium' and we had a pretty big group of people playing. We had 4 teams and I was part of the U of I team, consisting of U of I graduates (who graduated in 4 years). Fatima and Vernon were excluded. We thought we were all hot and everything because we had 2 med students on our team. But we got our asses whooped. We were stuck in the same spot for the longest time. Did you know that Bruce Lee was a cha-cha champion in Hong Kong? We didn't. Well, I was thinking that he could have been, but I had answered so many questions wrong that when I started answering questions right my team no longer believed me. We did pull a remarkable comeback at the end, though, but not good enough! My theory for the loss was that the other players knew the only weakness that U of I students have - alcohol. We were so impaired we couldn't think right. Then again, the game took about 2+ hours, so I think everyone was a little impaired. But we had a lot of laughs, it was a good time!  Here's a pic of me and my Xanga homie, dedok.

I'm stuck in Connecticut for business.  BAH!  I'm here for the whole week.  It sucks!

Well, I was thinking that I'd have to cut sushi out of my diet because of my tight budget, but I forgot that clients pay for my meals when I'm out of town. Thank God for sushi in Connecticut! I'm in heaven!

I also stopped by Best Buy to get some X-Mas presents. It's one of the biggest Best Buys I've ever seen. I had the credit card things there. Why even bother signing them? It never looks like your signature anyway. It was the ultimate test of my willpower not to by anything for myself there.

Funny lunch conversation today. I was talking with my client, who's got 7 dogs, 3 cats, chickens, mules and horses, and we were discussing my dog, Ewok, and my rabbit, Luscious. I asked her if she had any problems getting them to interact together, and she usually no. Then she said that she used to have a rabbit, but one day...'I caught two of the dogs on top of the rabbit. It was a gangbang! They were taking turns holding the ears of the rabbit down down while the other was in the back, going on like there was no tomorrow.' WTF! It was hilarious, like something out of some black market prison animal porn. And I would never have thought this lady would have even KNOWN the word gangbang!

Well, Saturday was our company party, and it was held at Bob Chinn's in Wheeling.  Before going out there, we stopped by Golf Mill to buy our gift exchange gifts.  That place has really changed.  Here's me with my friends Sully and Stitch.

The office party itself was tons of fun.  I had a couple drinks before we sat down to eat, and when we were led to our table, I was talking with Sam's fiance, and I didn't realize that although I saved a seat for Sam, someone had taken the seat I saved for myself.  So I looked around for another seat at the table.  None.  Not one seat at the table with all my friends.  So I looked down, and the only seat open was the one next to the company president.  I panicked, and tried to figure out how tipsy I was.  Pretty tipsy!  But I went down to sit next to him, and he puts his hand over the seat and said 'Anyone can sit here but Christine'.  Aww...rejected by even the president!  So then I say 'Sorry, there's nowhere else to sit.  And anyway, we need to talk about giving me a raise!'   After saying that, I realized it was a ballsy thing to say, and he could have fired me on the spot.  But fortunately, he laughed.  *sigh of relief*

He was in a great mood that night, so I really had nothing to worry about.  It was just weird to be eating next to the president and across from the vice president.  It was cool, too, though.  I was happy that he laughed at my jokes, and that I didn't have any problems with my motor skills.  He bought my group these plastic fish jackets, which were at the moment really cool to have, but no way am I ever wearing it in public.  But maybe I'll wear it around the office.  My VP knows Bob Chinn, so he came by our table to talk with her, and gave her some free scallop sashimi.  He offered for me so try it.  So I took a piece of ginger and put it in my mouth.  And then he said 'No, you must eat the ginger and scallop together!'  So I take some of the scallop, and put it in my mouth.  And he's like 'No, together!'  And I'm nodding, because they ARE together, in my mouth, and I can't talk.  But he just shook his head and kept on talking to our VP.  Oh well!

Afterwards, a small group of us went out to another bar.  I was at my 'I've -drank-enough-alcohol-so-I'm-gonna-rock-at-pool' stage.  I rocked the house playing pool!  All in all, it was a good night.

Ahh...I'm back home from my trip to Washington DC.  I really hate taking these spur of the moment trips because there's so much crap that I leave undone at home!  But DC was nice, even though I didn't get to do much sightseeing.  During lunch one day I walked over to the White House.  I'm really proud of myself in that I didn't get lost.  I ALWAYS get lost.

I'm also pretty happy that I was able to take the DC subway, the Metro, and not get lost.  The Metro is a lot nicer than the CTA.  It's quieter, the seats are softer, and the tunnels are these huge alien-like looking caverns.  It looks pretty cool.

So my manager comes up to me today all sheepish and says, 'Hey, do you want to go to Denver?'  And I say, 'When?'  And he says 'Uh, today...'  So I laugh in his face.  'DUDE!  I just got back yesterday!'  'OK, I thought that would be your answer.'

Sheesh.  They can't just throw these assignments on me like that.

My coworker just came up to me and asked me if I've done something new with my hair.  I told him that I was late and I had to blowdry it and I wore my ghetto hat, so my hair is all fucked up.  Then he said, 'No, it looks really great like that.'  Wow.  That ghetto hat works wonders.  Maybe I'll just wear it all the time.