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Format stolen from Dawnie.

1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
Move to California.

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t even remember if I made New Year’s resolutions. lol.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Umm, not that I’m aware of.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Not that I’m aware of.

5. What countries did you visit?
Just the good ol’ US of A. But I live here, so I suppose I didn’t really VISIT.

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
Less poundage, more $$ in my savings account, an iPhone.

7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

March 30 - I got to spend the entire night at the airport because 3 flights in a row were cancelled, and the flight the next morning was way too early to go home and go to sleep and wake up in time, so I had to hang out there.

May 14 - I left TX for Cali!

May 15 - Made it to Cali!

June 18 - Got a new job.

Nov. 7 - Dallas Stars @ San Jose Sharks (we won!)

Nov. 18 - went back to TX for Thanksgiving.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Finishing Joe’s afghan.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not saving more money!

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
A couple of colds, but nothing really awful.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My iPod Video

12. Where did most of your money go?
Paying off debt & yarn.

13. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Moving to California, Guitar Hero for the Wii, Dallas Stars vs. San Jose Sharks game, going back home for Thanksgiving.

14. What CD will always remind you of 2007?
Colors - Miser and It Won’t Be Soon Before Long - Maroon 5

15. Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder? happier

b) thinner or fatter? About the same.

c) richer or poorer? about the same, I think, but I’m getting a better handle on things.

16. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Talked to my friends more after I moved - I miss you guys!!, exercise.

17. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Eat.

18. How did you spend Christmas?
Joe and I went to his parents’ house to hang out. We were late to Christmas Eve Mass thanks to a miscommunication, and we slept through Christmas Day Mass. We exchanged presents, I talked to my mom, my sister, and my grandma, and we watched lots of movies. lol

19. How many one-night stands?
Well, aside from the one night-stand I bought, um, none. *heh heh.. yes, I AM that dorky!*

20. What was your favorite TV program?
Anything involving Gordon Ramsay - Hell’s Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares (the BBC version and the Fox version), also Pushing Daisies, CSI, Bones, and House.

21. What was the best book you read?
Thanks to the fact that I knit like crazy, I don’t really know what to tell you. Probably the last Harry Potter book.

22. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Ummmm, probably my rediscovery of Maroon 5. I don’t think there’s really been much going on for me musically this year. I’ve been too busy playing catch up on knitting podcasts.

23. What did you want and get?
To be with Joe!

24. What did you want and not get?
Umm, I don’t know.

25. What was your favorite film of this year?
I don’t know. We’ve seen a lot of movies this year. I think Superbad cracked me up the most… and American Gangster was really good. I think Joe would say Mr. Bean’s Holiday, which I enjoyed a lot more the 2nd time around.

26. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
We went to Hearst Castle for my birthday. It was awesome. We stayed in Morro Bay in a really quaint little hotel and had an awesome weekend. About a week and a half later, we went to a Stars game.

27. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A trip to Ireland, lol.

28. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
Jeans. And Corduroy pants.

29. What kept you sane?
Knitting.

30. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I couldn’t tell ya.

31. What political issue stirred you the most?
I don’t get stirred by politics.

32. Who did you miss?
My friends and family. My Rockstar knitting group!

33. Who was the best new person you met?
My new knitting group!

34. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
I-40 sucks.

Okay, so I finally have a video game that I am obsessed with. Yes, it’s Guitar Hero. Yes, it’s my bitch. On “Easy Mode” at least. *giggle*

I think I’m on the 5th or 6th section, and so far I’ve beaten Tom Morello & played an encore with him and I kicked Slash’s ass and played an encore with him. It’s so much fun. Joe calls me “Best Buy” because he says I look like the guy at Best Buy who’s always playing. lol. There’s just something about the game that turns you into a mindless zombie, but it RULES.

My Christmas was pretty good. My mom gave me a gift certificate to order some clothes, and everything ended up screwed up, so she sent me the code & I ordered my stuff early. It was difficult to find things at the site I ordered from, but I managed to find one or two cute things and order it in every color. lol!!

I’m soo tired right now. I can’t wait for this weekend. I’ve been WORKING at work, and I haven’t gotten any knitting time, and I didn’t even get time during my lunch because I was busy standing in line at the bank, depositing my Christmas money! lol

Oh well. I hope everyone had a Happy Merry, and that you have a Happy new Year!! Joe and I are going down to San Francisco, I think, and then we’re going to hang out w/ Joe’s BFF. Should be fun.

So Maroon 5 came out with a B-sides disc, and I downloaded it with iTunes, thanks to some gift card balance that I still had (Thanks, Dina..and uh, someone else. lol). I have to say that it is probably 7 of the best songs that I’ve heard in a long time.

Thanks, Dina & TC for getting me excited about Maroon 5 again. I hope you enjoy your copies.

Man, I have NOT been able to sleep for the last few nights. I just keep staying up later and later. It’s annoying, because I would really LIKE to sleep.

Part of the reason I can’t seem to get to sleep is the fact that it’s been cold the last few nights, so I haven’t been able to turn the fan on. I need the fan to sleep. For a while, I could sleep w/ my iPod on, playing a few instrumental tunes or podcasts with hosts who have soothing voices, but even those don’t help now. I go to bed, close my eyes, and the silence is deafening. So what am I doing now? Listening to podcasts and blogging a post that probably doesn’t make any sense at all. *lol*

I feel like I should be doing something productive, like maybe cleaning my corner by the couch, but I don’t want to make too much noise and wake Joe up.

I DID find my battery charger for my big camera yesterday. I think I’m going to dust that thing off and play with it for a bit. I want to get pics of our tree (I took one with the little camera, but haven’t uploaded it yet), and I need to take some pics of some yarn I just got as well as some projects I’m working on. I decided all of the knitting presents that I was going to knit for Christmas will end up turning into birthday or Christmas presents for next year, because I’m just not interested in driving myself nuts to get them finished.

I’ll try to post again tomorrow…err, later today, but if I don’t talk to you before then…

Here’s something to do with all of those Christmas cards after the holiday is over…. ornaments for next year!

PS: I’ve forgotten how much it RULES to be the receptionist and get gifties just for doing your job. hehehe

If I don’t talk to you before then, Merry Christmas!!! We just found out that instead of being open the half-day on Christmas Eve, we’re just going to close for the day. Rock on!!

Last night was my work Christmas party. I have to say that it was my first ever company function. lol. When I worked at the grocery stores, we’d have food in the break room or something, but never a big… to-do. When I worked at WAMU, I didn’t go to my first work party because of lack of transportation and the fact that I was not even going to think about getting a ride back from one of my drunk-ass coworkers. heheh. My last year there, I don’t think we even had one.

Anyway… so this was my first big work party, and it was very successful. Lots of people showed up. I think only like, 10 people who RSVP’d didn’t show up, so that’s pretty awesome, I think. I helped with some of it. Envelope stuffing and printing labels and alphabetizing stuff and things like that. It was enough of a help that I was mentioned as part of the thank you’s for helping with the party by my BigBig Boss. Whenever I would introduce Joe to people, though, it was a little embarrassing, but also very ego-boosting. The conversations sort of went like this:

ME: Hey, (insert name)!! This is Joe, my fiance. Joe, this is (so and so), they (do whatever).
COWORKER: Hi! It’s nice to meet you! Thank you for letting us have her 5 days a week!

or…

COWORKER: Ohh, we just LOVE her. She is so amazing and helpful!!
JOE: (Says something back)
ME: (Blushing) Ohh, thank you.

LOL. What the hell do you say to that?? I’m glad that everyone thinks I’m so awesome. I’m in a position now where I actually have things to do sometimes, and during the times that I do not… I sit and knit after trying everything else to look busy. LOL It’s nice that people think I’m such a great employee.

One of my co-workers’ husbands apparently LOVES me because he doesn’t have to hear about how horrible my closest coworker’s day was. ahahhah Apparently the receptionist before me did not do anything except answer the phone and that was IT. lol

It was fun. We didn’t win any prizes, and ONE person one TWO prizes (so not fair!), including the TiVo that everybody wanted!!

Oh well. Joe’s out finishing his Christmas shopping, and I just finished wrapping everything on my end. I’m about to go to the store and get the rest of the stuff I need to make Christmas cookies, and then I’m coming home to bake! Should be fun.

I have no time to blog.
Or actually, I suppose I should change that to no DESIRE to blog.

My really great ideas come at work, and I’m scared of getting everything blocked (seriously, I can’t access Flickr or any blogspot sites anymore) because it’s obvious that my company means business, heh, I won’t post at work. By the time I get home, I don’t really want to sit in front of the computer, and we’ve spent our last few weekends running around and traveling. So… that’s why I haven’t been here.

That, and the last couple weeks, when I DO get home, I’ve been knitting on Joe’s long overdue Christmas (2005) present. I finished it yesterday (since it’s 12:34 right now, lol) with 5 minutes to spare before the end of the day. I still need to take pictures, but it’s finished, and it’s lovely. But now? I need to go to bed!

If you haven’t noticed, I’m having a bit of Christmas cheer at the moment.

If you would like a Christmas card, please leave a comment! I’m trying to send them to people I already have addresses to, but if you want to make sure you’re on the list, let me know.

create your own personalized map of the USA

The only reason I haven’t counted Utah is because I haven’t actually been TO Utah. I fly over it all the time when we go to Dallas via Denver, but I’ve never stepped foot on its land.

I still need to upload pics from my camera from my trip. I’ve been knitting on Joe’s blanket, which is a huge deal. It’s been on my needles for 2 years, 4 months, and 6 days as of today. I’m currently finished with 8 color changes of 11. It’s getting so close. I did the last color change in less than a week. Since I’m actually working on it and so close to finishing it, all knitted Christmas presents are being pushed to the wayside until I finish this blanket, so any knitted Christmas presents will probably be New Year’s presents, or “HAPPY JANUARY or FEBRUARY!” presents, lol.