well, since i AM the person of the year, i suppose it is my obligation to pacify the masses with some words of wisdom.

those Time articles were actually pretty interesting. and they also pointed out that there is a wacky variety of people out there. i must say as a new little myspace user i am especially fascinated by the constant interaction of everyone that i never realized was such a huge aspect of people's lives. and that's just the myspace losers, not even the superior friendster users (at least that's what i hear). myspace makes me realized how one-sided blogging can be, but maybe that's because hardly anyone i know is very blod-friendly. it's a good thing i caved and finally signed up, or i would have been decades behind (not just months to years). and those utube boys! oh such a heartwarming story. i have to say i haven't explored the depths of utube that much, but i did look up some square one mathnet episodes once. "square one! do do do do do, do do dooooooooo. square one! do do do do do, do do dooooooo..."

in other news, one of the reasons that i finally broke down and posted something is because chris is supposed to be picking me up from work and i've been waiting a really long time. oh well, i needed some quality computer-catch-up time and some phone time. that was after i borred someone's car to go go fred meyer (which portlanders call "freddie's"). the holidays were pretty uneventful for us; i worked on christmas so we didn't do much. it kind of snuck up on us this year because we didn't do much to prepare for it. although we did decorate the wine tree again, only this time we added the extra special touch of freshly cut juniper greens (from our dying bushes in the front yard.

speaking of those bushes...they are these crazy overgrown bushes that are about the end of their lifespan, no amount of pruning or tlc is going to make them attractive. before we moved in they were covering the entire sidewalk so they previous owner just cut back one side of them with a chainsaw or something. so now the dead 75% of the bush underneath the top layer is all exposed and it's ridiculous. our crazy neighbor (that's another post all together) was going to help us out with cutting them down but he has a crappy chainsaw and after every other cut the chain falls off. it's a neon yellow and purple chain saw, i wonder if that says anything about its quality. anyway, the bottom line is that we need to hire some lawn service to take two hours to remove them and turn them into wonderful mulch.

i don't know why i got off on that tangent...whoa. oh yeah, christmas. well, i guess there's not really much else to say about that. chris got me a massage chair thing (well not a chair, a pad that you set in a chair). so awesome. and very addictive.

we're taking care of a certain friend's dogs this week. i may have compared it in the past to taking care of a couple of retarded children. i've never taken care of a couple of retarded children, but i imagine it could be somewhat similar. except maybe the children wouldn't have horrible gas and an accident in the house.

what the crap, blogger won't switch my account to their new and improved version. maybe it's because i'm only a fair weather user. ah, the pain of rejection.

so oregon is having some freaking rainy weather, the power went out at work tonight, just after i finished typing a case summary. so i lost it all and that was awesome. at least our fluid pumps have battery power and the power came right back on. i guess there are supposed to be pretty high winds that blow a bunch of stuff over tonight. well part of my fence already blew over so take that weather...too little too late.

oh the pain

i finally broke down and made a myspace page. i feel so dirty. but i guess that's the only way to keep up with all the crazy people nowadays. ARRRRRRRRRRGH!! anyway. it's not like i'm keeping in touch with anyone here since i'm such a slacker. SLAAAAAAAAAAAACKER!!

defeat hurts bad, so bad.