happy (belated) new year!

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happy new year!

hmmm... rather belated, naturally. how did i ring in this new year of 2006? has it been that long already? my mom was right... the years are just flying by. i got to spend time with family for the new year. my mom & dad finally flew in on the 29th of january after a bit of a scare/delay on the 24th. now they are a mere 2 hours away. ah... relief. and after seeing him i feel much better, even though he was insanely tired and getting weird side effects from his medicines. i sometimes am affected by weird panic alert moments. when i scamble and wonder
. o O (where's my phone!? what if my mom's called? where's my phone?!)
i've been in a panic mode since.... mid-november, i believe. was that when it all occurred? end of november?
::heavy sigh of relief::
and i was able to see erika and vince (who gave me the most kickin' wustoff knife set for christmas!).

::RESOLUTIONS::

• learn mandarin (almost the same as last year, except last year was cantonese)
• keep craft room clean and operational
• do more art
• do more craft
• do more photography
• do more illustration
• is this too much? i am doomed to failure already?
• i hope not
• eat healthy
• work out more
• buy more clothes
• buy more shoes
  
• learn to invest
• vacuum more
• go camping with craig in the ocala forest
• ok, that last one wasn't really a resolution *teehee*
• hi craig!
  

then for the new year, anthony and i got to take a few days off! it was soso lovely. days of sleeping in and breakfasts and meandering and shopping and spending of our christmas gift certificates. lots of space ghost coast to coast, harvey birdman: attorney at law, the new buffy box set and the office (bbc version). can i say that the office is so completely awesome? it was almost too much at times to listen to david brent - he was driving me to drink (chianti, thanks saad!).

last night was la creperia with rachel & lisa, inadvertently ran into star & david. went to mema's. saw memoirs of a geisha, which was pretty good. i did feel that they either should have had the movie in fluent japanese or has um, more training on english for their asian actors. it felt stilted and inauthentic because of the heavily accented voices. then again, as anthony noted, they used a lot of chinese actors despite the storyline being in japan, so whatever. gotta love the movie industry.

oh, and saw king kong, which i also enjoyed. man, these holidays were a time for movie-watching. sideways (eh... not so great, except for the part where sandra oh smashes one of the character's faces in with her bike helmet!). the merchant of venice. indiana jones & the last crusade. read 'the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' not bad.

ho hum, ho hum... saw a hockey game. maybe i'll post pictures. tampa lightning vs the boston bruins. i got a monster bag of cotton candy!!

ooo! oo! i am also working on my graduate application! i was going to send it tonight, but my car registration is in my car, which is at rachel's house. argh! so it will have to be sent monday evening.

and with that, i go to bed. it is 11:30 and i have to work tomorrow. as you can imagine, i am looking forward to it with all of my heart. all of my joys, all of my hopes... ... fuck, well, hello chianti!