well i spose it's that time again.
first and foremost, a very late happy new year to everyone out there that i know and love. i hope that 2005 is wonderful to everyone.
now with that said, i can move on to much more important things.

i had thought about doing a year-in-review, much like the one that radioacc had done, but that was way too much effort than i was willing to put out. if you're really interested in what transpired over the last year of my life, you can go through my calendar.

christmas was good. my brother came home. per annual tradition, my mother, brother,and i attended the atlanta ballet's nutcracker at the fox theater. opened presents and got lots of goodies. fulfilled another annual tradition of christmas breakfast at waho. spent the rest of the day watching the lord of the rings: the return of the king, the extended version. had christmas dinner in fondue fashion. it was good. a TON of food. spent the day after recovering, and saw phantom of the opera which was incredible. i'm trying to drag katieeb1 to see it, so i'll be able to see it again. then on the following monday, promptly boarded a delta plane that took me into tampa international to see amber!! spent a great 3 days with her, tooling around in her awesome mini. she and my brother have now inspired me to get my own. more on this later.

came back in time for new years, but i was a party pooper and only wanted to go out for dinner and stay with the bf's roommates for midnight. i was still out of sorts from travelling and the thought of going to 3 parties and then back up to norcross for midnight was just a little daunting for me. i did NOT get trashed like i did last year. i did that at the PWC christmas party. which if i haven't mentioned already, a ton of fun.
then it was time to go back to work :( , it was tough, but who could complain after getting almost 2 weeks off for the holiday?

ok, so my goal this year. ok one of my goals this year, is a particularly selfish one. ok well, all my goals are particularly self-involved, but most them serve to make me a better person. well not this one. this one serves to make me look damn good behind the wheel. haha, how corny. anyway, i've decided, after amber had shown me the error of my ways, to purchas a mini cooper s. SUPER CHARGE WOO HOO! anyway, they're super cute and super cheap. i can get the s model, in automatic, with the packages i want, with the navigation system for about 25. not too shabby. all the small suv's that i'd been looking START at base price around that. this past saturday, i dragged my bf out to the mini dealer just to get a look at some that they had on the lot, and i introduced myself to the lady that handled my brother's car, and i will be emailing her shortly to get the ball rolling. but first i have to take care of a few things with my current car..like fix the damage that the bastards over at kauffman tire caused to my hood. IF YOU'VE EVER CARED ABOUT ME A SINGLE OUNCE IN YOUR LIFE, NEVER TAKE YOUR CAR TO KAUFFMAN TIRES AGAIN! OR IF YOU DO, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A PICTURE OF YOUR CAR IN THE CONDITION THAT IT WENT IT, AND THEN DON'T LEAVE UNTIL YOU'VE INSPECTED IT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE GETTING IT BACK IN THE SAME CONDITION. yeah i'm just a little bitter. anyway, so red mini, here i come!

work is going well, it got really slow at the end of the year, but it's picking up now, and i'm starting to get back to the pace that it was when i first started. it's a lot of paper chasing and answering stupid phone calls, but every once in a while, you see someone get hired that you helped in that process, and it's a nice feeling.

love dept is going well, although, his job will be keeping him busier than before, he'll be having to work a lot of saturdays, and he won't be getting back from out of town until friday nights, so that's going to be interesting. hopefully, after his busy season, we'll be able to go on the cruise we've been planning for a while now. and hopefully, our friends will be able to come too!

oh and the premier(s) of 24 are finally on, and this season looks to be a lot more interesting than last season. if anyone watches it, does chloe bother anyone else as much as she bothers me? she's always so unpleasant and miss know-it-all. and i have a sinking feeling that the debbie character is a sort of replacement for the whiny-let me fuck up every which way i can kim character.

ok well i guess that's enough for now. up next...MY BIRTHDAY!!!