Wow....that was awesome Harpreet...read his comment on his last entry. I think we should all email him to get funny things like that said on a somewhat daily basis for our amusement. Harpreet should definately write a xanga....dun dun dunnn.....dooo it..

So Christmas has been a blast. My family played games for 3 days straight, interuppted by a few fights as every Christmas needs (and would be expected for 4 people confined to a table for 72 hours).

On a somewhat related note, I love giveing presents, but never know how to receive them. What is the believable amount of interest and appreciation for something you're not sure you want or don't really think is pretty. Should I just suck it up and say thank you then never wear it, or pretend at the time, and ask for a receipt at a later time. I would hope people would tell me....damn that's ugly liberachi. why did you ever get it for me? what were you thinking!? Ok mayble not that harshly, but I think i'd want to know. Along those lines, i got my mom a banana hammock cuz it's just funny and she said a while ago that they were the stuipdest invention she'd ever seen. It was cheap and only a gag, and it was from santa, so she got really nice really cool presents from me too. she didn't think it was as funny as lindsey and i did. does no one get our/my humor??

Chels and tina and tiff and liz and some boy came over last night and we played turbo cranium. It was wicked fun. It's funny though, I think I can be totally not competetive when someone else brings the game (like I don't think I was too bad playing that game about rules etc) but then we played Catch Phrase (my game) and it killed me that people were breaking the rules. Why??? I could let it slide for someone else's game, but insisted for my game it had to be played correctly. interesting. coltrol maybe....but that doesn't make sense. i dunno! Happy boxing day (dec 26th) and umm i'm going shopping now! bye!

Hey! So i've been taking a lot of crap from people about not writing an entry, in like forever! and ironically enough these are the people that never EVER write! (literally, not 1 entry). So not a lot has happened b/c I've been working on a stupid computer program from my research (like 12 hrs a day since my last final 10 days ago). Get this: about a month ago my advisor told me what my thesis should be and I assumed I had I dunno, the next year to work on it. Apparently not. He told me 2 weeks ago that he needed it b4 i leave for christmas. My whole thesis! It was crazy. He's really nice, but man i didn't see that coming. So that was the entry for every day for the past 10 days (minus minnie dying...that was really sad).

Last night we (my family) had fondue (sp??) and chelsea came over and it was way fun! Then Harpreet and Mich came and we played taboo for a long time, and that was fun too! the 20's kicked my parents butt (and lindsey)...ok not really, but it was fun. Then we played Tribond which could be a really fun game if updated, but it's like 15 years old and almost impossible. Long story short: my dad kicks our butt every time we play it, and there's no time limit, so with as many competetive people as were in the room, it took forever! But there were many memorable phrases used in the night...my favorite was Harpreet's...he was trying to make a joke and it totally didn't come out right. he said he was an "Ex-lax impersonator"....ok that was me not him...just kidding. it was him. no really it was me.  mmmm don't know who to believe do you!?? ok harpreet...was this long enough for you???

bottom line: i hate matlab (computer programming sucks!) and my high school friends are still way cool (maybe cooler than when we were in high school...mmm food for thought).

So yesterday everything is good and going fine (except for the fact that I can't get my stupid research program to work for anything)....and I call my mom to see how my cute new puppy Minnie is doing....yeah and she died! My poor puppy apparently ate a poisonous palm tree and it went to her liver then her brain and so they gave her vicadin and then she died .... like 12 hrs after she ate the stupid tree. :( It's so not fair because she's just a baby and we've had her less than a month. I already miss her and she made our house so alive and christmas is going to be sad because everyone bought her presents and mine are just arriving    :'(     So sad. So I think i'm coming home the 22nd...I think.

The random thing is apparently my response to tragedy (after crying for an hour) is pampering and shopping. (Could I be a bigger girl!?) Every store I had even the slightest interest in that I drove by, I went in. Luckily it's christmas so my splurging is for my family mostly. Also, I got a manicure. It felt so nice! Plus my the nail polish dried so hard with that UV thing...anyway I'm going for a massage today cuz my back is just killing me. Poor puppy. ( I don't think my bank account can take any more tragedy...I'll be dipping into savings soon!) . bye.

So I hate finals....I didn't think they had those in grad school....I just saw 'Birth' with nicole kidman - dumb movie, don't see it....it's not scary....bennigan's was yucky too, the drinks were expensive and food not that great....funny i didn't think i was in an unhappy mood, but apparently i am.

i love apathy...that's my mood....clearly. (see i'm not in a bad mood....i LOVE apathy and procrastination and staying in bed alllll weekend and sleep. i especially love sleep.....any my bunny. she's cute. she got into a fight with my big plastic candle lighter today. it was funny. she was throwing it around and everything....she felt so accomplished when she 'won'....yes. i love my bunny. and apathy)