No Two Turtle Doves Around Here

My holiday shopping has begun. As always, I bought more for myself. It's the time of the year that I'm actually not afraid to splurge because my motto is simply "Love thyself!" My two pairs of jeans came in the mail today and two books will be coming next week from Amazon. I wonder when I'll be able to declare on here that my iPod or PowerBook is coming. *SIGH. ;P

Anyway, this year, I plan to get more books for people than I have in the past. After almost 365 days, I have figured out that many people are simply clueless about their lives. Hence, books for the co-workers at Job #1. Then, we have the three Pogi Boys and Ganda Girl. Since, I'm enough of a horrible aunt to the boys (I don't know what they want for Christmas and they're always shy about telling me), I think I'll just give them money this year. When I was at Target today (Locals, check out the new Federal Way one, it's huge!), I saw a 4-pack Bratz collection so I'm thinking Ganda Girl will get her birthday wish one month late from me. Now, I just got to figure out what to get for both of my bosses. I'm more worried about my boss at Job #2 because I want to get her something uber nice since she really did go out of her way to write me a reference letter for my JET application. People, have any ideas?

O Christmas Tree

I brought home some work tonight. This is the second time I did this and I'm not too happy about it. First, I missed The Amazing Race. Second, I was so engrossed in perfecting a Request for Proposal (RFP) form that I totally forgot about the eBay item that I wanted to bid on. Grr!

I decided to work on this crap at home because most of my time today was spent on decorating the office. My boss and I headed to Target at lunchtime to buy a tree and trimmings for our brand new office. Yes, the grinch in me got into the holiday spirit after buying everything (there's something really enjoyable about spending money that is not your own) plus there was a woman who gave me Target's last two packs of ornament hangers after she overheard me saying, "Where the hell are those ornament hangers?!" I thought that was quite nice of her and very holiday spirit-y.

Anyway, so now I'm thinking maybe I should be nice and spend some money buying a nice tree for our house. Every year, I moan about putting the tree up because it's a pain in the butt to do so with having to stick each branch on the tree (versus those ones where you just unfold the branches). Plus, I thought it was cool that they now have "Christmas Tree Nets." Instead of circling the tree with lights, you can buy these nets where you just basically shove on the tree and voila! Lights all over the tree! I swear, they're the coolest thing I've seen this year! This can also serve as a Christmas present for my mom because I'm sure she'll be thrilled that I'm not boycotting Christmas this year unlike what I did last year (Hey, I wanted to be in the Philippines, okay?! HeHe).

(Let me babble because I need to entertain myself. LoL)

However, while driving home, I felt a tad bit lonely. There's a difference between being alone and feeling lonely. I'm usually fine being alone, but today I felt lonely. Tsk. Tsk. Two weeks ago, I bought myself earrings and I'm in the process of buying a new watch. While there are boyfriends and girlfriends out there who are worrying about what to get their significant other, I'm here relying on myself to buy the things that I want. There's definitely nothing wrong with that, but having meaningful things is nicer than just having things, correct? Sino kaya ang magbibigay sa akin ng meaningful iPod ko? HeHe!

Mareng Engineer

This warrants a shout out on here: Zara, congrats for passing the board exam! I'm so proud of you! Basta pagdating ko diyan, dapat may blow out ha. Tiyaka, sa kasal ninyo, sana pogi yung ka-partner ko. LoL.

HOTelier

I spent Thanksgiving having a Krung-Krung marathon, thanks in large part to Pen who insisted that I bring her Hotelier copy home with me to Seattle. I vividly remember telling Pen, "Huwag na. Wala akong time panoorin yan and it would be too expensive to ship the DVDs back to you." Of course, hindi nagpatalo si Pen sa argument: Biglang nilabas ang plastic CD protective sleeves and inserted each of the 10 DVDs in them just so that I would shut up and stuff the DVDs in my luggage. Bakit ba lagi akong damay sa mga teenybopper ways niyan?! LoL.

So while people salivated over turkey and gravy yesterday, I was salivating over Bae Yong-Jun (Shall be referred to as "Bayong" from now on. At least I'm not in lust with "Baheng," Pen's Korean papa of choice. LoL.). That man is hot. How come my Korean T.A. for International Business did not look anything like that?! Sheesh! More than anything though, I think he reminds me of Lance Gokongwei kaya falling in lust was inevitable. *SIGH. Hooray for smart-looking, glasses-wearing, tall, clean-cut, educated, English-speaking, and romantic foreign TV lead actors. Mabuhay kayong lahat. LoL.

Hear Ye

My JET application is now in the hands of the United States Postal Services. May they deliver that safely to Washington D.C. by December 1 (I paid extra for it to be sent as Priority Mail afterall). I really hope I get into the program. Please God, let me be three hours away from the Philippines next year! LoL.

Anyway, Christmas is around the corner. My wishlist:

- 40GB iPod
- Apple PowerBook (12" or 15", who cares? I just want one...with a SuperDrive)
- Sony DSC-W1 Digital Camera...because idol ko si Pen
- Il Mare Special Edition DVD (eBay is calling my name)
- two books from Amazon.com

As you can see, I'm going materialistic (and geeky!) this year. Screw the "I want love this Christmas" mantra. Hmph! HeHe.