Wishes

With the first snowfall of the season today, I can't help not to think about Christmas...and all the consumerism that goes with it.

So, if there really was a Santa who can give me anything that I want (and who doesn't care that I'm really too old to be asking him for anything), my wish would have to be this:


The latest iMac loaded with Adobe CS3 Design Premium

But since reality bites sometimes, my Christmas wishlist looks more like this:

• iPod Shuffle (red)


• My Lovely Sam-Soon DVD boxset (Region 1)


• external DVD burner


• Adobe CS3 Design Premium (Mac version)

This list would've been a lot longer if I didn't take care most of my wants during Black Friday (I almost fainted when my November credit card bill arrived...and that's why these last four items have turned into "wishes" rather than "got its." HaHa!). At this time of the year, I'm definitely happy to be back in the land of milk and honey.

Totally CSSed Out

While many people are preparing for Thanksgiving by pulling out recipes and cooking, I am doing something else: learning CSS (Quick, how do you say "geek" en espanol?) I'm spending all day tomorrow at work to attend a Dreamweaver Level 1 class (and Level 2 will be two Saturdays from tomorrow).

My goal is that by Thanksgiving, this page will be all CSSed-out. May all those night classes of XHTML, CSS, and Dreamweaver pay off soon...so I can freelance on the side. HaHa!

Two O Six

Pen said it best: welcome back to civilization.

After six months of not bothering to activate MotoMiNA here in Seattle and not using my manual dexterity skills, my cellphone is now back in business with a 206 number. Whoo hoo! (Yes, your Christmas wishes have been granted. HaHa!)

Savings My Butt

After two years of living without Daylight Savings Time, I am now highly oppose to it. What was the purpose of setting back the clock for an hour again? Personally, I would rather have more daylight at the end of my day rather than at the beginning. You're tired from having worked eight hours, and now you have to drive home in the dark?! Preposterous!

The Gala

I've been counting down the past two weeks, and finally, the gala is done and over with. The last two days were crazy, crazy enough to make me take Friday off from work to create auction display tent cards. Then, that night, I was stuck in the BankofAmerica building with E, trying to print them out on thick-ass cardstock that I bought from PaperZone. We eventually had to give up and let the experts (that would be FedExKinko's) do it for us.

Last night was the gala and instead of feeling triumphant, I was just really waiting for it to be over. It was a lot of work and a lot of time (I was in charge of dessert/live/silent auctions). I can never look at spreadsheets ever again. But if it's any consolation, this event made realize that Seattle does have good-looking Asian Americans. I have no idea where they hide, but they all came out last night enough to give me eye-candy and forget the pain in my feet. Who the hell needs to move to California, eh?