Not Letting this Puppy die.

So I've recently come under fire for not being a very good blogger. I'm sorry puppy, I've been neglecting you. I think about all these things "ooh.. I'm going to blog about that." And then get distracted or busy, and it doesn't happen (but I'm still thinking about them! They're coming... eventually.) So this is my contribution for today. I REALLY should be sleeping as I have work in a few hours, plus a long night of eating and drinking ahead - but I guess I can sleep, um... later. (I would say "when I die", but that's kind of morbid.)

Part of the reason I'm up so late is that I woke up really late because I stayed up far too late the night before (I knew I shouldn't have went to karaoke...) So it's a vicious cycle. I had a lot of stuff I needed to do, and hardly got anything done because I woke up so late. One of these things is Christmas cards. Yes. I know that Christmas is over. So.. they're... Holiday cards? Every year I really think that I'm going to attempt to send out Christmas cards in the effort of keeping in touch, and getting bogged down for some reason or another. This year, I really didn't want that to happen.


Andrea told me just to give up, either because it's too late, or she didn't think I'd actually do it, or maybe it wasn't worth the effort - but I guess maybe that was good motivation for me to do it even more. Who knows. But this is me pulling out all my various holiday cards from the year and sending it out to my list. Round one... I'll finish the rest later. I'm really gonna do it. Seriously. I think I need to be better about following up on things, committing to things, taking things seriously, and actually doing them (was that all summed up by following up on?)

Sure, Christmas cards seem kind of silly - but baby steps. Next it will be responding to all emails right away, make sure everything's paid on time, making sure things I've said I'll do get done, being better at keeping my life organized and maybe one day I'll even reach going to sleep at a decent hour.

Here's to hope in the new year.

Deserving Punishment

So Andrea and I went to a Christmas Choir concert last night. Our ex-DD buddy JL was singing in it. Between the conductor lady who was "secretly in love" with her old composer buddy, the overly expressive choir singers, and eating burritos in the chapel, we found our amusement in addition to the singing. Between the two of us, we had been to LMU 3 times: me, once for high school college campus tours, and Andrea because her brother went there. We didn't know where we were going, but we eventually got there.
Just make sure that when you go to LMU, that you don't park anywhere you're not supposed to. Punishment may be a little harsh and who knows what will happen to you after that. I showed my ignorance of religion by asking Andrea all sort of questions about what exactly Jesuits were, and how they differed from Catholics. I feel a little bad because I didn't grow up with much religious experience or education, except for a little bit of Buddhism, but other than that, hardly any at all. While I'm okay with it, there's a lot of references that I feel I miss out on. Plus, then I'm an insensitive jerk face because I don't "get it". Either way, signs like these amuse me. I also parked in an IT employee only zone, but my car was still dirty when i got back, so it hadn't been baptized. Good. And to show you I'm not alone, here's a little gem courtesy of our friend Nesticle.

Ernest: jean are you getting me an x-mas present :) i need to know who to buy gifts for
me: hahah.. you should get me a gift if you want to. not whether or not i'm getting you one :P
Ernest: well I'm really really lazy :) so it's not a matter of me not wanting to get gifts. I want to get gifts to all my friends! but i would feel really bad if someone got me a gift and I didn't get one for them
me: this is so not the meaning of christmas :P. dorina and i are planning on getting you gifts.
Ernest: i'm chinese. and not religious. i don't know the meaning of xmas :)