Ready The Sheets, It's Time To Put 2008 To Bed.

What to say, what to think, what to do?

Less than 7 hours left until the new year! Australia's already been gettin down for a while now, and I will be planning to do the same later on tonight.

SO, this of course is going to be the post where I reflect on some of the things that I've been grateful for this 2008. I'm happy to say that this has been one of the best years of my entire life that I can remember, which makes me await 2009 with open arms and a wide crazed smile.

2008 brought some of the best times of my life, and also one of the sickest times of my life. Strep throat 3 times in a row with no health insurance? How bout it!


A selection of my great in '08 list goes as follows:

- Moving out of my parent's house in January amidst skepticism and living on my own, quite successfully I might add (meaning I can afford air/heat/cable/internets/AND food), for almost a year now.
- Getting hired into a new position at work and actually being happy doing what I do.
- Maintaining college friends in my life after leaving school.
- Saw a bunch of amazing concerts/performances
- New Friends!
- Living in Chinatown for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
- um, THE PHILLIES WINNING THE WORLD SERIES!
- voting in the most historic election in the history of the United States FOR BARACK OBAMA!
- late night Broad Street runs


2008 you will be missed but never forgotten!


Bring on 2009!


Happy New Year everyone!
Be Happy.

Reflecting On Christmas Eves Past As If They Were Yesterday.

On the train ride home today, packed and cramped along with the 30 thousand other people coming home for the holidays I was left with myself thinking about past Christmas years in my parents household.

How the nights used to be so huge with anticipation, I never knew how I fell asleep.

How all those nights we left cookies and milk for Santa, and carrots for the reindeer.

How by coincidence, the same year my father went on a diet, Santa did too. (He never did finish those tuna sandwiches we left him).

Getting up so early in the morning wanting to scream my freakin face off and bounce on the walls, and then being pissed off when my parents weren't ready to get up.

It didn't take long for me to feel their pain, as my younger sister (by 9 years) put me through the same thing.

Now we're older (my sister is a teenager and thanks to Christ sleeps like one) and needless to say the nights and mornings aren't the same. Sure we're older and know where the gifts are coming from. For god's sake they're under the tree all day Christmas Eve! But now I feel slowly but surely I'm entering the age where it'll be time for my family, my brother's, and my sister's to all convene back here where I grew up.

Granted I don't have mounds of presents in my arms walking in the door and a husband and kids in tow (NOT even a thought!) BUT! The day will come. And I'll always remember the milk and cookies and tuna fish sandwiches.

And that one year when I swear to God I heard Santa walking around downstairs.

And could do nothing but lay in my bed shaking with fear .... that a stranger was in my home.






Merry Christmas.

Plane Crash Survivor Tweets the Aftermath.

Looks like the line of social media and real life are becoming further blurred. After yesterday's Denver plane incident, a man by the name of Mike Wilson made "history" (what? I don't know. will this be cited on wikipedia one day?) by being the very first person to tweet the scene of a plane crash.

And then proceeded to complain how the airline wasn't serving anyone drinks afterward. I don't see why I should be surprised when the situation explains itself in his Twitter name.

“Should anything be off limits for bloggers and tweeters, or is nothing sacred?” -Mr. Siddique of the Guardian

But just to clarify, he was "not tweeting from the inside of a burning plane."

OH COME ON THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER!

Said article can be read



here.

A Few Last Minute Gift Ideas.

Strapped for a gift on that special someone because you waited to long into the holiday season? Well ladies and gents I have stumbled on a site with all the gift ideas you'll ever need. Intimate and useful all at the same time.

A couple of my favorites from this list include:


"Nothing"
For when you find yourself so enraged at someone at (what is supposed to be) one of the happiest times of the year, you literally...want to give them nothing.



and Squirrel Feet Earrings. Quite fashionable if you ask me.






You're welcome.



http://inventorspot.com/articles/15_strange_funny_weird_bizarre_sick_gifts_20878

I Think I May Have Found The Saddest Christmas Song EVER.

Driving home tonight flipping through random radio stations, something about this song caught my ear and I decided to listen.

Prepare yourself for the most terrible Christmas song that you will have ever heard in your entire life.



Maybe even worse than Christmas Shoes?


You Decide.

"Happy" Holidays!

Do You Relate To This? Maybe You Spend Too Much Time Online.

Survey: Many would take Internet over sex

Story Highlights

• Survey: Nearly half of women would forgo sex rather than give up Internet access
• More women than men would be willing to give up sex, the survey found
• The survey, commissioned by Intel, queried 2,119 adults in the U.S. last month
• Most adults also would forgo two weeks of TV over one week of Internet use

What about...sex...AND the internet? After all, that IS why wireless was invented, right?

Japanese People are Funny!

They come up with the most creative things that, more often than not, seem eerily useful and appealing to me.

Introducing the Private Browsing Sweater:



I imagine your body temperature rising rather quickly.

You Know What Lets Give One To Last.fm, Too!

I woke up this morning to start my daily playlist of playing whatever the hell comes up on random remembering songs I forgot I liked. In this process I always go on last.fm just to see what everyone else is currently listening to/obsessed with. (Yeah, I get a little embarrassed too when you look at my previously played tracks and the same song comes up about 15 times in a row but [I think] I'm ok with it.)

ANYWAY

As I click to look at someone's profile while I'm listening to music, some other strange sounds start coming up aside from the song that I'm currently listening to. I stumble, and many the times I have stumbled on a site that plays videos right away, or plays songs right away, or tells me congratulations I just won a free [insert random object here]. But I wasn't stumbling. Did I leave another window open? No... Is there a virus? Is this AIM being stupid again? No, MACs are better than that. Then where the hell is that sound coming from?

Then I realized. Hm.

It's coming from a banner on the side of my last.fm pages. On my profile page, on musician pages. Every page. Granted, they don't appear for you or your friends if you pay to be a subscriber... but I am not a subscriber. Normally ads don't bother me. In fact last.fm banners have previously been non instrusive and sometimes interesting (movie soundtracks, upcoming concerts etc.) UNTIL NOW.

Why the hell would they put a banner up for a Beck's beer that has random noises to it and NOT EVEN GIVE YOU THE OPTION TO MUTE IT? Is this their way of trying to get people to subscribe to the site? Not a very good ploy, for me anyway. If anything I'd stop using it. Sure, what's $3 dollars a month to not have this shit come up behind my songs and ruin them? Who cares, I'm not paying it.

Last.fm, please get off your shit horse and take that nonsense off your page. Unnecessary. You guys have lost points today. Congratulations.

Click here to air your grievances and push to have them ban audio banners. The audio banner isn't on this page. That'd be too ironic.

Lets give a giant F for the month of November.

According to my own archives it looks like I've had just next to nothing to say the entire month of November. Maybe it's the weather that makes my brain quiet... or too loud and congested to make sense of anything that floats around up there.

Here's a jewel that was brought to my attention at work this past week. I can't get over how ridiculous it is. And I'm still looking for friends who would like to make this video our own and re create it in the Philadelphia area. Just let me know.