Old Stuff

This is an old post I wrote and then didn't post. Then I discovered I hadn't posted it way after the fact. If there are spelling and grammar problems...Tough luck Aaron. I'm not willing to go through it and make sense of what I wrote then.
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Monday we had a pizza party at work. Gus decided we needed a Friday tradition (our Friday that is), I decided there should be food, he decided pizza is a Friday food, and so our biweekly tradition was born. I got the nastiest nose bleed during our party. Our Benefits Fair was also this day, as was my last Genetics class; now there's just the test left to go. O chem ends Monday, so I need to get in gear immediately. I'm dropping my last test, and it's kind of a joke how badly I did. I really did laugh; I didn't know it was possible to do so badly on a single test. My sister sent me one of her random powerpoint presentations while I was still at work, but I didn't have enough time to watch more than half of it, then got busy and didn't finish the rest of it before leaving for the week, which kind of bummed. What I saw of it was as I remember the rest of her random projects to be--hilarious. I need to convince her to start posting them on her blog or something. I don't know if that's possible, but there's got to be a way to post it to the internet, and then link to it at least.

I don't really remember Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Friday was Winder Dairy followed by a Christmas movie. There was a lot of driving, and I finally convinced Sheidi that I am a horrible driver after all. Before heading to WD I stopped at my parents' house and my dad put on my new license plates, and some books I ordered online had come in the mail--Amazon is way too accessible. I wasn't so happy with the movie choice, since the original Grinch is such a classic and in my opinion the new one is a defamation; there are just too many Christmas movies I'm looking forward to watching this season, and I had hoped to cross one of them off my list. Such as A Charlie Brown Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, Home Alone (which I bought just the other day on DVD), A Bump in the Night's Christmas special, The Smurf's Christmas special (if ever I can find it), Frosty the Snowman, Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer...The list is long, and I plan on watching all of them. We did watch a Claymation Christmas, or parts of it, but very few people enjoy it as much as I, which throws a damper on it completely. If there's one thing I hate, it's when a damper is thrown. They're heavy, and all-encompassing. Scones were excellent, even though the dog ate my remaining scones. Now there just needs to be sledding and a snowball fight.

I had a date on Saturday, with this kid my sister wants me to marry so she can combine family functions with his sister, who is her good friend. I also went to the Festival of Trees earlier with most of family, which made me happy. My niece was dancing, and the vast majority of my nieces and nephews were there. We didn't really get to look at many trees, but as that's one of the places I went on my date, it didn't really matter much. After the first visit I took a nap at my parents' house. I got to sleep on my old, queen sized bed. Man do I miss that thing. Then I got ready and went on my date with Guy, as I will henceforth refer to him. At the F of T's I got some good ideas for my tree we're entering next year. In addition to the ornaments I already have, I'm going to cut apart cans and construct 3D ornaments, as seen on some of the trees. And make a train out of Soda can boxes. I love Christmas trees. After the trees we went to Iggy's Sports Grill, during a jazz game no less, so there were random bursts of cheering during our conversations, which startled us both. Funny that neither of us were huge on watching sporting events, but we were at a sports bar. We had an overly attentive waiter, which was made for interesting breaks in conversation. Guy smelled really good, and was pretty cute. But although we had a lot in common, there wasn't much in the way of chemistry. Perhaps too much in common. Anyway, after I bought meatballs for my potluck the next day, and my sister was nice enough to lend me her crock pot. That turned out better than I thought it would--I'm not too fond of Swedish meatballs, even with mushrooms.