Merry Christms everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. As for me, it came...and went. It was fun spending time with my parents, and the little time I did with my sister and her family. It was a lot of fun seeing the kids opening their gifts. Our house was clean, and once they came, all hell broke loose....gift wrap, toys, ribbons, boxes...everywhere. But it was a lot fun.

Christmas was a little ehhh this year for me. As I said earlier, its just been exhausting with work, Christmas shopping, that I didn't really have time to soak it in and enjoy it. And it sucked to have to leave Christmas night to work the next day. Well, I only showed up for a couple of hours on Tuesday, but man, there's barely anyone at work, it makes me not want to work. If there wasn't a stupid Broadway musical at work, I'd probably ask for the week off. Oh well...at least there's another three-day weekend. Thank you everyone for the presents...they were really cool.

Went shopping yesterday at Sport Chalet, and bought myself a new snowboarding jacket and a new goggle case. Gotta prep up for the big Tahoe trip. I got a good deal on this Ride jacket. Normally it was $150, then Sport Chalet had a 30% off sale, then I had another $25 off coupon, so I got it for about $80. Not too shabby. The only problem is that I wanted another color. And the only place that had it was back in Oxnard last month when we went black Friday shopping. I've been to 5 local stores (South Coast, HB, Foothill Ranch, Irvine, and Mission Viejo) and none of them have it. I'm still gonna check the Laguna store and the Brea store. If they don't have it, then blah! I'll just keep what I have.

I'm getting pretty excited about the trip. I stopped by the Spectrum after Sport Chalet, and just watched people ice skating on the outdoor rink. Reminds me of the fun time we had last year, ice skating at high elevation at freakin freezing temperatures. What's also cool is that, we wont be working a full week of work until the week after we come back from Tahoe! See...this week is a 4 day work week cuz of Christmas, next week will be cuz of New Years, the week after, we leave for Tahoe on Friday, so that's another 4 day week, then we come back on Monday, which would be another 4 day week. Awesome!

Anyhow, two more days until our after-Christmas party, then we celebrate the New Year and of course, the Rose Bowl game: USC vs Michigan. I can't wait! Happy New Year everyone! GO BLUE!!