Bah humbug

I have a nice little photo collage draft going for you guys, but someone was too lazy to upload pictures last night. Instead she chose to reorganize her kitchen, the better to accomodate her beautiful new stand mixer (oh the photos, they are coming) and to attend the 7:40 showing of 'Fun with Dick and Jane'. Which, if you must know, was not fun at all. What a horrible movie. I will watch pretty much anything that includes at least 30 seconds of Tea Leoni, and after having watched 'Bruce Almighty' while using my beautiful new stand mixer, I was even in the mood for Jim Carrey. But you guys, this movie is AWFUL. Your nine bucks is better spent on, oh, I don't know, ANYTHING. I wasn't even amused by the big "Thanks To" list of all the evil corporations- it was LAME. The Enron people should be mightily offended. First they lose their pensions, now their revenge fantasies are corrupted, pulverized, beat to a pulp and made unforgivably BORING by Hollywood. FOR SHAME.

But Christmas, Christmas was nice. I worked about two days total last week and spent the rest of it in the car driving back and forth to Puyallup. Then yesterday I woke up at 5 to have breakfast with my parents. (Why 5, you ask? That dark ungodly hour of the morning? Because they had to drop Alex at the airport at 4:30 and didn't want to drive home, then back to Seattle. Why did Alex have to go to the airport at 4:30? Because he is CRAZY and volunteered to kick it with the National Guard in some undisclosed Middle Eastern country for the next four months. I KNOW. Be assured that this country is known to me and it's not one of the ones mixing up nuclear warheads. In fact, words better associated with this country are "resort" and "many many buckets of oil money". This undisclosed country would also like you to know that:

Unfortunately, many people still have misconceptions about [undisclosed country] and think that life here is how it was 20 or 30 years ago. So we have collected a series of articles to help clarify these misconceptions and help those individuals looking into visit or relocate to [undisclosed country].

The series of articles are about shopping, tennis, islands, festivals, hotels, stadiums, restaurants and "A City Who Cares". How helpful! It slightly smacks of the big packets my family used to get whenever we moved; all the lifestyle, culture and getting around information pertaining to our next assignment. I did scan through the military issued packet Alex received prior to departure. Seemed that lip balm was the thing you really needed to remember to bring with you. That and the flak jacket.)

So ANYWAY. Today I'm all "Work? Like, with paper? And a computer? Huh? ???"

Pictures tomorrow. I PROMISE.