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Monday, December 21st, 2009 at 1:13am

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Well, it’s official. Sarah is my own personal corrupter. It was bound to happen eventually.

Quite a few things going on these days. Of course I’m still working on all kinds of projects for the new years party. I keep coming up with crazy ideas to try and make happen. And amazingly, we’ve been finding ways to make everything happen.

Usually when we’re building and planning these insane parties, I come up with these “Wouldn’t it be cool if…” ideas that end up being too big for our budgets and/or skill set. This time around, though, everything I’ve come up with, we’ve been able to put into practice. It’s kind of amazing.

I finally got a check from the insurance company. They’re giving me a little more than half of the value of the stolen items. Infuriating. There’s another two grand I’m “eligible” for if I can prove that what they’ve given me isn’t enough to replace the items. Which, in actuality, is just more arbitrary hoops to jump through just to make things difficult on me. I might not get around to shopping for everything until January. Maybe there will be some after Christmas sales and I’ll be able to make the money stretch further.

Sarah came over Friday and Saturday night for more drinks and movies. Friday night we ate at Gandolfos, then tackled two bottles of wine and watched Stingray Sam. All three of those things sound fantastic to me right now…

Saturday night she came over later in the evening. I was out of mix-ins for our drinks, so she decided it would be a good idea to do shots. So… that’s what we did. It was just supposed to be a quiet Saturday movie night, and a half hour later we’re both giggling our little faces off. We watched The Long Kiss Goodnight, and other random TV shows. Talked a lot about the party. She’s painting a big mural-like space scene for me. I’m sure it’ll be rad.

I’ve got quite a bit of Christmas shopping left to do. It’s only just starting to stress me out. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow… or Tuesday.

Todd is coming into town tomorrow night. It’ll be good to see him again. I want to borrow American Astronaut from Sarah and make Todd watch it with me. I’ve got a feeling he may like it.

I think that about does it. End of the year is rapidly approaching. Time to look back, and plan ahead.

Things just keep changing.

Goodnight Moon.
Dream On.

Monday, December 7th, 2009 at 1:23am

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Painting, building, cutting, nailing, sawing. I’ve spent almost all of my weekend in the garage working on party-related things.

I’ve come to realize that I’ve lost focus on too many other things in my life, while I’m working on all of this party nonsense. I forgot that it’s already Christmas time, which means I need to start shopping. So… that kinda sucks.

There’s still so much left to do.

I just finished watching Metropolis. When I put it on my Netflix, I knew it was a very old movie, but I did not know it was a silent film. I enjoyed it, but I think my understanding of it is only surface-level. Might be worth another watch or two later down the line.

I’ve been having some troubles with insurance companies lately. First, my car insurance company loves it when I pay may bills late so they’ve become very good at mailing me my bill the day before it’s due. And since they only accept checks, I need the actual paper bill to pay the damn thing.

Then I get a letter in the mail from my renters insurance telling me that it’s been a month since I’ve filed my claim and if I don’t send them any of the paper work and information they requested then my claim will become inactive. Which is very maddening, given that I’ve got a delivery confirmation notice saying they received all the paperwork I sent out last month. I’m sure this will be a fun one to try to clear up.

What else?

I’ve been extra broke this weekend, so I didn’t get my regular hang-outs with Jasmine or Sarah. Definitely a bummer. Lots of talk with Li-Ling and Company(tm) about our winter Disneyland trip, which is always a great thing. I’m asking Sarah to come with this year. I need a riding buddy, now that everyone else has partnered up.

I’m becoming increasingly excited for a new year to start. I don’t know why, really. As silly as it is, there is definitely a “start fresh” feeling when the calendar rolls over to January. I’ve already got my list of things I want (and need) to accomplish in 2010.

I think that about does it. Nothing terribly exciting going on right now.

And for the life of me, I can’t get this paint off my hands.

Goodnight Moon.