blah blah... christmas spirit. blah blah

Time to breath... I went to the Gwen Stefani concert last saturday. I have never (in my life) heard a stadium full of 25-40 year old women scream in unison. It was absolutely insane! I think I can cross that experience off my life's to-do list. Right next to "Swim the nile in a rubber ducky inner tube."

Anyway, Christmas is just around the corner and I'm deciding to make all my gifts this year. I'm going to be using my l33t photoshop skillz as well as some creative manly craftsmanship. It'll be interesting and it is better than building your own e-card system (which was really cheesy and i already done a few years back). I'm also going to try and send a whole bunch of snail mail "cards" out. So if you'd like a card; send me an e-mail with your name and address. (But get it in soon, since I need to start mailing these things out!)

OH yea! This year, I get to participate in a kris kringle. Here are the rules: I get to send out a "wishlist" that is made of 3 items of choice. The limit for the exchange is $100. Either the three items could total $100 dollars (and hopefully get all three) or it could be just one item (totalling close to the $100). But I'm all out of ideas (except for the first one). So I'm soliciting suggestions from you (the readers, peanut gallery -whatever you guys want to refer to yourselves as) for some help: What should I pick?! Post your ideas through the comments.

The list:

• Mario Kart DS
• Animal Crossing DS
• Donation to my favorite charity
• l33t books!

The only time I have to post

Originally uploaded by ritchie mac.

I have to admit, it's not that I've been incredibly busy with my life. Same things have been happening: teaching is still there, boogienet is still there and icbc is, you guessed it, still there. I'm pretty much into my 14 hour day routine.

The last few weeks have been thrown off balanced. I had some visitors in the house. By some, I mean enough to make my living room look like the underground railroad for filipinos + 2 dogs. Yes, you heard that correctly. 2 dogs, one is Java. The new addition to the family.

If you've been following along with my flickr pictures you would've noticed him a few weeks ago. I can easily see how owners and dogs can get attached emotionally to one another. In Java's case, it's more the owner being attached. See Java already knows how to control us (Cheryl and I). We call him, he doesn't come unless he absolutely needs something. He wakes us up when he wants to go for a walk. He also makes us fetch his chew toys (when they slide under the furniture). Not to mention the fact that we're already being lead by him when we take hime for a walk and picking up his poop in the park.

If aliens saw us from above, they'd probably think that dogs are the more dominant of our two species.