Domestic Geek

It was a pretty good day today. Of course, any day that I don't have to go to work is a pretty good day. LOL

I got a full night's sleep. That was cool. I think I slept until *gasp* 8:30! It could have been longer except that a certain brown dog decided it was time for me to get up.

Since I have no Christmas spirit this year, I still hadn't decorated the tree as of this morning (except for putting lights on it) and had no inclination to do so. Marcus has tons of spirit, so he decorated the tree—with all things tech! CDs, fried memory sticks, ethernet cable, old floppy disks, mice, his paper-weight fried iPod, etc. It looks rather lovely. I believe he is planning on posting some pics tomorrow, so I'll link to them when he does.

We went to the store to get stuff for dinner today and had to swing by Starbucks because Marcus was out of beans and he can't get through a weekend without making himself some kind of caffeinated beverage. He bought me a White Chocolate Mocha while we were there. We hadn't sat and had coffee together at a Starbucks in MONTHS! When we got home, Marcus changed his transmission fluid while I took advantage of the beautiful weather and picked up Skippy poo in the yard. After surfing some blogs and IMing with a friend of Marcus' with whom I hadn't talked to in ages, I snuggled into bed to watch the end of the Bronco/Raider game while Marcus fixed my event calendar script (look—next year's events show up now!). Then Marcus and I made a nice dinner of cornish game hens (made in the Foreman), au gratin potatoes, biscuits and peas. I settled on the couch to watch It's A Wonderful Life (Marcus has never seen it—can you believe that?) while Marcus played Call of Duty with his friends.

Now, it's time for bed and I don't have to work tomorrow, either. Hooray!

I hope everyone (that celebrates it) has a Merry Christmas!

Happy Festivus, Everybody!!!!

(feel free to air your grievances in the comments)

Here's my grievance for the day: I've been complaining to management about the front door being broken since mid-June. It's been getting worse and worse the last month or so. I complained to the newest manager a couple of weeks ago. Even the owner commented on how much of a pain the lock is yesterday. Does anybody call a door repairman? NO! Just as I predicted, a day would come when the food delivery guys wouldn't be able to get the door open and they would just leave. Today was that day. When the company came back for a second time and explained why the delivery was so late, did that manager get off his ass and call in a repairman? NO! I'm so tired of this kind of crap.

I hate my pizza job. I want to quit. Bad. I should be there now, but I don't want to go. So, I was sitting here doing a search for some freelance work I might be able to do on the side to replace the pizza income (now that I have procured a full time job) and I found this ad for an Apple Retail Creative on craigslist. Look at where the location is. Flatiron Crossing.

Yes, there is going to be another Colorado Apple Store, this time in Broomfield. Excellent. I was doing a bunch of searches trying to find the opening date. No luck. You can be assured that Marcus and Mike (and me) will attend the Grand Opening. I have to have another t-shirt for my collection. I already have the Aspen Grove and Cherry Creek ones. I assume that since they are hiring for all positions on the Apple Jobs site, it can't be too far off in the future!

It's been a Christmas movie marathon at my house today. I started off by watching The Polar Express, followed by A Christmas Story and finished up by Jim Carrey's How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

A heard something interesting on the radio the other day and as par for me, I don't believe anything I hear unless I research it for myself. I had always heard that denoting Christmas as Xmas was the way secular people tried to take away the religious aspects of the holiday. It turns out that Christmas has been denoted in this fashion for over a thousand years. If you're curious of the origins, read this wikipedia entry on Xmas.

Well, I was offically hired as a graphic designer today. I start on January 2nd. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

More proof that 2006 is going to be my year (since my lucky number is 6).