Domestic Geek

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).

So, I keep hearing this one song that I really like playing at stores. It has a realy cool horn riff in it. The problem is that with all the other background noise and how fast the singer speaks, I can never hear the specific lyrics so that I can google them. Well, I was standing right under a speaker at King Soopers today and I caught enough words. I googled them as soon as I got home and I find that it is a song by The Waitresses ("I Know What Boys Like", "Square Pegs") called "Christmas Wrapping". I've seen people mock this song on blogs and such and had no idea they were ridiculing a song I really liked. *hmph* Anyway, my $10 iTunes gift certificate came from Blingo a couple of days ago, so I purchased it!

I saw an infomercial last weekend for a CD collection that I wouldn't mind owning from Time Life called 70s Music Explostion. It's too bad the 10 disc collection costs $120! Even if I had money, I'd have a hard time shelling out that much at once for CDs.

Well, I had a job interview today for a graphic designer position that starts in January. I'll find out tomorrow if I got it. Starting pay is lower than I would've liked, but it's more than I was making at the screen printers. There will probably be a substantial pay increase after six months. I figure this will be like an internship more or less until I prove myself. The big drawback is the place is in Larkspur (you know—the place where they have the Colorado Renaissance Festival every year). I guess the guys that work there carpool alot, so that could be cool. I know the two guys that currently work there from Platt, so I don't have any doubts that I can work and get along with them. I guess we'll find out tomorrow, eh?

Our power kept going out on Monday evening. If you tried to access our websites then and couldn't, that's why. It sucked because it was really cold outside and snowing a little, too. We burned stuff in our fireplace to keep warm until we gave up and went to bed. Of course my alarm clock's battery was dead so it wouldn't keep time every time the power went out. I'm not sure when the power came back on for good.

I've been a movie watching fool the last few weeks. I'm trying to make the most of my Netflix subscription while I'm underemployed, plus HBO had a free preview weekend in there, too.
The Longest Yard (2005)—wasn't sure I'd like this remake, but I did! (Except for Rob Schneider)
March of the Penguins—those Emperor penguins are insane.
Love Actually—still can't stand Hugh Grant, am liking Emma Thompson more and more and why does Alan Rickman (Snape) always have to be a bad guy?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy—um, I don't get why this is popular.
Batman Begins—great movie. Much better than the previous Batman incarnations.
Beauty Shop—not as good as Barbershop, but a cute movie.
The Office: Series 1 (British Version)—just like the American one, took a couple of episodes to grow on me, but I like it.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory—this just weirded me out. That single Oompa Loompa was too disturbing.
Spiderman—wasn't impressed.
13 Going on 30—love all the '80s references!

I'm sure I've watched more, but that'll do for now.

Well, I'd better get back to decorating the tree that Marcus slayed.

I saw this over at Cindy's site. It sounded intriguing. You post the first sentence from the first blog entry of each month for the last year.

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