Okay. Wow. Phew! Boy have I been a busy bee! In case you haven’t noticed, I did a little redecorating around here. Can you see a difference? CLICK HERE. Okay, okay. It’s not new actually. But we haven’t seen this look in a long time. Plus it took me 5 hours to drag it into the present with us okay? Sooo, what do you think? Is it okay for now? Are we feeling the retro style popup comments? Shall I leave a ‘skinner’ so you can pick and choose?

Inquiring minds wanna know..

(Maybe someday I’ll get a new design… I just don’t have the skills and don’t know where to turn. I know a designer, but something about mixing business and pleasure seems awkward about that. Or I am paranoid. I wish Julie was still in business.)

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I slept until one in the afternoon today. I felt kinda bad about it. Well, at least till I remembered that I was at work until one in the morning, and thus up until 3:30. Still a lot more sleep time than I actually need, but December does tend to catch up with ya. Heh. I can’t believe we are two days away from the halfway mark. Time goes crazy fast! Amazing.

I am pretty caught up this year too. work is going 10 times smoother than last year. I feel like we are on top of it.  Sure I am doing 6 days, but the hours are not too crazy. In fact, this is my only ‘closing’ weekend. I am almost through it! I feel a bit more balanced and caught up at home too. My holiday cards are sent. We are going to have a post-holiday party, and the planning is done for that. The invites are out. As soon as we get some RSVP’s we can move on food and stuff. The house is clean. We really just need to maintain and we will be guest-ready. Heck, I even got my 20,000 mile tune-up done! So the car drama the other day was not so bad… Right? All I have left to squeeze into the month is a DMV visit (appointment Tuesday) and a haircut. No problem!

So yeah. Today I am calm. Maybe by next week I’ll be a frazzled mess like usual. But so far so good as of today. 

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Dude. Some of y’all have long ass addresses! Srsly! My hand is numb. Okay not really, but I am working on getting the cards out. So… If you have not signed up for the dp.com holiday Card Exchange™ time is really running out. I think we are on our last 48 hours yo. If yo are still interested, put your snail mail in this handy contact form. We will send a card. *wink* A sassy card even…

And if you haven’t updated your info, you may want to visit the aforementioned contact form as well. Keep me up to date so I can fill your box with cheer! Heh.

LAST CALL

Oh, and if you are just now trusting me with your info, and we haven’t met in comments or something… let’s chat yo. Tell me what your deal is

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Okay. I survived. It was the least traumatic Black Friday ever. Surprising. But also the busiest. I thought the lines would never go down. Srsly. Hours and hours of constant 30 + people deep. Hours.

But it’s in the past now, as the hideous month of December soon will be as well.

*waits*

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In Korea, a Boot Camp Cure for Web Obsession

MOKCHEON, South Korea - The compound - part boot camp, part rehab center - resembles programs around the world for troubled youths. Drill instructors drive young men through military-style obstacle courses, counselors lead group sessions, and there are even therapeutic workshops on pottery and drumming.But these young people are not battling alcohol or drugs. Rather, they have severe cases of what many in this country believe is a new and potentially deadly addiction: cyberspace.... They spend at least two hours a day online, usually playing games or chatting. Of those, up to a quarter million probably show signs of actual addiction, like an inability to stop themselves from using computers, rising levels of tolerance that drive them to seek ever longer sessions online, and withdrawal symptoms like anger and craving when prevented from logging on.

Probably so…

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It is only 7 thirty in the evening. But time ebbs away from me. Why? Because I am to be AT work AT four in the morning. Four. Now I know I always bitch about the early shifts but 4?? OMFG. I am lost for words. I am sooo far from ‘ready for bed’ it’s not even funny. Bah. What can you do? All I know is that ‘Sleepy Time’ tea is a bitch. I slept for two hours last night on that and woke up. I was wide awake for the rest of the night. Not so ‘sleepy’, eh?

So I had a few good ideas to kill off time for my early evening. Make a pizza and do a podcast. Clearly I was nuts. I am refraining from the podcast. I do have like 50 million things to talk about, but there is no time. I end up editing and all that crap till the wee hours. I should already be asleep for cry-eye.

So that is the latest. Maybe I’ll pre-blog for turd-morrow. But I doubt it.

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