the last one

well, today is my last day in my apartment. i'm spending it much like i spent my first few days in the apartment. except instead of unpacking, i'm packing it all up other than that it's the same. sitting at home, not working, with a movie on, and eating donuts and soda is exactly what i spent a lot of time doing in the beginning. those were pretty relaxing days. i'll miss this apartment. a lot of memories made. a few bad, but mostly good. this has been a crazy year: moving to a new (kind of) city, getting my first real job, meeting a wonderful guy that i can't imagine not having in my life. i can't wait to see what next year holds.

a good day

so my friend and i found a place to live. it's a 3 bedroom house, and it's pretty nice. we're both pretty excited about it. i've never lived in my own house. i mean, it's not a huge house, so it's not all that different from an apartment. but it's kind of nice that we have our own little driveway, and a garage. so that was some great news yesterday.

something else that happened yesterday was my company christmas party. now it was an alright party (free food and drinks), but what made it even better was that i won something in the raffle. and not one of the lame poinsettia plants either (my coworker and i each made a sigh of relief to each other when we did not win one of the plants. we'd rather go home empty handed than with one of those). but what i did win, is a digital camera and a printer! now i did just buy a camera not all that long ago. like 8 months maybe, if even. but i do need a printer. i can't tell if it's a regular all purpose printer, or just a photo printer. cause it shows it printing pictures on the box, but it seems awfully big compared to the other photo-only printers i've seen. so that was pretty cool, cause i never win anything.

the argentinian and i also went to this thing for his work as well. which had more free food and drinks, but by that time, i was full. i could barely eat a couple of egg rolls.

overall, it was a lot of fun and a lot of good news.

moving

i'm going to be moving in less than 10 days. i have done hardly any packing. i've managed to move a few things into the argentinian's house (i'm living with him temporarily). things that are moved: a few pairs of tennis shoes, my one and only plant, a night stand, some books/magazines, movies, and enough clothes that i've managed to get by lately when i stay over. i'm starting to actually worry that i haven't done more. i'm not really great at the whole packing and moving thing. in fact, i'm kind of bad about it. i'm a huge procrastinator when it comes to that sort of thing. last time i moved, i was there til super late at night moving stuff. luckily my nice brother was there helping me. i don't want this to happen this time. that's why i initially wanted to bring stuff over a little at a time. that hasn't worked out quite like i planned. i guess this week i need to really buckle down and do that. ugh...i HATE packing. it's the worst.

you're such a gamer

so over the thanksgiving holiday, when i was up in sacramento, i experienced something new. that new thing was the nintendo wii. after waiting what seemed like hours for my brother to get it all set up and updated, we (my brothers, s-i-l, argentinian and me. and later on my mom) all sad down for some fun. you get to create little game people that look like you. so we each took our turn, disagreeing over what our height, eyes, or hair should look like (i swear they were going to have me look like a baby next to all of them). one of the cool things, is it comes with this sports game that lets you pick from like four or five different sports, and it's really realistic as far as the little character of you moving the same as the real you does. it was also super hilarious to see my mom playing the tennis game. she gets so into it, practically running around the family room like it was a tennis court (even after you tell her she can really just move her hand/arm around). every time my mom plays video games with us it cracks me up. we had one of those fighting type games before, like mortal kombat or whatever, and we got my mom to play. she actually beat us sometimes. she's better than you'd think.

forever...

it's been like a month since i've updated this thing. i don't know why, since i've actually started a post since the last one a couple times. but stuff always got in the way. like my boss coming around, a power outage at work, ect. maybe i should stop trying to update when i'm at work. a novel idea i'm sure i won't hold to. but i guess once i'm home from work i don't always think of something interesting to post about. anyways...here's a quick update on my life (for those who care, and don't already know):

first of all, i am moving. not to a new state or anything like that. or even really to a new city (though technically it is a different town or whatever). i will also be living with a new roommate. while things with the roommate i have now are fine (how could they be bad when i'm hardly even home after all) i am going to be living with one of my friends. so that will be fun.

things with the argentinian are going very well. he came up to sacramento with me for thanksgiving at my mom's house. he met my brothers and sister-in-law (it's still very weird to me that my brother is actually married...not like i thought he was an unmarriable kind of guy, but it's just weird), and everybody really likes him. which came as no surprise to me, since he's a pretty likable guy. i don't know if anyone i've introduced him to has ever not liked him. so he's now met my entire family. i have yet to meet his. though i did talk to his mom once on IM, only for like a minute though. he also got to meet more of my friends, but not all of them unfortunately. one's pregnancy, and another's mix up of the time made it so we couldn't all meet up together. i'm going to be staying with him for a couple weeks until i move into my new place. it's going to save me hundreds of dollars, so i was muy grateful he was happy to let me do that. he's the best boyfriend ever.

other than that, nothing really new with my life. though i do plan to try and update this more often. i feel kind of bad (even though i don't really have a reason besides p.bear asking for updates) i haven't done it more often. for like a month or something. crazy.