I just watched the South Park episode, "Dances with Smurfs," in preparation for Avatar viewing later today. Right now the biggest decision I have to make is whether I eat pizza or cinnamon toast crunch for breakfast. Aw yeah, vacation.

We spent yesterday in NYC wandering around until my sisters and I decided we couldn't take any more tourist crowds and split off to have a beer at a Rockefeller center brew house. That sort of prepared us for the surreal alternate reality that is the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular. So many legs and time steps. Glitter and Santa Clauses. Some sheep and 3 camels... wait, what? I think I've had my Rockettes fill for the decade.

I am ready to return to my life! Mom's bf and his daughters took off to get breakfast bagels, and Mom is at work, so I have a moment of solitude here, the first one since I arrived. Ahhhhhhhhh. I can't wait to see Erik tomorrow. We have specacular nye plans lined up, but as long as I get some quality snuggles, I don't care what we do. A conversation with someone that doesn't need general life updates, a hot tub, and super-freezing temperatures would be nice too.

Stomach grumbles. Time for cinammon toast crunch AND reheated pizza! No, I do NOT need to poop this week, leave me be, 'tis vacation time.

Changing communication behaviour

My new droid phone is changing the way I treat various modes of communication. You can now leave me a voicemail message from this very blog! Scroll down to the bottom of the sidebar to do it.

I also: don't check my email at the computer most of the time, treat facebook and twitter differently, and hide certain types emails from myself until I have a relaxing moment to go through them. Maybe this fancy google wave thing will change my behaviour on group projects. We'll see.

(It's the future and stuff.)

Today is a day is today.

We bottled the xmas beer yesterday. It's gonna sit in the bottles for a couple weeks, and then will be ready for sharing. Ok, so we need a label for it. I'm thinking something along the lines of a drunk reindeer drinking from a giant glass of beer. Does anyone like to draw things like that? Also, what should we call the beer?

Reindeer Ale
Reindeer Fizz
Reindeer Foam
Erik & Vanessa's Holiday Brew
Ho ho I don't know....

I had 2 good conversations today that made me very happy. I declare today, Things That Matter day. A time for talking about important things, a day for deleting mental lists of unimportant things and focusing on the good stuff.

Puddin made some tasty lasagna for house dinner last night. I am going to eat some now. Then I will continue studying hormones and the menstrual cycle, get a stylish haircut from the puddin, and, most definitely, play with my new Droid phone for a couple hours. That thing is rad. It just whispered an enticing "Droid." to me right now, letting me know it had something wonderful in store for me if only I activated its sensitive touch screen and looked inside. Oh Droid, you are technology and I am ok with that. Let's do fabulous things together. Best present ever, thanks man. I foresee my web presence heightening in the days to come. How can I resist twitter when it comes in such a colorful app on my home screen? What is to prevent me from scanning every bar code I see, when to do so pulls up search results reviewing the product? What is a girl to do, in a world where her phone can tell her what song is playing better than any human could? If the phone could offer love, there would be no more need for other people.