traffic was beeeaaauutiful this morning.
i love going to work when other people don't.
wait, no... nevermind.

anyhoo, i went shopping for christmas gifts 5 times in one week - saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday, and thursday. that is 1 or more visits to towson mall, white marsh mall, columbia mall, and lifeway christian store. i laid in bed last night trying to calculate how much damage i had done to my wallet and could hardly get myself to fall asleep afterwards. or maybe it was the off-key karaoke singing by my hyungboo and sister's friends downstairs?

hopefully today will be a short day. then i can be on vacation like everyone else!

it'll be quite a lonely christmas this year....

he makes me smile =)

nothing hits the spot quite like hot chocolate in the middle of a work afternoon.

i liked the ending of memoirs of a geisha more than anything else. i think of what a hopeless romantic i am when i find myself feeling warm and tingly at the thought of them finally together with nothing to hold them back from unleashing their fiery passion towards each other.

and this...

I awoke with tears streaming down my temples, and I took the Chairman's hand, fearing that I would never be able to live without him when he died and left me...

And yet when his death happened only a few months later, I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees...

I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth... Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories...

As a young girl I believed my life would never have been a struggle if Mr. Tanaka hadn't torn me away from my tipsy house. But now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

lobby of radisson lord baltimore.


lots of dancing!! (not us though, AHEM)


me!!


he's so greedy, look at all that dessert he brought!


this woman was so funny.. can you see she's dancing?? i think she had more fun that night than any of us!


practice before our next trip to ac.


=)


football game (thx d. dave and susan) against the texans! look how close we were this time! i was hoping to take some more pictures, but it was so friggin cold i could hardly take this one without freezing my hands.


we saw this at arundel mills. isn't it neat?


dave and busters!


let me introduce to you..... my son!


new addition to the family, perry the penguin.


mimi getting drowsy..


they look yummy~~~~~ (we made them for the hc bake sale, but i wanted to eat them all myself!)


these were the best out of them all~~~


another photo update soon!

amazon.com is addicting.

i've just spent the last hour and a half picking things out for my wish list.


and i thought i'd get some good reading done tonight.

just waiting for the movie now


what better to do in the hotel by myself than to watch martha stewart's apprentice


my friends who go with me everywhere i go, armie and tracy

i'm working on an engagement with a manager who is lesbian. i was caught completely off guard when she out of nowhere referred to her partner as a "she."

anyway, i had a really good first impression of her as a manager, but now i find myself putting less weight on what she says and giving her less credit.

i mean, i joke about it, but it makes me examine myself. sort of.


what's weird is i think i feel sorry for her too without even knowing it.


on a different note, my trip to st. louis has not been fun so far. at all. as i sat in a plane for 2 hours waiting for it to take off, stood in the bitter cold waiting for an airport shuttle, and got lost on the way to the hotel at midnight feeling desperately tired and hungry, i couldn't help but feel some resentment for what a glamorous life we live, us accountants.

who ever said accountants work behind a desk all day? can i please do that instead?