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I don’t know why I am amazed at this, but Heinz unvailed a new type of ketchup packet today that I find genious. It’s called the “Dip & Squeeze” and I feel dumb for not thinking of this.

Let’s take a look:

Pretty niffty if you ask me. You can peel back the label and dip your fries this is kinda nice if you are eating in the back of the car.

or you can tear off the top and squeeze out the ketchup

 

 

 

 

 

The best part is each packet hold up to 3X more ketchup! That’s what makes me excited since I use at least 10 packets for fries.

You can read more about this new ketchup packet and another new product called Simply Heinz, which is made with sugar at Heinz’s website by clicking HERE. This will open a new window.

Here’s so generic footage Heinz released from Business Wire:

Heinz Dip & Squeeze Ketchup Packet

So what do you think of this new ketchup packet?

Today, I do not care about an animal seeing its shadow; I care about what’s inside a smoke monster or more specifically what it is as today is the beginning of the end of one of my favorite TV shows, LOST!

On Twitter people are quoting lines from an awful Bill Murray movie and think they are being wacky and funny, but it’s a little annoying and just needs to stop, because no one cares that much and is Bill Murray even relevant anymore?

Didn’t think so?

So, previously on LOST we saw Juliet pound the hydrogen bomb with a rock and we got a white screen left to wonder, if the plan worked. Did the hydrogen bomb reset the timeline for our castaways returning them to their rightful place in time? Did the bomb not explode? Or did something else entirely happen? Well if you saw the first 4 minutes that were “leaked” (BTW folks ABC totally leaked that for you) you kind of know the answer to this.

The first hour was premiered in Hawaii the other day and based on the Tweets from the premiere the first hour sounds like it’s going to be a blast. There are spoilers out there for the first hour, but I refuse to read them though an annoying co-worker keeps going around saying “I know what happens on LOST tonight. Do you want to know?” I now know that co-worker has the mind of a 7 year-old, a really dumb 7 year-old with no social skills.

Anywho, I know not all of the questions won’t be answered for me in this final season, but here are a few questions I want answered by the end of the season:

1)      What the hell do the numbers mean? I mean they constantly use these numbers, so it has to have some meaning right?

 

2)      Who or what is the Smoke Monster? Is it another form of the man in black, can’t be because that’s the fake Locke, right? Is it another form of Jacob? Please tell me what it is

 

3)      Who were the Adam and Eve Skeletons? Were they someone the castaways knew?

 

4)      I know everyone hated Nikki and Pablo, I sure did, but if the timeline was reset I would like to know what happened to them. Because if it was reset did all the people that died really die? Charlie, Doc Artz, Boone (who was confirmed to be coming back)?

 

5)      Richard Alpert? Who is he, and what is part in the island mythology?

If those 5 questions are answered then I will be happy with this season. I’ll let the rest of the unknown answers surprise me.

If you are a true LOST fan then I know you probably read Doc Jensen and his ramblings on EW.com. If not Doc and Dan Snierson premiere their first episode of “Totally Lost” today, you can click HERE to view.

So what questions do you want answered in this finale season of LOST? Let everyone know in the comments section.

            The U.S. has some odd rules in its history and some states do too. We’ve probably all have read on of those “crazy, but true law” books, read them online or had someone tell us on and responded, “that’s not true,” to just be proven wrong. The best example I can think of is in the state of New Jersey you cannot pump your own gas, which to everyone around here in Western Pennsylvania can’t wrap their minds around that, maybe because it seems lazy to us, but it’s true, you can’t pump your own gas in New Jersey.

            Well the U.S. seems to have problems revising some laws as a 1938 law is preventing one of the best candies from being sold in the U.S. That candy is the Kinder Egg.

            The Kinder Egg, also known as Kinder Surprise, originated in Germany. It’s a chocolate that hides a capsule inside that contains a toy, usually one that needs assembled. Think of it as a Cadbury Crème egg with a plastic mini-egg inside instead of cream. They are delicious and fun. People collect the toys that remind me of old McDonald’s happy meal toys sometimes.

            So why is this little piece of heaven not available in the U.S.? Well the 1930 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic act prohibits placing anything “non-nutritive items in confections.” Sad, but true, thank you 1938. It’s not like they haven’t been sold in the U.S. before though. Import shops use to carry them until 1997 when the Consumer Product Safety Commission deemed them unsafe for small parts that little kids may chock one. Mind you Kinder Eggs came out in the 1970s and it took over 20 years for them to be completely banned.

           Nestle had  a product called the Nestle Magic, it was very similar to the Kinder Egg, except it was completely round in shape. It was covered with a thin layer of milk chocolate and had the plastic ball underneath, which contained a figure form one of Disney’s many animated films.

         Due to the 1997 Consumer Product Safety Commissions recall they were quickly pulled, which was unfortunate because they were a really great idea. In 2000 Nestle revived the Magic as the Nestle Wonderball, same concept but install of a plastic ball with a figure, it was hollowed chocolate ball with Disney characters in candy form, think SweetTarts flavor meets Flintstone Vitamins shapes that came with a collectible sticker. Not as cool as the collectable character.

            You can find some of the Nestle Magic toys on Ebay. If you search, it was so short lived they are pretty collectable. You can sometimes find a Kinder Egg in the U.S., but the store might not know, or the may, that it’s illegal to sell them. The closest place you can find Kinder Eggs is Canada. It’s sad you can’t find them here. Don’t get all, “well kids can choke on the toys” on me. Use common sense and don’t by little kids these and let them put tiny things in their mouths. Just like don’t stick marbles up your nose, gold star to whoever gets that reference.

         Has anyone ever had a Kinder Egg, or remember the Nestle Magic? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Sometimes I get fascinated with a concept I become borderline obsessed with it then my ADD kicks in and I move on to something else. I’m like a little kid who can be distracted by shiny objects at times, but then 6 months to a year later I pick up on it again. I use to do this with video games. I would play one game for months no matter how many times I would beat the game then I would get so bored with it I would just toss it aside and be all, “This game is so boring. Why am I even playing it?” Though it did entertain me for a good long while, I was really over it.

I wouldn’t call it a habit, but it still happens today. I will be so involved in a game, project or something around the house (like remodeling my bedroom) then I will just stop, I want to continue but for some reason I just can’t. I do this when I blog. I have so many ideas written down on what to write about and when I got to write, I say to myself, “I’ll write this tomorrow.” Then I never do. I get distracted with other minor things and then it just sounds like making excuses for not writing, but I just can’t. It’s hard to describe. I get everything ready from pictures or a YouTube video and then when I go to write the post that I have been formulating in my head from hour to days it’s like my mind let’s out a giant brain fart and poof their goes the desire to write and post.

Yet, when I am at work I want to write and post things. I find articles and other things I share on Twitter and people will respond to them and I feel like I should expand on my Twitter comment later when I get home so I can pull the images and videos I need since my job pretends to like communication and sharing thoughts and ideas, yet blocks the tools to do so, and then I just don’t do it. I don’t know what prevents me from doing so something just clicks in my brain and is all like, “Nope you’re not going to do it, go play Mega Man 3 on the Wii, Dr. Wily awaits. Look at the flashy screen the fast moving colors…what was I going to do again oh yeah Mega Man 3?” Evil laugh from my brain :Mwahahaha: because it clearly won again.

There are so many videos I want to make and projects I want to do but I don’t know what’s preventing me from accomplishing these things. I start working on them then poof. This happens when I have to do things like update my resume because it hasn’t been done in months. I think I look awful on paper, but I tend to way tougher on myself then other people are to me. This probably sounds awful, but I laugh at my resume, not because I think it’s bad but how random it is.

I have a B.A in Journalism only because my concentration was Advertising and PR, and I never claim to be a journalist and find most people that are “journalists” annoying and out of touch with the people they write for. I have an MBA in Sports, Arts and Entertainment Management. My work experience includes a long stint at an amusement park, then a radio station, retail and the banking industry. The plus side to all of this is I know a lot of random crap. It has its positives and negatives to knowing randomness.

I feel it’s better to know a lot of random things then just one thing. Because no one really cares if you can find a dangling participle, it’s something you don’t brag about, yet I know some people who are grammar Nazi’s and it drives me nuts. Instead of enjoying a funny story or column you get, “Well their comma usage is atrocious and their sentence structure isn’t perfect.” At that point I just sigh and say never mind, thanks for being a writing douche. I feel people write to share and if a person can’t lighten up and if the only thing a person can do while reading is criticize how something is written or if a comma is out of place, well then they got some issues. The funny part is the people who think they are the kings and queens of grammar can’t take the criticism when they make a mistake and I usually find their writing boring.

Well how was that for random post? There’s  probably two posts in this, but I don’t care. It’s what I was thinking and that’s what part of this blog is about.

If you watched the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien one of his first guests was Tom Hanks, who personally, I haven’t enjoyed in a movie since Big, but I find him funny in interviews like the one he had with O’Brien which he start calling Conan “CoCo” the audience loved it and people have called him CoCo since then.

In this “late night” TV ward where ever NBC show is hitting the Network hard with jokes about them (look at the SNL promos this week) it’s time to take sides. As you can tell by the title of this blog you know where I stand.

As a fan of late night comedy TV, I’ve enjoyed Conan since he took over the Tonight Show, sure some things fall flat, but it takes time to develope a show, look how long it took him to become popular on Late Night. So today I choose to side with Conan and really hope they fire Leno, because he’s not amusing, but still better than Letterman.

Tonight begins the 9^th season of American Idol and probably the first season with a drastic change. I know they added a 4^th judge last year, but to me that is not as drastic as the loss of an original judge, Paula Abdul, the addition of comedian/talk show host Ellen Degeneres and the announcement this will be Simon Cowell leaving the Idol judging panel after this season to bring his British hi ‘The X Factor’ to America in 2011.

Good move for Simon, but I don’t think it’s the end of Idol.

Not yet at least.

Being a fan of the show since the beginning I can point to the bad, Wild Card Rounds, Katharine McPhee V.S. Taylor Hicks, Ryan Seascrest’s frosted tipped hair in season 2 and the good, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Chris Daughtry, Adam Lambert (yes, his CD is really good), Melinda Doolittle, and if you can’t tell there has been a lot more good than bad in the past 8 seasons.

So, why won’t idol just go away after Simon leaves? The show pulls in 20+ million viewers an episode, and is a cash cow for Fox. It’s not going anywhere until something beats it in the rating and beats them badly. Secondly, the show is not about the judges for me. I tend to disagree with them a lot, they have been known to push certain people that are considered marketable, and they are not what the shows about. The show is about singing and I think many Americans forget that quite often, look at the Sanjaya fiasco in season 6, it was funny for a moment then it got old fast and yes better singers went before the screech fest that was Sanjaya was sent packing.

I hope Ellen actually judges. I know she was brought in to be the “nice” judge, but based on her appearance this summer on ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ I don’t have high hopes, but I will give her credit she can be entertaining, I hope her Idol judging seat doesn’t turn into an HBO Comedy Special like on ‘Dance.’

If there was one judge I would like to see go it would be Randy, who hasn’t had an original quote or though since season 2. I’m sick of hearing “you can sing the telephone book dog, but…” It’s old and over like his career. Randy in season 9 could you please be original and to Kara, please don’t ever write or co-write the winners song ever again.

Tonight starts with the Boston Audition round with guest judge Victoria Beckham. Should be interesting, but these audition rounds have lost their luster; let’s see if the producers can make them interesting again. They tend to follow people who make it past this round and tell their whole story during Hollywood week and then they don’t make top 24 and the audience is like ‘Why did you spend 6 weeks telling us their story?” Let’s find out about the contestants who actually make the show than ones that came close.

So another season begins tonight. I’ll be watching, but will you?

My co-worker, Kristine, said the other day said to me, “So, now that you’re done with grad school, what are your goals? Like what’s your 5-year plan?”

I gave her a look, which I often give to people and if you know me you’ve scene it before, the look of “you’re kidding right? :eye roll:” Yeah, the eye roll is a bad habit of mine, but I’m not one to hide his feelings on something. I replied to her, “I hate that question.”

Yes, I hate the “what’s your 5/10 year plan?” question. I don’t like to predict the future for myself and I don’t let “fate” take me wherever it wants, typically I find people who wait for something to happen usually get left behind.

I don’t believe in making plans for myself, because “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” When that happens you gotten continually change and adapt.

Yesterday, I work I let it slip (mostly on purpose) that I wanted to find a new job by the end of the year. It’s not because I hate the company I work for or my current job, I just want to do something different and maybe more in tune with what I spent the last year in grad school doing. I mean how many people have a MBA in Sports, Arts and Entertainment Management? Not a lot, because my school is the only one in the country to offer it. It just feels like time to do something different.

My boss found it kind of surprising that I said I was looking for a new job, she said I couldn’t leave, I just laughed, but she knew this was coming and she knows I’m not one to hide my feelings or thoughts.

So what do I want to do?

Well, there lies the problem.  I’m not 100% sure. I’ve always been one of those people who learn about a lot of subjects and then fill the gaps as needed. I’ve narrowed down the companies and organizations I would like to work for to a select few, but looking at their job databases it’s hard to figure out exactly where I would fit and what job would be suited for me. I look at most jobs and think I can do that. When I started at my current company no one trained me, I learned the product and created procedures by myself, I had a few guidelines, but I learned everything by asking people questions and using commonsense. If you make mistakes, they are fixable no matter how badly someone blows the issue out of proportion ( :cough: sales people :cough: ), because that’s how I, and most people, learn.  

So, that’s where my thinking is right now, trying to figure out details and something new I want to try. If I set I goal it’s not 5/10 years out it’s for the 1 year at most. It’s all about enjoying the journey, not the end. If you haven’t realized that yet, you’re probably falling behind as we all ready know what the end is…right?

So am I crazy for not setting 5/10 year goals? Suggestions?

So long 2009, I bid thee farewell.

I wish I could say 2009 was a superawesomefantastico year, but I can’t, but what I can say it was pretty darn good to me.

In January I started Graduate school and now at the end of 2009 I finished Grad school in just one year and have an MBA in Sports, Arts and Entertainment Management. Now how many people have an MBA in that specialty? It was long and there were times I threw up my hands and said why did I do this, but in the end I’m glad I did and I’m the first person in my family (at least between my sister and me) that has an MBA. No I just got to figure out what to do next.

2009 was an excellent sports year in Pittsburgh. I got to see the Steelers win their 2nd Super Bowl in my lifetime and saw the Penguins when their 3rd Stanley Cup. I don’t think Pittsburghers realize how lucky they are. My dad said he never though he would see the Steelers win another Super Bowl in his lifetime after the win in Detroit in 2005, but he did and that’s coming from someone who’s only 48.

2009 at work was with it’s ups and downs. The current project I’m working on gets more frustrating everyday, but I’ll live and in 2010 I think it might be time to move on, it just feels right, but we’ll see. My second I still love, who knew I would like retail so much, but I think it’s because of the people I work with, they are just so much fun. I wish more people would come by and shop, but it’s still realzing to me and hasn’t gotten old.

2009 was also a big travel year for me. I didn’t leave the US but I flew to Florida 3 times this year and California once. I also got two knew airport credits (DFW and Santa Anna/Orange County/John Wayne) and a new hotel credit (HoJo Anahiem). I love traveling and hope to do more in 2010, I know there is a trip to Vegas scheduled for May and I hope to visit places I haven’t been to in years. On top of that list would be New York City and Toronto.

 The world was odd in 2009, but in the end we survived another year and that is really what matters.

So long 2009, you were a fun year and I hope 2010 is better not just for you too!

Happy New Year Everyone!

It’s that time of the year to make lists apparently. This year is a little different because not only are you getting the best/worst of 2009 but you’re also finding the best/worst of the last decade.

It’s no secret that I am a fan of TV; I love a good sitcom/drama/reality TV show and so on. I always say everything that you need to know in life you can find on TV since a lot of lessons learned throughout history are updated for the current generation.

So this list is going to be that will make you think. It’s the top 12 shows of the last decade that we’re canceled too soon, rated by me.

We lost some really good shows that didn’t pick up enough steam to be renewed. Some were cancelled after 1 or 2 showings to never be seen again, not even burned off in the summer.

So we salute these gone too soon shows:

12) You Don’t Know Jack (ABC Summer 2001)

 

Paul Rubens aka Pee-Wee Herman hosted this game show based on the popular PC Game. It only last 6 episodes, but I was entertained by it. Rubens added just the right amount of wackiness that fit the computer games charm.

 

11) Wonderfalls (Fox 2004)

 

This Fox show was delayed from 2003 and aired in 2004 by Fox and only lasted 4 episodes. It was witty and charming. The premise was a recent Brown University graduate, with philosophy degree, who holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop. Jaye is the reluctant participant in conversations with various animal figurines — a wax lion, brass monkey, stuffed bear, and mounted fish, among others — which direct her via oblique instructions to help people in need.

This was created by Bryan Fuller and Ted Holland and starred actor Lee Pace. Fuller also created Pushing Daisies which Pace also starred in.

10) The Mole (ABC 2001-2004, 2008)

The Mole was one of my favorite reality series and introduced us to, at the time, a little used ABC News correspondent Anderson Cooper. Contestants traveled the world to participate in tasked that earned money for “the pot.” These tasks were usually timed and various rewards and distractions would hinder the team performance. While these tasks were going on one member of the team was “the Mole,” a saboteur whose missions was to make the team fail the task and take money from the pot.

At the end of each episode all players would take a quiz about the identity of the Mole, the person who scored the lowest would be “executed” and leave the game. The only exception to this is if a person earned an exemption in the task and they were free from taking the quiz.

You may be wondering why this show is on here when it ran for 5 seasons. Well I only count the first two with Anderson Cooper. The next two were “celebrity” hosted by Ahmad Rashad and won by Kathy Griffin and Dennis Rodman. The 5 series was hosted by John Kelly and only lasted 10 episodes of the summer of 2008.  

9) Invasion (ABC 2005)

 

This ABC show starring Eddie Cibrian (Third Watch, Sunset Beach) only lasted one season, and that’s a shame because by the end of the series it became so good I was hooked, that is if it was on when it was suppose to be.

Somewhat similar to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the show told the story of the aftermath of a hurricane in which water-based creatures infiltrate a small Florida town and begin to take over the bodies of the town’s inhabitants through a cloning process (first by merging with and then unknowingly replacing them).

The first episode premiered with 17 million viewers then slowly lost its audience. By the 10^th episode viewership was in the 10 million range at that point ABC put the show on hiatus until January of 2006, when Invasion returned the audience was hovering around 9 million and was once again put on hiatus and aired the final episodes aired in May of 2006 with a cliffhanger.  

8 ) The Comeback (HBO Summer 2005)

This HBO show starred Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish is a D-grade actress who had it all. From 1989 until 1992, Valerie starred on a sitcom known as I’m It! The show was a hit during its initial run, but fell just three episodes shy of reaching syndication status.

The show had a spot right after Entourage but failed to gain an audience. I have to admit when I first watched the show I thought it was awful, but I continuously watched and each episode got better and better. It’s a shame it got cancelled after its 13^th episode as The Comeback made a comeback at the end of the season. If HBO gave it a second season I believe it would’ve been like NBC’s Parks and Recreation which, in its second season, is one of the best shows on network TV.

What also made this show unique was the way it was shot. Single camera reality TV style.

7) Traveler (ABC Summer 2007)

Jay Burchell and Tyler Fog, two graduate students who become suspects when the fictitious Drexler Museum in New York is bombed while they are pulling a juvenile prank. Jay is a graduate of Yale Law School, while Tyler is a graduate of the Yale School of Management. It appears that their friend, Will Traveler (aka Daniel Taft), set them up to look like the terrorists who did the bombing. After the bombing, Traveler disappears and there is no evidence that he ever existed.

It was full of action and had a decent mystery and it was a summer series. Sometimes I wish networks would realize that some shows just belong in the summer time. I’m looking at you Fox for moving So You Think You Can Dance to the Fall this year. Traveler only lasted the 8 episodes that were ordered but David DiGilio posted an answer blog that gave an end to the series.

6) Reunion (Fox 2005)

The story of high school friends, murder and mystery. Really that is what Reunion was about a set of high school friends, one was murdered and a series of who dun nit questions. What was unique is that each episode took you through one year from 1986-2006 to the 20^th year reunion. But we never made it there as fox cancelled the show after the episode called 1994. So we found out who was murdered, but never found out who did it. This is why people have a hard time investing in shows today. Viewers get attached then networks cancel them with no closure.

5) Murder in Small Town X (Fox 2001)

Probably on of the best produced reality shows ever. Critically hailed, but little watched. Murder in Small Town X (MiSTX) was a reality show that started with 10 contestants who had to solve a murder in, guess what, a small Maine Fishing village. The townspeople were all improv actors who played parts in the story. It was like a mystery dinner theater in real life, but a million times better. It was just crafted so well. At the end of each episode two people would be sent out to investigate two different areas. They had a 50/50 shot of returning as one would be “murdered” by the killer. The murder scenes were a little scary as you saw the contestant getting caught through the killers’ eyes, but it made for some damn good TV.

 

The winner was crowned on September 4^th, 2001 and that was Angel Juarbe Jr. He won $250,000. The sad part was a week later Juarbe was a New York City Firefighter and lost his life a week later at the World Trade Center attacks.

 

4) Samantha Who? (ABC 2007-2009)

 

Christina Applegate starred as Samantha Newly, who’s character was basically a bitch before a car accident that left her with amnesia and couldn’t remember who she was anymore. and therefore set out to make amends and become a better daughter to her somewhat dysfunctional parents, played by Kevin Dunn and the always funny Jean Smart.

 

It was clever and entertaining and shame on ABC for screwing with its schedule so much it left people searching for the show. Samantha Who? was cancelled in May 2009.

 

3) The Nine (ABC 2006)

 

Nine, mostly strangers, find themselves in the middle of a bank robbery gone wrong and are held hostage. Each Episode pieced together what happened to each character during the standoff and added additional information to why the robbery occurred in the first place. This was one of those shows that had a great cast, Tim Daly (Private Practice), Kim Raver (Grey’s Anatomy, Lipstick Jungle), Scott Wolf (Party of Five, V) and Chi McBride (Pushing Daisies, Boston Legal) Owain Yeoman (The Mentalist), but never found an audience and we never found out what exactly happened. Thanks ABC for leaving me wondering 3 years later what happened.

 

2) Freaks and Geeks (NBC 2000)

Well it was actually 1999 but gets a slide because it was cancelled in 2000. Freak and Geeks was only aired 12 of its 18 episodes, but the final 6 were burned off in July of 2000 because of fan demand. The full season is available on DVD, so this classic can be watched over and over again. Freaks and Geeks introduced us to actors such as Linda Cardellini, James Franco, Jason Segel and Seth Rogen.

 

It was high school as it was and probably still is. NBC missed the boat by cancelling this great show, but hey we got some great movies from the actors in this show.

1) Pushing Daisies (ABC 2007-2009)

 

This was probably the best show on television, then the writers strike happened and ABC waited until the next season to air the new season instead of running it after the strike was resolved. Kristin Chenoweth stole the second season of this quirky show as the waitress of the Pie Hole who pined after bakery Ned, who had the ability to make the dead come alive with one touch. But the down side was he had to touch them again before a minute was up or someone else would die. It was quirky, it was sad; it was happy and just delightful. With Swoozie Kurtz, Chi McBride, Lee Pace, Ellen Green and Anna Friel the cast was amazing and watching the show in HD was amazing as the sets were full of color and amazing shots.

 

They said it was cancelled due to low ratings, well it didn’t get the pimping it did for the second season as it did for the first and yes, the writers strike messed the whole flow up and the time in between new shows was too long.

 

But it will remain one of my all-time favorite TV shows that was taken away too soon.

 Honerable mentions go to Moonlight and Tru Calling

So how was your Christmas?

I hope it was good. I got my Keurig Mini-coffee maker from my sister and was thrilled. Though I don’t drink coffee, I do drink teas and hot chocolate and I have had about 20 cups since Christmas Eve when I got my gift.

Why Christmas Eve?

Well when my sister (Becky) and I were younger we use to have those in school “Santa’s Workshop” days where your parents gave you like $20 and you bought a bunch of crap for your family. Becky and I would then pass them out to our family, my dad’s side, on Christmas Eve that why they would get presents from use the day before and Christmas morning was spent opening up everything my parents, grandparents and aunt and uncle bought us. Christmas Eve was the time Becky and I exchanged presents with each other.

It became a tradition, even though my dad just wants to open everything on Christmas Eve because he says he wants to sleep in on Christmas, though the man can’t sleep past 7AM when we do presents at 9.

As we aged we’ve up graded the presents from random mugs and picture frames to clothes, golf clubs, and even a computer. Yes, a computer. We bought it for my parents a few years ago.  Don’t know if it was the wisest thing in the world, but we did it.

On Christmas I opened up a Wii. I was excited, but I find it funny when my parents said they didn’t know what to get me so they got me a Wii. If I was younger still and asked for a Wii, my parent’s would probably have looked at each other and rolled their eyes, but when you’re 28 and they have no clue on what to get you apparently video games systems are the way to go. I was excited for the Wii and have been playing it since Christmas Day, it’s like I’m 14 again playing on my N64.

Best. System. Ever!

So those were my main gifts on Christmas I did get a nice Penguins hoodie too! Can’t go wrong with a Pens hoodie.

So how was your Christmas and can you believe it’s almost 2010?

Where has the decade gone?

Which also means I graduated high school 10 years ago. Wow.

:blink:

That’s still odd to me, but I know we will not have a reunion as my senior class did not like each other that well and the people in charge did nothing with our class, except design the crappiest senior t-shirts ever and they wonder why no one bought them. Shooting stars are not something everyone would want to wear on a t-shirt.

Later this week my top memories from the last decade.

Mark