Happy New Year 2011!

Wow I haven't been here in FOREVER!! And its been more than a year I think!

I didn't do my christmas movie list or anything cool at all. But hey, how about the year in review!

Yes! Lets do my year-in-review for 2010:

1. January
-Extreme Makeover Home Edition! I took a week off work and spent the best 7 days of the year building a 6000+ squarefoot room for a very deserving family. Here's a picture slideshow. Got to meet Ty, Tracy, Paul, Michael, and Jessica Alba. ...and I took the giant EXHE Spectator Viewing Area sign. Its in my room right now.

2. February
-Saw my brother for the first time in many many years.
-QUIT MY JOB!!! WOOOOOO!! But it was sad to not be able to see the awesome Kat everyday anymore.
-Started a new job and learned how awesome it is NOT to drive.

3. March
-end of Rodeo season
-having fun rocking out with my new band
-new job is cool
-catchup with the marine
-went to visit my brother again
-finally realize what an ass he is, and know that the friendship is ending

4. April
-Viewing party for EXHE: Beach Family, episode 719! I appeared for two seconds.
-the friendship is over

5. May
-Birthday! Took 'Osaka' out to the Hard Rock cafe.

6. June
-prepping for moving

7. July
-the band loses its practice venue, and we don't see much of eachother.
-MOVING

8. August
-Preparations for our 2nd annual Extra Life fundraising gaming marathon! http://extralife.sarcasticgamer.com - moving in/settling in has put much prep-work behind schedule.

9. September
-The past few months without talking to him were fine, and he decides he wants to patch it up this month. Didn't last long, as he screws it up on my birthday next month.

10. October
-EXTRALIFE! Team JenRei raises $223 for our local Children's Miracle Network Hospital - Texas Children's Hospital! 27 hours of gaming all for charity!
-Birthday sushi celebration!
-Texas Renaissance Festival with Rei!
-saw my brother again
-no more of him, courtesy of his girlfriend's grudge against someone she hasn't even seen in years.

11. November
-went to visit my brother again
-happy thanksgiving!
-carpooling for long distance trips is not fun. Seriously.
-Camping with the Marine! 17+ hours in the cold and rain with total strangers, and it was fantastic! Plus we came out on all the tv stations so woot!

12. December
-visit to bro again
-post office lost the marine's package - specifically the newspaper clippings of our camping expo
-heard from my other brother that i hadn't heard from in years. Found out I have a niece, and that my nephew was the posterchild for a city-wide charitable campaign.
-his chickenshit ass had someone else call me to say he wanted to wish me a happy new year. When I hung up, he did not cross my mind, as he hasn't since he screwed me over on my birthday.

happy new year peeps!

New Year Stuff

The New Year was brought in over omelets and coffee at a 24 hour diner hidden in a remote yet semi-accessible corner of the world. The staff was counting down the seconds, and I actually was in mid-sentence talking about economics while still trying to swallow my mushroom stuffed egg when the actual 'bell dropped'.

Gotta say.... it didn't feel much different than when I was chewing it 5 seconds before.

Then I got a phone call.... and I went as fast as I could to get home and grab my camera equipment, and then I drove 5 hours to go see a dear friend off to California. Had to grab the equipment to take a family portrait of her family, and so I can get the once-a-year picture with her that I've been lucky to get sometimes more than once a year, since I hardly see her, what with her joining the marines and all.

Then I drove 5 hours back home to be "two of five" people that had to work Friday. ;)

We're only on day three of the new year, but in these three days I feel like I've just been going 100 miles an hour.

That's a good thing, I think....

So to start the weekend off.... last night I ran into someone that gave me a key to a door that goes to a certain time frame in my past. It got locked long ago, and I've always wondered what happened to those who exist behind it.

Today I'm going to use the key.

How's the new year going for everyone else?

Sorry about the Christmas background still being up. I'm actually looking at it this way: My Christmas tree is still up. I'm sure most of the world's trees are still up. So I'm going to try and motivate myself and leave the christmas background here. Now maybe when I log in and say, "oh no! i still have this christmas background when christmas is over and done with," then perhaps I'll also say, Hey the Christmas tree is still up too.... I should take it down.

Fortune time:

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