Christmas Eve Morning

YAY!  Ok ok FINE, I'm not such a scrooge anymore.  hahaha!!!  It caught up with me, just today.  So whilst I listen to my Motown-does-Christmas-songs tracklist from HERE, I will try and blog since I seem to have neglected this spot for a while.  MY BAD.

I got one of my "wishlist" things from  THIS POST.  I got my PHONE!!!  YAY!!!  But now the challenge begins with trying to move all the contacts from the old one to the other.  Perfect holiday chore as one of my FB friends said.  hahaha!!!

Some pics of the phone (that aren't mine):

FRONT view via

BACK view (with the little purrrty pinky swirls!!) via

*sigh*

I've also gotten a lovely coffee maker!!! 

Thank you to C, who, after endless hinting on my part, GOT IT. :) 

Thanks hon!!! WOOTWOOO!!!  Had my first cuppa from it this morning with E.  Egad.  I got a little too excited and made it as strong as a horse's kick in the head.  WOOHOOOOOOO!!!!

You can control the STRENGTH of the coffee!!! AHLAVEET.

I had lovely gifts from my new officemates too!!!  A lovely Pixies live CD (thankies Belle!!), a great pair of headphones (I sorely needed a new pair! Thanks to my 'daddy' Rafa) and this gigantic bucket of Mojito mix (nice one AJ).  LOVELY.  AHLAVEET!And we had the bestest Kris Kringle I've ever done in my life!  We picked out names (there are only 5 of us) and once we got our 'baby" we had to go through an ipod on shuffle, and whatever track it landed on, that would be the theme of your gift to your baby.  Just in case, you were given two chances with the track.  hahaha!  I got Reggie, and the song of the Kings of Leon, "Pistol of Fire".  So I got him this realistic looking gun that is really a lighter with blue flame.  HAHAHAH!!!  IT even had a stand!  Then of course a water gun just to put out the flames.  :)  I got the lovely headphones from Rafa, whose song was Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" :)

I'm thinking that since this Christmas I would like to be steady and quiet, that New Year should be steady still, but I would like to kick / shove / push / throw away whatever's left of 2009 into oblivion.  Considering the bad year everyone had, I think that's the best way to go.  Maybe get a room somewhere and ask everyone to just come if they're in town and BYOB?  That would be cool :)  Let's see.

Also, I thought I'd get the phoenix tattoo I've been wanting from Sarah as well.  It is a symbol of ressurection, of surviving, of the cycle of birth and death so why not?  I got both this year.  The color can wait til another time.  :)  It would symbolize a lot.

Just to post some little somethings I've happened upon during my blog reading today:

THIS POST really caught my eye. INCREDIBLE JEWELRY!

THIS POST from a favorite blog of mine, Elephantine had this lovely picture in it:

Please note the constellation cross stitching.  It has been giving me ideas for stuff to do next year.  :)

A discovery of a new BLOG.  So classy, yet raw and original.  I love it. :)

Now to prepare lunch and tackle the formatting of the new phone!!! :)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE :)