Dad ended up spoiling all of us. Allie and I got iPads! I also got a Tassimo, MW3, Zelda Skyward Sword, 7th Season of Entourage, fluffy blankets, and hello kitty items from my dad too. My brother Mike and his fiancée Allie got me 8GB of RAM for my laptop and a water fountain for Harry. My brother Matt got me a hello kitty house key and a pimp cup that says sexy bitch LOL – his girlfriend got me $25 for the LCBO too.

I got so much, I can’t complain at all. Christmas dinner was good too of course ;)

After having 2 days off, I gotta go back to work tomorrow. Only a 3 day work week, so it’s not too bad…. I gotta work on new years eve though… Sucks.. Oh well…

I go back to school on January 4th…. My last semester of my Multimedia program…

I still don’t remember my password to log onto my website or FTP.. so I’m stuck with this damn layout. Oh welly

What’s new with me since I last update? Well since I last update, it was NOVEMBER! It is now January 2010! Been a while! ;)

School: First semester went well. I ended up pretty much acing most of my classes, ended up with a 4.0 GPA and on the honor roll. Go me! pfft… no, but really.. that has never happened to me before. The last time I was “smart” was when I was in grade 2.. in 1992! HAHAHAHAHA  Even in the family, good grades only happened to my oldest of brothers. My other brother and I were the … underachievers or just lazy. heh

Christmas was okay. I’ve never really gotten into the holiday season since my mom died 2 years ago. Since she passed in December, it’s very hard for my family and I to celebrate. So we just had a low-key Christmas, exchanged gifts with the immediate family, and had a nice dinner.

I also went on holiday the last week of December! Went to Vancouver with Laur to visit Kiki!!! We had a blast! BC is so much different than anywhere on the East Coast. It’s so beautiful! As soon as the pilot announced that we were landing soon, we checked out the window.. and I was in AWE. The MOUNTAINS! My gosh. I don’t remember seeing mountains quite like it. So pretty! It is also insanely clean on the streets of Vancouver. EVERYWHERE. No garbage, no smellyness… It’s so different than Toronto. I would love to move there, if I had the money to.. and a got a job there. New years was good, we all dressed up and partyed at Kira’s place. It was fun.

Semester 2 started up this week. I’ve only had 3 classes out of the 6.. but it seems to be going well. I have a lot of fun classes to look forward to! I even get to learn about … Photoshop. HAHAHAHA I’m aiming for high 90′s in that course! Wish me luck! lmao ….

So how was everyones Christmas? Hope it was good! Mine  was pretty good. Time spent with the family. Opening up presents, eating a delicious turkey dinner and watching some movies together. I got a pretty good haul this year and I was very surprised. My dad went all out on us, so much of what I got was from him. I got $350 worth of Gift Cards (Best Buy, La Senza, Petro Canada, Starbucks & Cineplex), $200 in cash, Books; Stephanie Meyer’s Host, Tori Spelling’s Bio [sTORI TELLING], Animal Crossing City Folk Guide book & Sophie Kinsella’s Remember Me?). 2x 2GB SD cards (for my Nintendo Wii), Card Reader, PS3 Game; Little BIG Planet, Neat little gadgets; Lock De-Icer w/ light, Light/laser pointer, Magnetic Sculpture, Portable [windup] cellphone charger. and Candy/Chocolate..

For Boxing Day, I used my Best Buy gift cards online and picked up another External Hard Drive. It was only $80! It is coming today in the mail. *EXCITED* AND I saw a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert with my dad. It was pretty amazing! I took some videos and pictures. Pictures are on Facebook if you wanna check there. Video.. well I uploaded 1 song I took while I was there.

Tomorrow is NEW YEARS EVE! What is everyone doing? I’m going downtown to a club and staying in a hotel with friends. We’re going to Circa Nightclub. Surprise surprise! LOL. It shall be a crazy night, that place never fails to please me.

Well I will cut this short. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and will have a great new years. Stay safe everyone. Happy New Years. All the best to you!

Upgrade #2 – I really want to upgrade my current BlackBerry Pearl to the new BlackBerry Storm. My only dilemma is that I still have a contract with my current provider, and I would have to pay the total phone price. Which is $599. Way overpriced for my liking. I’ve looked at forums to see if there is anyway to get it for cheaper, and there is one way. I would have to call client care, and basically demand that I get some sort of discount. I’ve read that some people have gotten from $50-400 credit. It all depends on luck, and if the CSR is willing to go out of their way for you. *sigh. I think it would still mean I’d have to front the entire sum though. Which I do not have right now. Ugh…. who knows

Upgrade #3 – My computer has been pissing me off lately. I always go through this with every one of my computers I’ve had in the past. They break down at the year mark. BUT thankfully my computer has made it past that. BUY MAC! .. but it doesn’t have enough memory for the all the things I do on it. I like multi-tasking, and like having everything running at once, for convenience. I find I have to “Force quit” a lot of apps, because my computer isn’t running fast enough & I wait a while for a lot of things. It’s annoying me. I’ve almost bought a new laptop through Dell… even when I thought I couldn’t bare to switch back to PC.. PC’s are cheap! So now I’ve been looking into Referb’d MacBook Pros.. You save A LOT of money. Sometimes even over a $1000… you get the same warranty too and the same option for AppleCare.

I gotta win the lottery or marry a very wealthy man. LMAO. jk… not about the lottery thing though ;) I bought my Trans-Siberian Orchestra tickets on the weekend. I managed to snag floor seats. $150! The concert is on December 26th. I am so excited and cant wait to see my dad’s reaction when I give them to him. EEEEEE! It’s killing me to keep this from him! Christmas is so close now. I can’t believe it’s only next week! December has really flown by!!! THANK GOD

How come ever time I log into my Word Press, there is always a new version available?! I swear I upgrade it at least every month or so. Annoying.

On Tuesday I met Tila Tequila at her book signing. She was super nice! I was pleasantly surprised since I’ve heard the opposite from everyone who has met her. LOL Maybe she kinda HAD to be nice, because everyone was buying her book. Oh well. Check out my Flickr page of the page she signed for me and my Facebook tagged videos of it. I love it!

I got through Sunday. Thank you for all your support. It means a lot to me to know that there are people here for support *HUGS* My dad, my bro Mike, his fiance’ Alison and I went up together and paid our respects. My dad read various bible versus and some other written work he found. It was very peaceful and I know that I would’ve made my mom happy to see that. We got through the blizzard and frigid temperatures (felt like -23C). lol