First day back into the office after Christmas and I find myself tiptoeing around the fact that most people took part of last week off for Christmas.  But of course, I don’t want to “offend” anyone by asking them how their Christmas was if they don’t celebrate it.  This makes it very awkward in trying to find ways to ask people how their “fill in the blank” was.  How was your break?  How was your holiday?  Did you have a nice few days off?  That’s what I asked people and of course people do the same back.  It’s so hard to just have a conversation.  Why can’t we just say it?  I find myself trying to gauge the other person’s religious views or however you want to call it.  At the same time, you don’t want to just straight up ask, because I think people will be on the defense, not wanting you to preach to them or do whatever, depending on what they do or do not celebrate.  Sigh.  What a difficult thing to do.  I’m tired of tiptoeing.

I watched my friend play song after song on the piano in sheer amazement.  She is crazy to be able to make music like that even on the guitar.  It makes me want to pick up the guitar again.  I know I get frustrated easily and it seems like whatever point I actually got to on the guitar, I’m back at square one.  But when I see people playing guitar especially worship guitar, it is sooooo coool.  I just want to be able to play!  I think we are going to have a jam sesh in the new year so that’ll be fun, but I should try to pick up the guitar again before then.  Oh yeah, I also think that the main part of being able to play the guitar is being able to sing with it because often times just because you are playing the song, no one will know what song that is until you start singing or humming.  It’s so different playing chords cause there seems to be no melody.  At least that’s what I’ve gathered.  Also, I’m not good at singing so its tough for me to do so.  Well I guess I should just work on the guitar first and sing in my head first.

Merry Christmas for reals (well the day after).  It was the birth of Jesus, who came down to earth, to be like one of us, so that He could give us the free gift of grace and everlasting life.  I’ll admit that it’s hard to constantly reflect on or about Christmas day as the birth of Jesus Christ.  With so many things going on the day of, it really takes my mind off the real meaning of Christmas.  Then again, how do you celebrate Christmas for what it really is?  I think it takes some time of reflecting and prayer.  It’s also tough when not everyone that you spend Christmas with believes in the real meaning of it.

Also, my parents were watching a hong kong tv channel where they were asking people on the street why people celebrated Christmas.  People had no idea!  “to get presents”  “because we can”.  Interesting.

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The Lakers were playing on Christmas day and every so often between breaks, there would be clips from NBA Cares.  This is where you see celebrities working with children or doing things around the community.  I wonder how this works.  I wonder if they have an option of this NBA Cares thing and people who want to participate can or if it is more like a requirement to put on a good face.  How many of the NBA players really care?  I’m not saying that they don’t care, I’m just interested in knowing how many really do it because they want to.

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Went shopping today.  It was supposedly to be the second (if not biggest) shopping day of the year compared to black friday.  Retailers are struggling hard to break even this year and they are desperate for sales.  Stores had all kinds of crazy markdowns and people were everywhere!  This is good for the people who have money to spend, bad for the stores because marking down things makes them lose a lot of money.  Anyway, I brought this up for a reason, but now I can’t remember.  Haha.

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For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.  And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6

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Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4

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Merry Christmas! =D

I was at the mall last night and stopped by Aeropostale to see if they had anything good considering the sign at the door said that everything was 50-70% off.  I was looking at the belts since they were marked at $5.99 and they are usually $16.50.  I know I have tons of belts, but I kind of wanted a new khaki one.  So I got one and went to pay and when it rang up it was for $0.99!!!  I kept looking at the screen to see if I just missed the number in front.  Then as the girl gave me my receipt she was like, that was only $1?!?!?!?!  She was more amazed than I was.  Anyway, it was a great deal!!!  $1.07 for a new belt.  Sweetness.

I was having trouble unlocking my car with my remote last week so I decided to just stop using it for fear of setting off my own alarm and looking like a thief again.  Since I’ve done that, there is an actual possibility that I could lock my keys in the car.  I wanted to prevent this from ever happening so I decided that I would always lock my car with my key.  Funny thing is, you can’t do that!!  I cannot lock my car with my key.  Odd, I know.  Maybe I’m just an idiot.  You can only unlock the car with the key.  Last  night, I also found out that you can only unlock the car from the driver side door!  I left something in my car last night so I went back out to get it and figured I could reach it better from the passenger side.  It doesn’t work!  It doesn’t unlock!  Weird.  So weird.  I must try it all once again when I have some time.  It can’t really be designed like that, can it?

Walk to some mexican place for lunch, order my food, the lady tells me the price, open my purse to pull out my wallet.  My wallet is not there!  Crap!  Think quickly back to where my wallet is…in my cleat bag from Ultimate.  Tell the lady sorry and to hold on.  Try to see if there is any money in my jeans.  $2.  Uh..  Ask her to cancel the order.  Scan the menu to see what I can buy for $2.  Large Green Sauce or Large Red Sauce.  Uh.  Leave the store quickly.  Man!  That’s newby.  :(  Call up my coworker, he lets me borrow some money.  Order food from the same lady.  How embarassing!  I usually don’t forget things like that.  When I leave the house I check for 3 things: keys, wallet, phone.  Yeah, obviously failed on the wallet part.  Haha.