hey, how are ya?
i was just checking the stats of visitors to this little blogspot thingy since i just added a counter last week, and apparently some one on the westat.com server was looking at my page. i found out that westat is an employee-owned research company in maryland. thinking they're researching me? or some one on one of their comps found me? hmmmm maybe they're reading this!
Awwwwww look, here. It's the company of the guy who owns derby square, where meliss and danielle and i used to work. he makes all those yankee candle toppers you might see around. he originated the idea. we got to give opinions and ideas for some of the first toppers, aawwwwwwwwwwwwww. i guess he's doing really well with ouramerica. on the page, you can even try on different toppers with different yankees, wee hoo!
hehe
today was good. i got my hair cut (yes, by a professional, and it came out great!), and i did a few other productive things, and looked for a scarf, except i didn't go to old navy, the easiest and most obvious place to check. at the hairdresser's she asked if i knew some one named "eliz" who went to lunenburg. i did indeed know who she was, but i don't know her, you know? but, i was at the mall later, and who did i see but eliz herself. weird. i also saw this girl and i can't for the life of me think of what her name is. i think it's jess, but i also think that's wrong. i think she may have gone out with chris mcfadden in high school, but then again, i'm not sure if she even went to lhs, or if i just know her from working at whalom (i think she worked rides). she had sort of kinky hair, wore tons of eye make up, and like, only jnco jeans. if you know who she is, please tell me. i also think i saw tom wolejko (sp?) looking more punk rock at staples. i know it was him b/c he was with his brother and i kind of saw him although i didn't look right at him because i was afraid i'd be all "hey tom!" and he'd be like "uhmmm" all though that is probably not true since the summer after graduation meliss and i used to go to honey farms late at night purely because he was working. he was always listening to screeching weasel. he's a good kid. after he stopped going to lhs, we for some reason talked online sometimes and ended up sending me this zine with a hot dog on the cover. i don't know. i forgot to tell meliss i saw him today.
so the topper try-on finished loading. it even makes comments like "great choice!" when you put a topper on a candle, haha. weird.
meliss, danielle, please look at this. you can even see paul and rhys and leticia on the "about us" page.
after dinner, i went with danielle and katey and her sis julia to see Kate and Leopold which I liked very much. Hugh Jackman was great! then it was mocha alley then we decided to buy scratch tickets, then d came over, and meliss shortly thereafter and we just chatted. a full night. i'm sleepy and getting up by 9 or 930 tomorrow - i'm working hard to quit being nocturnal - but i didn't want to make the girls leave, it was fun.
the only other part of the day of note was i made a throw pillow out of an old shirt. it's this weird black and white print of photos of famous old european buidings. it's not done because i need some polyfill. and i have another to make tomorrow from a striped terry cloth shirt. i have weird clothes.
xoxo

work was pretty good last night and wednesday night. i've been making pretty okay money.
yesterday i met lisa and jeff at lui lui. it was fun times, and i had draught root beer, which is amazing. i highly recommend it. then we went and walked around the mall, then i had to leave for work (booo!). it was nice to see them. i think i will see jeff on new year's, but i won't see lisa again till april!!!!!
i've gotten emails from all the girls except mariss, who apparently doesn't have internet access at home, so we can't really blame her.
today i have a lot of stuff to do, right now i am multitasking. i'm going to get my hair cut later, hopefully. so weird. it will only be the second time in like 4 years that some one besides me has cut my hair. oooh the excitement.
i'm off to eat some breakfast now, i've been up for two hours and my stomach is growling.
have a good one*

you can tell everybody that this is your song
meredith and danielle and i baked SO much on sunday, it was great, and the cookies were delish. i even made frosting from scratch with no recipe and it tasted good, can you believe it?
monday, danielle and i went to the yankee candle outlet, which was funnnn. i restrained myself and only bought "clean cotton." (suite 411 girls - you must buy this)
okay, before i forget, i was reading dayna's diary thingy tonight, and she included the recipe for cable guys. it is, unfortunately, incorrect. so, here is the correct recipe for a tasty Cable Guy, trademark drink of PiKappaPhi/Suite411 (no we didn't make up the name):
fill a glass with ice
add 2 oz. of whiskey (2 standard shots)
the juice of half a lemon
1 teaspoon powdered sugar
*stir
fill the rest of the glass with ginerale

*delicieux*

christmas was really nice. after yankee yesterday we had grilled cheese and soup and i "watched White Christmas" (a.k.a. i napped). went to the grocery store with mom and dad, had dinner, hung out, went to church, came home. matt martin and bonnie were both listed in the list they read during the prayers part. i forget what you call it, but i wonder how they're doing. i hope the bonnie rumors aren't true. if you know anything, let me know.
when cyndy got home, i made everyone open their presents from me, as i do every year. we also opened a really have box my grandma sent that was labeled "to the Smetanas from S. Claus." it was a statue of joseph, mary, and jesus. it's not like any one i've ever seen. and it's really, really heavy. everyone liked their gifts, i think, and things seem to fit.
last night we discussed what time we would be getting up today. the past several years, i've told my sister things like "don't wake me up before 9," and then i've gotten up real early and woken everyone up. last year i woke up at like 630 and opened the stocking outside my door and napped and colored a whole page in the powerpuffgirl coloring book that was in the stocking (with glitter glue!), THEN woke everyone up at 730 or 8.
last night, i went to bed at 12 and read the yayasisterhood for awhile, woke up at 330, and 630 or something and stayed in bed and asleep. in the middle of a CRAZY dream, my sister jumped on me, announcing it was christmas. it was 759. i deserved to be woken up.
it was a nice, super lazy day. my only sadness comes from the lack of snow. oh well.
i got lots of great presents. i got a zoom camera, which i wanted, and watch and cloooothes and money. oh, and a pocket umbrella. it was all perfect!
i guess my great grandmother isn't doing too well at the moment. she's staying at a different place from my great grandfather, so she can get more care, and she's waiting for them to do a bone scan because she has all these back problems. she's been very disoriented i guess, and just doesn't want to walk. she's 95, so i think none of that is too shocking. the kind of amusing part is she keeps saying my great grandpap has all these "other women." we talked to him today, he seems to be doing really well. he asked when i was leaving for london, and commented that at least i should be okay with the language.
there was lots of phone talk today, and lots of sitting around. mmmmmmmmmm
tomorrow cyndy and i are going to nashua early and i have to work at 4 :P
my eyes hurt. bed time.
xoxoxoxox