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Sunday, December 15, 2002

I am KC Munchkin.

Free-spirited and fun to be around, I brighten the world around me. I try to have as much fun as possible but am willing to manage my responsibilities as well. It could even be said that I have fun while I'm working, and that's because I have a positive, "can do" attitude and don't let life's little gremlins get me down. What Video Game Character Are You?

Anyway. Carrie and I decorated the apartment for this time of the year we all know as the holiday season. Check out my Article on that.

Friday the 13th (yes) we had our 3rd Annual Jewelry Show here at the apartment, so we had to move most of those decorations we had just put up in order to make room for all the pretty jewelry that Carrie and three of her friends made. Not as many people came this year as last year, but they all spent a butt-load of money. Carrie made about twice what she did last year.

Saturday the 14th was very busy. I went to a movie with my mom (I'll get the Review up soon) around noon, then Carrie and I and a couple of other Bead Factory people went to see Tacoma City Ballet's The Nutcracker. That word looks really weird when I type it. Nutcracker. Nutcracker. I don't know why. Anyway, Melissa had a big solo this year in the "Spanish" section and was very, very good.

After the Ballet we all went over to The Primo Grill with everybody who works for The Bead Factory for the annual Bead Factory Christmas Party. Carrie and I both had beef tenderloin with blue cheese and a roasted red pepper sauce. Yummy times, yummy times. Then it was back to Mark and Viki's for a "white elephant" style gift giving time. I never knew what "white elephant" meant until a couple years ago. It's where you can be a complete bastard and steal gifts from other people. Carrie and I ended up with a gorgeous Asian calligraphy set that we'll probably never use, but it makes a cool display, and a new centerpiece for our coffee table that's all candly and rocky and neat-o. Oh, and Mark and Viki also gave everone an Ice Cream Maker. So soon Carrie and I will be able to indulge in ice cream whenever we get un-lazy enough to plug the machine in and pour ingredients down the spout.

Unfortunately there was some sadness amongts all this happiness:

RIP RAICHU: 1999-2002



Yes, unfortunately after being repaired so many times, the broken piece inside of Raichu finally gave out. So I think it's time to call it quits on this computer and just try to get a new one (whenever I can work up enough money). I got everything off of it that I need (although remind me to retrieve the memory upgrade out of its guts; I'll probably be able to use that on another laptop).


posted by Christopher at 9:20 AM

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Sunday, December 01, 2002

Okay, here's that car story I promised you last time: A long while ago the windshild wipers on my car broke. They would only work at the highest speed, and then only for like 15 minutes at a time or so, at which point they would suddenly turn into super-slow-motion windshield wipers. Not exactly safe. This was okay, though, because Washington has been having like the dryest fall EVER. There's been like a 16th of an inch of rain in the past three months. But it's finally getting into the rainy season, so I needed working windshield wipers.

I took my to the place where I got the last broken thing fixed. They put in a new wiper motor and discovered that that wasn't the ONLY problem with the wipers. It aslo had a broken thing-that-makes-the-wipers-reset, and if they put in the new wiper motor it would make it impossible for me to turn the wipers off once they were turned on (until I turned the car off). But of course they didn't have the thing-that-makes-the-wipers-reset in stock. So I had to go back next week and then finally they put everything in. So it cost almost $300 just to fix my windshield wipers. HOWEVER, right before I took the car in the second time, I had parked outside of my home and went to open the door so I could get out of the car (you know), and there was a strange noise. Now I can't open my car door from the inside. I have to unroll the window, reach out, and open it from the outside!

Carrie has started her holiday show spree. Practically like every weekend from now until the middle of December she and her friend Lisa are going to like a craft fair or show or something like that and selling their jewelry. She's already made I think about $700 just in the first weekend, so that ain't bad.

My Bro and I went up to Microsoft again, but they were doing something different and really the people we were working for were totally unprepared and didn't know what was going on (even more so than usual). We were supposed to work like four or five days, but they only actually had enough work ready for us to do two days (and a half). Kinda ridiculous. We're going back up "Sometime after Thanksgiving" and hopefully they'll have thier act together better by then.

It was Carrie's 25th birthday over the weekend, so on Saturday we went to a fantastic restaurant called "Il Fiasco" with her folks and her grandma, who's visiting from Ohio for like a month. Then on Sunday we went out with the entire Bead Factory crew to "Sakura's", one of those Japanese places where they cook the food in front of you while tossing knives around so it's more like a stunt show than a restaurant almost. But hoo-boy fun.

Thursday was of course Thanksgiving. The way we worked it this year is Carrie came over to my folks' place for like an hour in the afternoon, then we went to our respective families' places for dinner, and then I went over to her folks' place for like an hour in the evening. Worked out pretty well, but not as well as last year when we actually had two dinners, one at her family's and one at mine.

I kinda slacked on Articles this month, for which I'm sorry, but now I am actually caught on on my movie reviews! Hoo-aah!

Oh! And also be sure to check out Fools Play Island. I've switched it over to a winter wonderland. It's a lot of fun.

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