christmas list

i am a procrastinator. that’s just the way that i am. i’ve never been able to plan out far in advance and usually i end up choosing to cram things in a small amount of time instead of doing a little bit every day. as such, it appears that there are 7 days left until christmas comes around. now, i must confess that i don’t even have a list of people that i want to buy gifts for.

so here i am struggling a week before christmas trying to figure out who i want to buy gifts for. never-you-mind that i don’t have the slightest clue as to what i will get these people…i haven’t gotten there yet. i still need to figure out who i will get stuff for….then the REAL turmoil begins. what will i get them?

ugh.

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room raiders

i was watching tv last night in another bout of insomnia and stumbled across [url=http://www.mtv.com/onair/room_raiders/]room raiders[/url]. the concept of the show is that three contestants vye for a date with the “room raider”. the first raider was a guy who got to go through three other girl’s rooms and look through all of their stuff…the guy seemed particularly interested in going through the girl’s underwear drawer.

the basic premise of the show is that based on the inspection of the room, the raider would then pick a girl based on the room to go out and have a date with.

the second raider was a girl who went through three guy’s rooms…it’s pretty funny because she was ripping these guys apart. i don’t think that i would participate in a show like this though, i don’t want my privacy violated like that.

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financials

it’s the end of the year again and i am checking out the financials of my 401k. i probably don’t pay enough attention to its performance as i should, but it seems that i did reasonably well for the funds that i elected to invest in. i think the [url=http://old.journal.ocliw.com/2003/0530.php]last time i checked[/url] on my 401k, it was back in may! damn! well, it turns out that since the may check-in, things have been doing better, and i’m getting about a 10% return on investment. better than money in the bank, i guess.

i’m kind of upset because i went through great pains when i first set up the 401k stuff so that i’d contribute a very specific amount and it turns out that the math i did was wrong. i even had someone double check the math for me, but still…no dice. so i’m actually contributing more than i wanted to into the 401k this year. bummer. that could have been money that i could have played with…now locked away forever. grrrrr.

woah…michelle!

i have a newfound awe for [url=http://www.maximonline.com/girls_of_maxim/html/girl_1026.html]michelle branch[/url]. who knew she was so hot? i mean, i liked her music and all, but who knew she was hot? maybe it was because when her last album was out, she was still 18 or something that made it feel dirty. but now that she’s a whopping 20, it’s all ok to be attracted to her…right?

i’ve only seen her in pretty conservative attire and i always thought of her as a cute little girl, but she looks all grown up now in the latest issue of maxim.

damn…she’s still only 20. that’s young for maxim, isn’t it?