Hello, all my loyal listeners. I apologize for being absent, I'm a lazy bastard and realize that nobody really reads this anyways...except for Rucker. Thanks for the support, Alan. Now where was I...it's been almost a month and quite a bit has happened.
Christmas was awesome. I drove home and retired the 'Clipse, considering I just take the El to work every day and to say parking is a bitch would be an understatement. Our family usually does a good job of getting together for Christmas, even though we're slowly starting to spread out from Toledo. It was great to see Sara, my Marine cousin, who finished her stint with Toys for Tots in Philly. Couldn't be more proud of the accomplishment she had there, setting records for the amount of toys. My G'Mas birthday is Christmas Eve, so our tradition has been to go to dinner with everyone in the family. This is always a good time when you try and get 15-25 people together at one restaurant on Christmas Eve. I always pity the server who has 7 different checks and we always change seats multiple times. Then I remember that people used to do the same to me so many times that I deserve to be an ass every once and a while. Unfortunately, Shannon's visit was shortlived and did not include the usual Christmas festivities. Instead, we got to celebrate the recent engagement of long-time BFF Andy Frazier and the soon-to-be Courtney Frazier. Seen here...
The engagement party was a phenomonal event, which included all of our Parentals and seemed like something we should've done years before. I don't believe we had ever gotten Andy, Steve and I's parents together in the same place, even though each set of parents had such a huge impact on each of us growing up. It was an awesome time and included many beverages and lots of laughs. Who would argue with guys that are this good looking?
It's always great to know that I have such a supportive group of guys that I couldn't be more proud of everything they've accomplished. Christmas was great, as usual. My brother, Austin, landed an Xbox360 which my father somehow got a hold of one at Circuit City. Which is great, considering he soldiered in front of Best Buy for a few hours attempting to purchase one in the frenzy of the marketing buzz saw that is Microsoft. Needless to say, Austin was pleased. After Christmas I headed back to Chicago for a few days of work in the semi-warm climate that is rather confusing. I swear I was wearing short sleeves a few days after Christmas on the way to work. Crazy shit. Good news about that week was I had been considered for a new position as SPSS. This was right along the ideas of my master plan and I seemed to have a good chance of landing the new job.
The following weekend, Shannon and I traveled to Indianapolis (actually Fishers) to visit Kris, Le and Tri to celebrate the New Year. And, holy crap it was a good time. Shannon and Le looked their best, as usual...Tri ended up tazing me and Kris at about 4am, which was painful but hysterical. Kris and I got in a french onion dip fight, don't ask. Overall, I drank enough to kill most normal men and managed to not puke. Good times were had by all, and it was especially nice to spend some time with Rally the night before NYE and also on NYE when he decided to wear the same shirt as someone else at the party...and no, I do not have any pictures of him and Scott which sucks. But imagine showing up at a party where you know 3 people and you're wearing the same shirt as a total stranger. Little weird, but well worth it. Here come more pictures...
I'll finish this update up with talks of my promotion, soccer, Skaggs, ND-OSU fiesta bowl thoughts and much much less entertaining stuff. Stay tuned...
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