oh, what a holiday weekend. i do love the long breaks where we don’t have to travel or do too much and just get to hang around lazily a bulk of the time. it’s a glorious feeling.

not that we didn’t get out plenty. for the half day on wednesday stacy and i were sitting on the patio at el toro with a taco and a beer by 2 o’clock, then playing beer pong at a bar on melrose called el guapo in the evening with jessica. thursday we had the yummy thanksgiving dinner at jessica’s house, then closed out with drinks and christmas carols on the stereo over at gino’s. then saturday i managed to squeeze in a football game & pizza with the guys before heading out for korean bbq and karaoke (again, already) later that night, during which jessica had so many drinks she started stumbling around and babbling a little bit, which was adorable.

yeah, friday and sunday we did almost nothing, except start the christmas shopping — all online though. you couldn’t pay me to fight those crazy people that go to all the stores at 4am just to save 50 bucks on a laptop or whatever other crazy deal they think they might get.

other than that, i spent an unfortunate amount of time trying to finish some really punishing sequences in the skateboarding videogame that owns my soul, skate. i literally tried for nearly three hours to do a certain 30-second run of tricks that just NEVER…CAME…TOGETHER. oh, it was brutal. i still haven’t done it. but i did skip past it to some other things and after a long break for dinner and dexter with the ‘family’ (jess, gino, and sarah), i went back in for a different one and at least this time after trying for two hours i finally succeeded. whew.

anyway, back to work — but for only three weeks until the next break. excellent.