Thanksgiving and the Holidays (I’m assuming part 1)

Ryan    Uncategorized     Christmas, Family, Thanksgiving

As December suddenly made its way into my hectic lifestyle, a few important and very exciting things have started occurring to me… and I guess it centers mostly on family.

Being away from my family this past Thanksgiving was a little difficult, but Andrea and I made the most of it through spending some quality time at Disneyland. Honestly, it was a really fun trip, and I’m still going through withdrawls. (the car ride home was horrible) But that being said, I can hardly wait for Christmas to come. Not only will I get to go home, but I’m totally excited to see my family, friends, and eat good food. Just thinking about it now makes me ansy.

And although I know this has no relevance to anything in search or social, I’ve really felt the strong desire to tell you now just how I feel. Actually, I was visiting a blog of my friends who is in Japan teaching. Recently, Julia has been updating her blog on holiday plans, food posts, and pictures of her daughter, who is just too cute. It is the highly personal things (from family and friends) that really make me come back to a blog to read more and continue to stay updated. I may think I’m more into reading up on my professional area of expertise, but I think when it comes down to it, friends, family, and thoughts of comfort (home) is what makes me the most happiest.

And so I guess this brings me back to my blog. No personal pictures, no stories of my family, and not even a steady post rate. As a blogger, I’d have to say I deserve the grade of a strong C-. There is a lot to improve upon, but more importantly, I’m thinking I don’t really want to lecture in my posts anymore, but communicate more along the lines of talking and discussing. I know I’m a month early, but I think a good new years resolution for me is to push out 5 times as many posts as I did this year. (I don’t think that will be too hard) I’ll try more.

Peace

White Elephant, And December Shopping

Ryan    Uncategorized     Christmas, Shopping, White Elephant

Just finished up with marketing’s white elephant gift exchange. Not too shabby I might add. I remember one year, I got some Sudafed for my gift. Although I have to say that it came in handy a year later when I got a pretty server cold. Oh well. This year, I came out with some English breakfast tea, some cookies, and some swizzle sticks. Yeah not the coolest of things, but not as bad as a $10 stationary set. Now to finish off the day.

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate shopping in December. Well generally speaking, shopping  is pretty boring, traffic is usually horrible, and you end up spending way more than you think you were going to spend. Add December into the picture. Oh gawd. But I do have to get some stocking stuffers and some periphials for my video presents for my family. Hopefully they’ll all be there and I won’t need to go do some hunting. I’ve got a plan set out, that should help in optimizing time and traffic. We’ll see.

Other than that, this week is finally come to a close, and with 5 days until Andrea and I head back to Washington, we’ve got lots on our plates to finish. Also, the snow. Please let there be no hassles or derailments with our flights.  Last thing I want is to miss Christmas with the families.

Peace.

1 Week and 2 Days!

Ryan    Uncategorized     Apple, Christmas, MacBook, Video Editing

Can you believe I go home in less than 2 weeks? I can’t! I’m incredibly excited for this year’s holiday season. I’m not quite sure why, but may have something to do with being in Phoenix for the past 4 months or so. I’m ready for home cooked food, family, and friends.

Any ways, that’s pretty much the main thing thats on my mind right now. Oh and how I’ve spent some 15 hours or so making my Christmas presents for everyone and having the hard drive thats saving it all totally crash on me. That’s keeping me up at night as well. No problems. I’m going to an Apple store this afternoon to try and pull all the info off of it, or fix it.. whatever it takes. I’ll tell you this for sure though, if the Apple ‘Geniuses’ can’t do diddly squat for my problem, I’m spending the next week coving some lost ground. Late nights, and early mornings… more work, and more stress, just what I need. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.