'tis the season for holiday parties. jed had one at his place on saturday night--lotsa fun. he and 3 guys got together to sing some a cappella xmas music. Check out pictures from this event.
after the party, i went to a rave with betina and ben...which was kinda disturbing. The overall ambience was cool and the music was great. But I was so shocked to see all the young children, high on ecstasy, numbing their minds with twirling neon lights..so disheartening. see for yourself
spoke to matthew on sunday to see how he was doing down in fernley. he apparently won nearly $1000 at craps and then took that money, rented a car, drove to Tahoe, checked himself into a nice hotel and went skiing at Heavenly over the weekend. Unfortunately, he injured himself and tore some ligaments in his shoulder and had to wear a sling for the next two days. Amazon apparently offered to fly him home early---but he turned it down! And volunteered to work a few more days at the warehouse! Funny, considering he almost swore off ever working there ever again after last year's incident in which a microscopic piece of metal lodged itself into his eye.

over the weekend, i did some heavy duty xmas shopping. i was buying gifts for some children that "are in need" through this program at the seattle center. anyhow, the girl wanted an Asian doll---it's much harder to find an Asian doll than you'd think. My only choices were either Kira, friend of Barbie, or Lucy Liu from Charlie's Angels. I thought, Lucy Liu would be so much cooler than surfer girl Kira. But out of all 3 characters in Charlie's Angels, guess which doll is the *the* most popular and completely sold out doll across the nation? Yup, Lucy. So I ended up with Kira.

on monday, i got a sudden call from my smithie friend, liz, who invited me over to the holiday party she was throwing along with roommates. it was so refreshing to hang out and meet a totally new group of people. i feel bad that i haven't really hung out with liz at all since she's moved to seattle...and she just lives, like, up the street from me.

last night, i went to ben's company holiday party at EMP, which was actually a lot of fun. everyone was super dressed up....ben was in a suit! i haven't seen him dressed up like that since i first met him in hong kong 1.5 years ago. they had the Artist's Journey open so I rode that again. but overall, it was quite the bash. Check out all the pictures for this one.

I need to go Xmas shopping like crazy tonight. And then I plan on skiing like crazy this weekend. wahoo!