January 1st, 2005

Well, it’s a new year, I’m back in Orlando, and I figure it’s time for an update. Also, I was scan­ning some old photos and I found this hideous shot, and thought I’d share with you all.

I headed back to Atlanta the week before xmas, and it was nice being back at my parent’s house. I had little or no plans while in town, so I got a lot of time to basi­cally sit around and be a lazy bum, free of any respon­si­bil­i­ties or dead­lines. Obvi­ously, with the hol­i­days rapidly approach­ing, I had to brave the malls of sub­ur­ban Atlanta, which were noth­ing short of insane. How­ever, I did find what I needed, and got out unharmed.

Christ­mas came and went, and it seems to fly up and be over with quicker and quicker every single year. In any event, I think I got nice gifts for all of my family mem­bers, and I got a lot of great stuff from my family. My main scores were a nice new chair for my desk, an all-in-one scanner/fax/copier/printer, a Wacom tablet, a bunch of DVDs, and some Dali prints. All in all, I got much, much more than I asked for.

The rest of the week was spent hang­ing out with a few friends that were in town, and basi­cally doing lots of maxing and relax­ing. By the end of the week, I was ready to get back to Orlando and school, how­ever. I headed back on New Year’s Eve, and made great time get­ting home. I guess that brings us up to now. It took me a few hours to unpack all the loot Santa brought me and get it all set up, and hon­estly, my apart­ment is still dis­or­ga­nized from the influx of new good­ies. But, I guess that’s not a bad prob­lem to have.

You know, I’m not really one for New Year’s Res­o­lu­tions, but I think I came up with a fairly easy one: I’m going to try to be a bit more per­son­able towards my friends and family. I have a ten­dency to kind of hang out on my own, and not really talk to anyone unless they give me a call. I need to work on not alien­at­ing those that I care about. As I said, this is a rather simple res­o­lu­tion: just call people more, things like that. We’ll see how that turns out.

Any­ways, it’s nice to be back in the sun­shine and 80 degree tem­per­a­tures of cen­tral Florida. Hope every­one else had a good new year.

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5 Responses to “Ano Nuevo”

1. Ali says:
   January 1st, 2005 at 3:29 pm

   you’ll have great appre­ci­a­tion for your rolly-​chair now.

   :-D
2. liz says:
   January 3rd, 2005 at 6:07 pm

   I thought that photo looked familiar… good times, Oh, and Ray­mond James Sta­dium is the best place on earth, pirate ship and all!
3. erik says:
   January 4th, 2005 at 1:51 pm

   Wow, we were all…ummm….thinner then?
4. Daniel says:
   January 4th, 2005 at 11:11 pm

   Yea, thin­ner for sure.

   Hey Liz, glad you enjoyed RayJay. I hope you got to go up on the ship and take a pic­ture or some­thing! If I get tick­ets to Bucs games next year, you’ll have to come to one with me.
5. liz says:
   January 5th, 2005 at 6:04 pm

   yesssssssssssssss!!!