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boo-hoo. i'm sick, BUT--i got to work from home today, which was rather pleasant...i love my job!

i also just installed Photoshop Elements on my NEW home computer, HP Pavilion, 1G RAM, 2.2 GHz AMD processor, baby!! thank you mommy and daddy!! it's a huge step up from my old Dimension 2100 with a Celeron processor and no extensibility. Okay, and before I sotp myself from sounding like a geek, I have to brag about Photoshop Elements too: finally a program that actually has all the features I want! And makes it so easy to share photos...I finally posted 2 sets of pics that I've been meaning to send for ages. I love it love it love it. Whoever works at that company must be an absolute GENIUS...nod, nod, wink, wink.

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new year's was pretty fun, went down to West Hollywood in LA with my girlfriend and some other friends. also got to have dinner with one of my long-lost a cappella friends who now lives across the country in NY...*sniff*. Korean BBQ, karaoke, club...who knew I was so happenin'? Or so Asian, for that matter....hehe.

It was the first time I didn't do the 'sit around the TV with family and/or friends and toast at midnight' thing, possibly because it was the first time i didn't do new year's in MD. ;) no offense, my lovely MD friends, but honestly, do you disagree?? But seriously though, the change was a bit bizarre. I always felt like there was ceremony around new year's, and it was a time of contemplation, celebration, appreciation, etc. etc. But this year, call me crazy but it's hard to feel ceremonious when you're surrounded by loud music, party lights, random people with LA-ish clothes on, with a caramel apple martini in your hand that just got half-spilled all over your jeans. not that it wasn't fun, but...was it new year's? i guess since i'm one year older, it must have been. (ah...wise cindy moment.)

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