First off...

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEARS

...now give me some money!!


Secondly...

I updated my photo album with two new albums for 2K4. Despite how busy I am (and believe me I am, but you can pretty much tell that from my lack of updates), I still, and as a priority, do my darnest to have fun! So, last weekend, not only did I work on Saturday, I still manage to go bowling and go snowshoeing up in the mountains. Here, check out the photos:

Bowling Madness: bowling with a bunch of the many medical professionals I know, which includes an occupational therapist, a couple of nurses, an oral hygenist and a whole mess of pharmacists. It was a fun nite in which, near the beginning, I bowled one of my best games EVER. My score was like double and triple everyone elses, hitting strikes and spares all over the place with my unique delivery (I practically threw the bowling ball half way down the lane). But in the end, I still lost that game by a couple of points (this one guy had like 5 strikes in a row at the end) and then bowled one of my worst games afterwards.

Nature 2: The Revenge!: this will be my second album filled with beautiful scenery of the Northwest, this time in snow, starting off with my snowshoeing trip to Steven's last Sunday. First off, snowshoeing is HARD...you'll get really tired very quickly climbin up normal hilly trails, but in the snow. But we had fun trying to keep up with one another and the occasional snowball fight. When we got to the top of our trail, we saw a whole bunch of people of there already, resting and building a couple of igloos. It was really cool. We, ourselves, ended up building a snowman, took some pics and then headed back down. And btw, going down was the best part of snowshoeing, not cuz that was the main reason why you strap on snowshoe (going down without them would be pretty dangerous), but it was more fun to just "slide" down. Oh, the childhood memories it brought back.


And Finally...

There's one thing I forgot to include in my year in review post. About in December, I saw something on television that REALLY summed up the whole year for me and actually made me come to the conclusion that this last year was the Year of Drama. It was an episode of South Park, one of the new ones, where Stan breaks up with Wendy and Butter's too gets his heart broken. Anyway, Stan joins a Goth group when he runs into Butters who just broke up with his "love". Its what Butter sez at the end that REALLY hits me and put everything in perspective. It was probably the deepest thing I've heard in a long time...check out the conversation they had in the episode:

Stan (with Goth Kids): What's the matter with you?
Butters (crying in the rain): Well....my girlfriend broke up with me.
Goth Girl: Did she step on your heart with stelletto shoes?
Butters: Yeah...it sure does hurt.
Goth Boy I: Dats cool. I guess you can join with us if you like.
Goth Boy II: Yeah. We are going to go to the graveyard and write poems about how pointless life is...
Butters: Well, no thanks. I love life.
Stan: Huh?! But you just got dump.
Butters: Well..oh yeah, and I am sad. But at the same time I am really happy that something can make me feel that sad. Its like it makes me feel alive, y'know. Makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now if that I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I am feeling is like a beautiful sadness...well, I guess that sounds stupid.
Goth Boy: Yeah...
Stan: No, no...Butters, that doesn't sound stupid at all.
Butters: Well, thanks for offering to let me be in your click...but to be honest, I rather be a crying little pussy than a faggoty goth kid. Well see ya Stan...