The Weekend Update (And Then Some)

I haven't updated since Thursday so this is an extended version of my weekend update. Here goes:

Thursday
After work we all went to Naraya to exchange gifts from our Secret Santa thing & to celebrate B's birthday. It was super fun and really one of the best gatherings we've had. (Perhaps I'll add pictures later). I learned my Secret Santa was Spam and she bought me a hilarious, yet practical, gift from my wishlist.
Now, this image really doesn't do Spam's gift justice because she got me the bright red pair, but you get the idea.

Friday
I joined Allen and his co-workers at Disneyland for their holiday party. It was a fun-filled day, but also very tiring. Poor Allen got so sick on Space Mountain. We left at 4pm to try and make it back for my holiday party. Needless to say, my holiday party wasn't quite a luxurious as Allen's. At Allen's party, the raffle prizes ranged from $500 travel certificates to 23 inch flat sreen TVs. At my holiday party, our raffle prizes ranged from a $5 gift card to Starbucks to a hand-delivered cup of office-coffee. Oh well, it's the company that counts and I still had fun hanging with my work buddies.

Saturday
A somewhat stressful day spent first at Old Navy, then at four different cell phone stores attempting to renew our contract. I eventually got us a great deal at this Asian place and we're picking up our new LG CU500's next Saturday. I hope I like this phone b/c I signed a two-year contract with Cingular. The phone is one of the new 3G phones (3G is supposedly some new technological breakthrough for cellies), is also an mp3 player and has a 1.3 mega pixel camera. We'll see if it's all that.

Sunday

Another fun-filled day, this time spent mostly at Ikea. We bought a new bathroom shelving unit and a new six-piece bathroom organization set. I love this stuff! So the rest of the day was spent re-organizing our bathroom. I must say, it looks quite nice now.

As a short side-story, on our way to Ikea, I spotted a large man wearing plaid shorts and Ugg boots. I can safely say that we all hate Ugg boots and I know now from first hand experience, that they manage to be even more disturbing on a man. They should be banned in the name of public safety. I tried to snap a picture of him with my phone, but couldn't get a clear shot w/o being totally obvious (we were driving, he was walking), but just to give you a general idea please see the image below. Keep in mind, the guy in the photo is old (he gets some slack for being old), he's not wearing plaid shorts and he doesn't weigh 300 lbs.