Thanks to the very generous Christopher, during the annual very un-surprising Kris Kringle with the gang. This below right here, is what I got:

So yes, after a year of waiting, and not wanting to spend $59.99 at Fry's when the DVD rolled out in September, I finally got re-hooked on the show I once was addicted to. So, yay.
Holiday season drives everyone nuts, including yours truly. Next to the mandatory family visits, church attendances, and optional new year resolutions (which always sound ABSOLUTELY mandatory when you repeat it to yourself). However, I'm seeing this holiday season quite differently. I'm being pushed into a promotion I desperately do not want, picking up extra duties at church to fill in parts for things missing from my peers due to illness while trying to balance it with my side projects which are quickly climbing my list of priorities.
But it's good, it's very good. I got something to look forward to, a self-set deadline on projects I care about, and definitely a motivation bigger than ever to keep the deadline alive, keep the projects going, just to hope for a chance NOT to work for somebody else again. I'm doing much better than last year, the year before, and most definitely the year before that. And I'm glad to look back on 2007 and say "Hey, I did much better than a year or two ago!"
That's all that counts, to my brother, my dad, my dear friends, and most importantly..myself. I hold myself accountable to people around me and myself, and that's what counts.
To quote Ben, Jess, and the poor traffic lady at the mall on Black Friday:
"Happy Holidays...!"
"F*** YOU!!!"
