a jolly happy Christmas!

Lisa and I just got back from a walk around the neighborhood on this fine Christmas evening.  We also went around the cliffs and down the pier.  It was pretty busy out considering how chilly it was.  I want to say like 55 and cloudy.

When we woke up this morning we made some Egg Nog French Toast and Bacon.  The bacon was awesome, the french toast could have been better.  We opened our presents which were awesome!  Then we cleaned up and took a video of our place finally!




Lisa may or may not have finished at See's this week.  They left it pretty confusing for her.  She was hired as a temporary holiday worker but many times they have expressed to her that they are not laying her off.  Whatever that means.

My job is, well, a job.  People still have problems with their orders and I still deal with them.  The week leading up to Christmas was crazy!  There were some really sad calls and some really angry ones.  I've noticed that when people get mean I get really "smart" with them.  They don't seem to appreciate that.  I had one guy who was really mad and he just said "are you guys even a company???" and after a long pause I said, "yes".  I'm not really sure what they expect me to say to them.  Nothing anyone says to me is ever going to change anything.  People always tell me to make sure that this gets changed, or something hears about that.  I don't think most people realize they are calling a giant call center full of hundreds of people.

"Hey can I speak with Roger?"

"What?"

"Last time I called I spoke with Roger.  Is he there today?"

"Maybe, I'm not sure, there are a hundred other people here."

I could go on.

Anyways, Lisa is making some dinner so I better see if she needs help.  We have more pictures and video's from today I'll have to add those later sometime.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Here's a long lost Christmas card we were going to send out before we chose our real one.  Please to enjoy.

the one about Christmas and other things

Hi.


It's been awhile.


...

How are you?

So i failed at keeping this up to date.... again....  I don't even remember what I last wrote about.  Probably before we got our crate.  We have mostly everything put away now from it so we will have to load some pictures soon with it all organized.

As soon as we got most of our stuff put away we realized it was 9 days till Christmas and we hadn't purchased any of our gifts yet!  So for the last few days now we've been working our tales off to get all of our items out.  We have also very much enjoy receiving packages as well.  We are waiting though to open most of them till Christmas.  That is if we can hold out.

Last night was the first night in a while Lisa and I have had off together where we weren't putting away items from our cube so we went out to a local Mexican restaurant that a co-worker of Lisa's suggested for us and it was by far the best Mexican we have had since moving here.  It was at Miguel's Cocina in point loma.  Afterwards on the way home we also ran into a super bright neighborhood that was covered in Christmas lights!  Check the link for pictures.  There is also a couple in there of our apartment right after we emptied the U-Haul from the cube.

busy bee's

we've been super busy with our apartment lately now that we have unloaded our storage cube.  Or little studio is really cluttered.  So unfortunately I don't have any new pictures yet, but I will soon.  I must say though sleeping on a real bed is amazing!

So since I don't have anything of any real value, he's a photo I took of ocean beach today!

and it goes on and on and on

This will probably be one of the lamer updates.  Lisa and I have mostly just been working lately.  Sunday Lisa went in early to Michael's to get some extra work finished at 6am then around noon went and worked at See's until 6:30pm.  So I know that was a really long day for her.  That night when she got off we went to Church and came home and basically went to sleep since she was exhausted and I had to work the next day (today) at 6:30am.  Which I am doing now.

Monday's are crazy I've decided.  All the crazy people in America must decide that hey, its monday and I'm at work, I might as well do some online shopping.  You also get more of the rushed people who are in a huge hurry to place their order.  Probably because they are suppose to be working.  Also lots of people are probably getting to work and reading their emails or whatever after the weekend and realizing something is wrong with their order.  Either way, the people are just not as pleasant on Monday's.

On another note we're finally in black.  We're no longer just losing money and now that we have jobs we're finally able to sustain ourselves.  We're also incredibly excited about getting our moving crate soon.  I need to call them this afternoon to set up a time to pick it up.  We might not be able to get it till Friday because that's the only day Lisa and I have any real time off to get it together.  Otherwise I might have to recruit Abby's lady power to help me.  She doesn't know this yet though.

a tuesday trip

Lisa got off at 1pm yesterday afternoon so we went ahead and took a scooter picnic trip down to the south end of the pennisula, the National Cabrillo Monument Park. It was a really great afternoon. We made some leftover turkey into some turkey sandwiches and packed them into the back of the scooter. We stop by our scooter store on the way down to pick up a new helmet. This time we got a full helmet with a front anti-fog shield so that Lisa will no longer have to wipe tears from her face when she gets to work from the cold whipping air on her face. We did take some pictures here:

Its kind of hard to encompass the view in those photos though. You could see all the way to Tijuana as well as downtown San Diego. You could also see some islands down south near the Baja. It was really beautiful. There was also an old decomissioned Light House on the point. Unfortunetly the park closed at 5pm and we had to leave before we could make it down near the new one. We will have to go back soon.

Also exciting news! We should be receiving our shipping crate very soon! We processed our order for it Tuesday so it should be shipping out today. They said it takes approximately 5 to 6 days to arrive so it might be her sometime the middle of next week. We're extremely excited about getting it so we can finally have a bed to sleep in, my guitar to play, our art to hang, and my professional camera to take pictures.

Other than that things have been pretty awesome. Its been a little cold her record breaking from what I've heard. So its felt cold, but nothing we aren't used to. Its normally pretty sunny too which is nice. Although it disappears way to soon.

Also I'm writing this at work so I guess I do have a little bit of time between calls at work. Don't tell anyone though.