Christmas was ok for me. I spent Christmas Eve at my dad's side of the family. We went over to Oakland where about 25 of us got together. I'm not very close to this side of the family, because they aren't really related to my dad much. The only reason he knows them is through his uncle, and he passed away in January. His "real" family is in Canada. But nevertheless, we had dinner with them on Christmas Eve. The hardest part about the family get-together is when people talk to you. I know that sounds silly, but it's true. The #1 question I get is "So where are you going to college now?" And of course, I give them the ol' "Oh, I'm at a community college in San Francisco." And the same response: "Oh, that's nice, it's a great way to save money." I guess people always expect kids to go to top name schools, or as I like to call them, Brand Name Colleges. But it really wasn't too bad. Last year it was the "So where are you going to college next year?" questionaire (which I'm sure all your seniors are getting now, and as you now know, that's impossible to answer until May). I also got the "what's your major" quiz, and when I told my "aunt" I was aiming towards economics, she blabbed it out to the entire table and told me so-and-so was an econ major and that I should ask him for advice. Gee, that's great. Really.

I got a lot of money this Christmas (money is always good), so me and Dave headed down to Blockbusters to pick up some DVDs. I bought How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days and Master of Disguise to go along with Corky Romano. I now have the trio of movies that would make movie critics throw up. I watched How To Lose A Guy today. It was great watching Kate Hudson. I enjoyed watching her performance (performance=body) and I believe she has a lot of talent (talent=sex appeal). Then I started thinking about actor's and their world. I go to this one Kate Hudson website to read up on updates in her life and to get nice desktop pictures (I'm not a perv ok? All the pictures of her have her with clothing on). But it must be weird having your every important life moment captured by the media and talked about on websites. If I stumbled upon a website that had secret pictures of me and had gossip about me, I'd be scared. But I think this comes with being a celebrity, and that most celebrities learn to accept it. I just find it weird how people do all kinds of crap everyday and nobody cares. But when someone "important" makes just one slip, everybody is all over them for being politically incorrect, or speaking their mind. This is why I would never want to be a celebrity (I had the chance to, but I decided to hide away my secret Hollywood acting skills and save it for later).

Yesterday I spent the entire day listing stuff on eBay. I spent two straight hours sitting in front of my computer and listed 24 items to sell. People don't realize how much time it takes to sell stuff on eBay, and would probably laugh at me when I say I'm tired after being on the computer. My brother sold one item yesterday and he said it took him forever. My brother and I were looking at video games yesterday on eBay and discovered our old Super Nintendo games could bring in a fortune (we just started playing our Super Mario Kart game again). We didn't realize people are still paying good money for such old school video games. I started playing our old Pac-Man on Atari 2600 too. A lot of the old-school games is just block figures, yet back then that was a technological masterpiece. I wonder what the future holds for video games. Maybe one day there will be some Kate Hudson video game where I get to be her husband. I'll tell you one thing, that game will not be a marketing disaster.

The new year is coming up. I wrote down New Year's Resolutions for 2003, and I'm pretty sure I did not accomplish any of them. For my next post, I will list my 2004 Resolutions. Peace in the Middle East, and Word To All Your Mothers.