hello from work, day two. so apparently in between phone calls, packages, more phone calls and other random requests i will have tons of free time on my hands. which.. can be a good thing.. once i feel more comfortable - maybe i can start to lurk and see if there's anything else i can do. one thing i'm not terribly kean on today is that the girl who is training me is not here... so today is kind of a sink of swim kind of day. there's some other people who could possibly sit with me and hold my hand, but this isn't their position, so they have other things that need to be done - so it's just me. i get to go over to another department and cover another girl for lunch and i'll have about 1 hour worth of training for that..so.. um yay? it's a little overwhelming.. and sure i only get better by doing it.. so i'm a little unsure - but i am learning, and hopefully it'll all be gravy soon :P

new year's was okay :P i got into yet another fight with my mom. i think they are timed around holidays... when i'm feeling good and relaxed... boom.. angry yelling matches. i spent the day locked in my room cleaning and being a sulking teenager, how nice :P but.. i did watch a lot of sex and the city.. in fact, i spent around 4 days or so cleaning and watching (mostly watching) and watched seasons 1, 2 and half of 3 :P philly would be proud. it's so addicting... but i keep rotating what box sets i'm watching - which is sometimes spurred by which one i've bought most recently and not watched. so i got season 6 part 2 and since i haven't watched any of it.. i thought i'd pop them in. the only sucky part is that they don't play all at once - so each time the episode ends i have to go back to the menu and push play again, and since i lost my remote i always have to stop what i'm doing to go to the player. i guess this is the one time where i'm glad my room's not that big :P

celebrated new year's eve with dinner at todai with the family... i was on the phone locked in my room, and they left without me... but i went and joined them later.. which was good, because my mom lightened up a little and i guess since i "took the first step" then she didn't have to grimace through the whole dinner or be mad at me for a few days. afterwards i met up with vivian, josh and HT at henessey's. i had to pay a cover since i got there later (boo) but it was okay.. i don't think i paid for any of my drinks :) the only sucky part was i totally missed the new year. i was standing up, champagne in hand, and people were screaming.. but i didn't hear any counting! and then people started screaming louder and drinking and we were all like huh? and looked at our cell phones and it was already midnight. oops. after that we walked for a long long time because we didn't really feel like fighting the tons of people trying to get the 2 cabs that were driving by. that's the sucky part about the non-mass transportationess of LA. especially where i had just come back from taiwan where it is so easy to catch a cab, hop on the bus or MRT or something. we walked for a long long time, and finally caught a cab (after it was dropping people off.. because it was the HARDEST thing to try and stop cabs, cabs without people in them wouldn't stop. cabs with people in them had their lights on still.. and one cab we finally got to stop wouldn't take us.. i don't really know why, but someone else hopped in the car and he took off even though vivian said she'd pay twice his fare. how shady is that?! it's almost like the amazing race or something.

new year's day was a little uneventful, cleaning... i didn't even watch the rose parade! i watched a little bit of it, but got kind of bored.. so i just watched sex and the city :P did some returning to a pretty uncrowded mall and chillaxed at home. sunday i was cleaning some more and then went to a referee's hockey game at my work.. it was kind of funny, kind of boring. i went just because i thought i "should" go.. and suck up or be social or whatever.. i didn't really know who a lot of the people were on the ice.. especially if they were wearing cages. at the "after party" decorated by some of the ref's wives (it was so cute!) i had some yummy home baked cookies and brownies and rice krispy treats. i left early so i could go hang out with beth & co. at 501... yay for smoky fobby korean karaoke places :P it was fun though and we sang rap, metal, songs from movies and 80's.

i am still on sort of a weird sleep schedule. i don't think it's jet lag.. but normally when i could sleep forever.. i will only be able to sleep 7-8 hours and won't be able to go back to sleep to save my life. which sucks. and then i get soooo tired so early. last night after i got home from work i ate dinner and then "rested my eyes" this morning i woke up at 4am and couldn't go to sleep, so i watched some tv, then went to the gym, took my time eating breakfast, showered, and then drove to work. i was a little early again today, but not 30 minutes which is good. plus there was more traffic so i had a better gauge of exactly how long it would take. the good thing about this whacked out sleep schedule is that i am on time or early to work.. when i was deathly afraid of not being able to wake up at all. plus i am more productive in the morning instead of dragging my half awake sorry butt around. the down side is that i am in bed by like 8pm. so when i start working hockey games again and have to be up until midnight.. that might be a problem :P but today i'm going ice skating with the girls so this can be a good test of my ability to stay up. hopefully when i have stuff to do it's easier to be up.

it's still raining like crazy! we just had a spurt of really hard rain for like 10 minutes.. it was crazy. the rain is also deterring me from doing my laundry, because i don't want to go outside - even though it's covered it gets kind of wet.. yuck. plus it's freezing cold, and that's never any fun... unless your inside, with hot chocolate, a blanket and pajamas. there was a huge accident on the freeway yesterday.. and it was weird because as i was passing it (on the other side) i got really sad and almost started to cry. yikes.. so.. stay safe when you're driving in the rain okay?! be careful babies.. love you!