Finally, It's Almost Over...

I'm referring to the holiday sale season. I have GOT to stop shopping.

After three trips to Woodbury Commons and multiple trips through New York City's Fifth Ave and Soho, I've probably bought five times as much stuff for myself than all the presents I bought for others combined! I guess someone has to keep the economy going. Hah!

But seriously, even though I'm being facetious, my heart goes out to everyone who's suffering from the recession. From all the bad news of deteriorating funds and suicidal billionaires to the families losing credit and their jobs.

Keep your head up guys. There's a silver lining there somewhere.

Happy Holidays!

Ah.. another holiday season.

At years' end, I always take some time to reflect on what happened. And needless to say, it has been a crazy year.

With all that's happened in the world; with the recession, still being in two wars, equal rights set backs. Sigh.

Of course, hope is ever present: moving in with Boopy, a new job opportunity, friends, crazy brunches, Obama, Housewives of Atlanta, amazing sales. Ahh...

The best thing to do in this situation is to acknowledge the bad, and cherish the good; that's what I intend to do. I'm letting those crazy things just wash over me while I let my safety beacon of happiness carry me through. I find that I work best that way - it even helps to propel me to do more good.

And I plan to do more good in the new year. So as this year comes to a close, I want to extend my beacon of happiness to ya'll by wishing you a wondrous holiday season and best wishes for the new year! Oh, and do some good, too.

Video Chat?

Decline.

No.

Why would I want to video chat with you? So you can see me pick my nose?

No thank you!

The Season for... Serving?

So tomorrow I'm helping a friend out by cater-waitering. A part of me wants to help a brother out, but the other part of me thinks it would be fun. I don't exactly know why.

Maybe because it's something different. Maybe because I'm waiting to see how horrible (or not) I would be at it. But maybe it's because I'll pull a Will (from Will & Grace) when Jack asks him to help cater-waiter and he just pretends to be part of the party. Hah!

Did I say "fun"? I meant "funny".

And speaking of funny, I've been in love with the Real Housewives of Atlanta, but this parody my friend Div turned me onto -- priceless.

Happy Thanksgiving!

There's so much to give thanks for this year. New job, new apartment, new president. (Woot woot!)

So I'm giving thanks. I might even dress my turkey up in stars and stripes.

Hope you all have as much to be thankful for and a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Protest Against Prop 8, NYC

After I decided to attend the rally last night against the Mormon Church's involvement in the passing of Prop 8, I was questioned why. And to my surprise, even though I felt that Prop 8 was wrong, both civilly and morally, I couldn't readily give a reason why I was deliberately protesting the Mormon church; which boiled down to: I didn't know the facts.

So on the internet, I found out that the Mormon Church had something to do with Prop 8 passing. And given the fact they're a religious institution, I'm sure most others can verbalize in better terms why religious institutions have no right directing public policies.

But the main reason why I protested was because of their hypocrisy: they claim to "promote tolerance" but turn around and vote for intolerance; that's not right. If I a sign, it would read, "Where's the tolerance in Prop 8?"

The turnout was great. And to quote a fellow protester, "Damn, there are too many hot guys here, I can't concentrate!", after he messed up a chant. And now, some memorable chants of the evening:

"Gay, Straight, Black, White, Marriage is a civil right."
"Tax This Church!"
"What do we want? EQUALITY! When do we want it? NOW!"
"A people, UNITED, will never be, DEFEATED!"

Hehe! Okay, that last one wasn't really a chant, I just overheard someone say it, and I can't help but giggle every time I repeat it (because the last part should be 'divided', get it?! eh? eh?!)