My Car...My Beautiful Beautiful Car...

I wasn't a big fan of my car when I first got it. I've never been a fan of Honda's but with my car, it gave me reason to like it. But I think it's really only on an individual basis. I still dislike Hondas...I just love mine.
After nine years of taking such great care of my car and with no involved accidents, looks like fate finally caught up with me and ruin my perfect car and record.
I was leaving the mall today and got side swiped by some teenage driver. My entire driver side doors are completely smashed in. I can't even lock my door so I can't go anywhere.
Nobody was hurt...only my car.
I don't know what's going to happen now. I have to take my car in for an appraisal to see what kind of damages were done to my car. My insurance says that if there's structural damages that they could possibly declare a total loss on my car and pay me for the cost of my car.
I don't know what I want to happen. I don't want to say goodbye to the car cuz the engine's still so good. It barely hit 100000 miles. It's got an entire lifetime to live. I feel so cheated...that's all I know.

The Best Christmas Gift EVER!

It must have been around 3pm on Xmas eve day when a package arrived for me. I was still expecting a couple of gifts to arrive this day, but one of the packages I received during this delivery was one totally unexpected.
It came in a large brown folder size envelope. I was puzzled until I viewed the package more closely. And when I saw that it came from France, I knew exactly who it was from. I was literally jumping for joy and couldn't wait to open the letter. So I did. I pulled out a big blue folder and opened it. In there was the biggest Christmas card letter I had ever received!
On the cover was a drawing of me with my four cousins that one of my cousin drew. She is such a great artist! I was just opening the card to see its inside when I stopped myself.
"NO!"...I said. "I am going to save this for tonight and open it with my other one present I will be receiving". So back in the envelope it went.
It was so hard to put that card back in the envelope, but I had to. I wanted it to be one of my Christmas gifts to open. I'm glad I did. That night as I saved my best gift for last, alas the moment came to open the card and read its contents.
It was the most special thing ever! There was a personalized message from each of the girls wishing me Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years.
I was smiling and jumping for joy on the outside, but crying my ass off on the inside cuz I had missed them all so much.
I've never received such a personalized gift to this magnitude before in my life. The card means so much to me. I will find a nice place to put it soon. Maybe over my bed...hahaha...as one of them suggested to me.
I called them to thank you for the gift today. I was so happy to hear their voices again.

Giving Is Receiving

Today we had our dept. Xmas luncheon. We were asked to bring an unwrapped gift to donate. The other day I went out to buy a few gifts to donate. I guess my good deed didn't go unnotice cuz during a drawing, my number was pulled and I won a $50 gift card. Someone made the joke that I won it cuz I donated so many gifts. Well...that certainly was not my intention. I wanted to donate those gifts. I had already plan on doing so even before this luncheon. I just saved it for this occasion.
But the best part was after winning, Henry won the very next round. Then it was Josh and then Gabe. It was like a UH surge...hahaha. We were representin for sure.
The luncheon was good. I needed the break.
But the giving didn't stop there. Shortly when I got back to the office and sat down, my manager called me into her office. There I recieved a "Great Job" award certificate to get on-line and select a prize. The price will most likely be valued around $200. I was really surprised to have receive this award.
O...but it didn't even stop there. Later that afternoon as Carlos and I were meeting with a vendor, we both received a package from CDW. We had no idea what it was and when I opened my package...it was a huge tin can of cookies. It must have came from Nadene. She is a sweetheart....an absolute sweetheart! I will have to call her tomorrow to thank you.
I guess a little does go a long way. But I sure did not donate those gifts expecting anything in return....let's get that clear!

Hard at Work Working Hard

Yeah...all I've been doing lately is working. I know I've been saying that in the past few blogs and it's getting old....but I'm getting old with it. I feel so tired all the freakin time now....errr.
But all that late-night working until 1 in the morning sort of paid off. Today was our commercialization meeting (to say whether or not to move forward and produce the product) and all the high-level management accepted the the project, so everyone was happy.
I got a lot of thanks from my managers. The boss took us out for lunch and everyone insisted that I selected the restaurant. I ended picking PF Changs. I thought that was a safe place for everyone. There were 5 of us. I wanted to find a medium for everyone's different taste bud. Seemed to have been a good choice.

Well...besides from work...

I've been helping my uncle, from Paris, order a couple of Rolex watches here in the states. The place is located in San Fran. He'll be visiting LA soon so he'll stop by to pick up the watches.
They are lovely watches....wow!

Then last weekend we had our company Christmas party. I was sick as a dog but there wasn't anything that drugs couldn't cure. I was so hopped up on meds just to keep myself alive and awake to enjoy the party. Illenny was my date. We had a really good time. She was smoking hot in her dress.

The next day I received a call from my cousins in Paris. It was so great to hear their voices again. I miss them all so much!

Well...that brings me up to the most recent thing. In Facebook, I found an old friend from high school that I was so excited to hear from, but she's kind of set me off from wanting to meet up with her now. We've been trying to schedule a day to get together, but our schedules are completely off and then she goes calling me "difficult". I'll show her difficult alright!
Eh...it's all good. I'm sure it's all fun and games. Nothing personal. I laughed about it. But I can't wait to see her again.

Well, I guess that's all I have to report this time. Seems like nothing is that great anymore ever since I've came back from Paris. I've been spoiled...hahaha. I feel nothing is worth blogging about anymore...:( j/k.