Writer's Block

If you had to give up either chocolate or your mobile phone forever, which would you sacrifice?

This is like asking me to chose between my kids, but harder...

All my friends live in my cell phone and my life would be a boring dull existence without the pleasures of chocolate.

Decisions, decisions...

Right now I would chose to sacrifice my cell.

• Reason one, because I have the internet at home now and I am not solely dependent on it for the internet and communications to the outside world.
• Reason two, right now I want to take a sledge hammer to my unsmart not a palm phone. The blackberry has a scroll (like a mouse) well the clicker went almost immediatly and right now I can't scroll up or to the right. Which means I can't get to most of my shortcuts (like address book and volume). It's quite irritating me. It also locks up all the time. I get the hourglass from hell and it will freeze during phone calls or make me wait a 1/2 hour to get to a web page.
• Reason three, I ate lindt chocolates and they were like complete and utter bliss (gift from my boss). I could have closed my eyes and just enjoyed them if I hadn't of been gorging them at work as quickly as possible so I wouldn't be forced to share.

Happy Holiday

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday. I will be home (RELAXING) so I will be flooding Multiply with my usual banter, over abundance of warm fuzzies and bright sunshine. I know a lot of you will be busy (and offline) so I wanted to wish you all a happy holiday before you all vanished to do what normal people do on family occasions.

Writer's Block: Holiday cheer

Do you tend to get nostalgic during the holidays? Depressed? Giddy? How do the winter holidays make you feel?

Holidays bring back memories, some of them are happy but one bad day ruined all the "happy". My dad had his stroke on Boxing Day. He was on his way to visit me and instead of seeing him walk through my door, I received a call that broke me. My dad was all about the holidays, there was not one Christmas he didn't drive all the way to visit me. I miss him most days, but more so over Christmas. It's a lonely time for me. I realize all that I have lost.

Besides my dad, I find it a depressing and stressful time. I always break my bank account and this year I may have shattered it. It is not a holiday I believe in, but I don't have the guts to not conform to everyone's expectations of me during this time of year. I am not a Christian, but because of my kids and extended family I do the whole Christmas thing. I have no religious connections to the holiday.

Low-down of my xmas holiday:

1 week to xmas: OMG PRESSIE SHOPPING
1 day to xmas: OMG *insert number of hours here*
xmas day: OMG PRESSIES YAYZ!!
days after xmas: Sigh, I'm depressed now
new years eve: Reflect
new years day: Relax
day after new year: Sigh, I'm depressed now. Where the heck did my holiday go?

This Time Jack Baurer has gone too far.