this year, just like last year, me and my family will be skipping the traditional gift exchange and donating to charity. personally it feels much better to me to and i enjoy the holidays more when i am not running around looking for gifts for people that really don’t need them. i also think our society has made christmas into a holiday more about receiving presents than anything else and there are too many people and animals that truly are in need to be giving frivolous presents to people that have everything anyway.
if this sounds like a good idea too and you want to donate, these are a few of my favorite charities - ASPCA,World Wildlife Fund,The Humane Society and the local Washington Animal Rescue League

on friday! zeni and brody tie the knot on saturday in yosemite and then 6 days of hanging out in the sunshine with my john john!

woah! i just rediscovered this song this morning and have been listening to it on repeat for the past 2 hours.
(ignore the stupid cd advertisement in the beginning)

funny yet also kind of depressing…very eye opening. everyone should see this movie!

David Byrne was just as magical as I hoped he would be and we had amazing seats! Our own little box right next to the sound guy! Only downside was that we missed the first couple minutes and the sound guys just so happened to be a total ass.
The next week me, Natalie and John saw Kathy Griffin at DAR Constitution Hall. Me and Natalie LOVED every minute of the show but I think there were a few times when I saw John’s eyes just kind of glaze over. Oh well… he was probably the only straight guy there and I think some of the stuff just went right over his head.

Biggest news of the past couple weeks is I got a new job! I’ll be working on site at USPS for akqa . It is super exciting! Check it out…

So Me and John broke down and got iPhones today, waited in line from 8:00am -10:00am this morning to get them. Initially I was very against the whole iPhone trend. I hate being around people who spend the whole time on their phones playing with the internet and email when there is a real live person right in front of them. But I also really hated the crappy service we got with T-Mobile so we found a way to avoid early termination fees (T-Mobile is raising their text message rates at the end of August which is a breach of contract) and we got our new phones! I’m not going to lie they are pretty awesome.

Haven’t had much time to play with it though cause I had to take little Simon to the vet again. Seems his anal sacs are bothering him..poor little guy! So they gave him a silly little collar to wear so we won’t lick himself. Let’s just say he is not too happy about it

This year John gave me the best birthday present EVER… two little kitties! Meet Simon and Nola! 

I have a quote in this month’s On Tap Magazine about the X in DC event I participated in. Wowee!