Tiffany's Killer Choco-Coconut Pudding 1 package instant vanilla or chocolate pudding (the cooked kind won't work; all the alcohol will cook away)
1 cup cold milk
1/2 cup cold coconut rum
1/2 cup cold creme de cacao
1/2 cup Cool Whip
1/2 cup mini marshmallows

Whisk together the pudding, the alcohol, and the milk until it starts to thicken, then add the marshmallows. Once it gets a little thicker, stir in the Cool Whip. Yum. It's also great on graham crackers! Woo hoo!! (Can you tell I've had some?!)

I got a real digital camera for Christmas! Woohoo!! I took tons of pictures at my family shindig yesterday, as well as a bunch of others I haven't uploaded anywhere yet. 

Well, I'm officially unemployed again. Guess I will be putting in applications all day on Friday, when my mom can take me to some places...

No plans for New Years; perhaps I'll just get drunk online again with my best friend like we spent Christmas eve! And the weekend after that is the company Xmas party for the store where I was working... that should be interesting....

12.22.05
A survey both emailed to me by my cousin, and found posted on Kelli's blog:

1.What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Move out of a nice, warm, sunny state to go live in a cold, shitty one?

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions and will you make more for next year?
I don't bother making New Year's resolutions anymore.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not while I knew them; a girl I know now from work had a baby three months ago but I've only known her three weeks.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What countries did you visit?
I don't think I even made it down to Mexico in 2005.

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
My goddamned independence and sanity.

7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I don't think there are any specific dates I'll remember about this year.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Uhhh... finally finding a job, albeit a temporary one...?

9. What was your biggest failure?
Having to move back in with my mother in this godforsaken state.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Technically, I injured myself in 2004, but I've been paying for it ever since!

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My ionic hair dryer.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Nobody's, that stands out to me.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Old Dub'ya... Dr. Phil.....

14. Where did most of your money go?
Into moving all my shit to this lousy tundra of a state!

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Seeing my friends Lynette and Barb again for the first time in YEARS.

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Greenday

i. happier or sadder? Sadder.
ii. thinner or fatter? Fatter. I'm up 10 pounds from last year!
iii. richer or poorer? About the same

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Really enjoying the time I was still in AZ, and hanging out with Amy and Joey.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Feeling depressed and hopeless.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
At my aunt's, eating a bunch of fattening food and listening to all the happy, paired-off members of my family enjoy themselves.

21. Did you fall in love?
Hell no.

23. How many one-night stands?
ZERO

24. What was your favourite TV program?
Arrested Development, Survivor, Nip/Tuck

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? I don't hate people; however, there are people I distinctly dislike....

26. What was the best book you read?
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I don't recall that I discovered any great new music this year...

28. What did you want and get?
I never get anything I really want.

29. What did you want and not get?
A fucking job in Arizona.

30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I don't even remember for sure. I think I went out with my friend Joshio for sushi. And I'm not telling how old I turned.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably satisfying?
Being able to stay in Arizona.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Jeans, shorts, tank tops, anything comfortable and casual.

34. What kept you sane?
I liked my cousin Heather's answer here: ALCOHOL! And my best friend Kerri.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Nobody I feel like mentioning here.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The whole thing with Hurricane Katrina and our shitty response time to it, due to all our efforts and people being too busy focusing on other countries besides our own.

37. Who did you miss?
I missed all my friends in NYC, and since moving here, all my friends in AZ as well.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Either Amy, Joey, or the gang I'm working with at the store right now. I can't name any one person.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
Don't you mean in 2005? That's the year we're recapping, here! I learned that just because someone is your family doesn't mean you have to be anything like them, and if you're not, and you're still proud of who you are, you can't let them get to you.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"My shadow's the only one that walks beside me..." - Greenday, Boulevard of Broken Dreams
 

12.18.05
Ok, so I realize I haven't updated in nearly a month. I am working five days a week, and really ridiculous hours. The job itself is damn easy and the people I work with are cool, but I have to ride in at least an hour early every day and hang out for an hour after my shift while they pack up the jewelry & close the store, since that's part of my mom's job and not mine.

I miss sleep.

And I spend wayyyy too much time in Cub Foods. They probably think I'm a real freak. There's just little else open early and closed late, and unless I wanna spend hours running around in the subzero (literally) temperatures and spend money I don't have, it's my best option for killing time. They have booths I can sit in and read and listen to headphones, so that works for me.

I am getting my own phone line installed here Thursday, because since I have no life, home, or anything else of my own, I gotta have my goddamn bloody internet, and heaven forbid it interfere with mother's phone chatting time... all I have is the internet, and I'm not about to give it up, damn it.