i called in sick to work yesterday, so i got to relax, read, and write a few christmas cards, but now i'm back at work. surprisingly, i'm in a pretty good mood today...i wonder if it's just 'cuz i've been exercising a little bit more, what with our beektory team reunion.

yesterday, after i rested most of the day, we had another team get-together (+ Michelle). (side note: on the way to eunice's where we were meeting, art and i had an interesting talk about friendships and what it means to love...God, family, friends) went to old town pasadena and had dinner. the whole purpose of our outing was to find this supposedly amazing display of christmas lights somewhere nearby. so after dinner, we headed out and ended up at christmas tree lane. it was basically this one block of houses with huge trees all trimmed with blinking colored lights. it had a really festive feel, but i think some of us were expecting something else. at any rate, it was nice.

we went to ghiradelli's afterwards and split an earthquake...we actually did a pretty good job, until everyone started spitting knotted cherry stems. yes, susan, arthur, and eunice will make their significant others happy. we started playing pasoi and ended up closing the shop down, which was pretty cool 'cuz they had all these leftover chocolate samples that they offered to us on the way out...even gave us paper bags to put them in.

eunice had to stop by her office to pick up some work files, so we explored her building...for some reason, people wanted to see her conference room, so we went there and after admiring the view, we actually had our own team meeting about who we should have join our team. stayed there until 1 in the morning discussing the pros and cons of various "candidates" (we're kinda exclusive...we justify it by the fact that the 5 of us have good chemistry and understand how to play together, so we need the 6th person to mesh with the rest of us...not an easy task). even wrote on the posterboard...

though i'm now suffering as a result of last night, i had a fun time...reminded me of college days...