Achievement Unlocked: Making Nerds Angry

Dear Intrawebz.
I have found a new joy in life, and that is making fun of the nerds who need to take pictures of themselves with their brand new prestige editions of Call of Duty: Black Ops. I mean really, are you THAT much in need of it? I can't WAIT until World of Warcraft: Cataclysm gets released. It just really won't be funny enough. Anyhow, playing CoD on a 60" TV has kind of ruined Xbox for me now, seeing as I do not have a high-definition TV, nor do I have a 60" TV. Makes me sad. Ah well, one day!

So, Short post today, I'm off to clean my room, so that the Telus guy installing my intranets/optik TV doesn't get too disgusted. And so that he doesn't judge me. Or worry about stepping on things. I think I might just put everything in the closet and close the door, and empty out the garbage cans.

See you later Intrawebz! I shall be able to blog more often as of tomorrow night! Yay!
-Craig

Achievement Unlocked: Christmas Can Wait

So, today at work was an interesting day. Firstly, we started a new program where each sales associate keeps track of their sales and tries to hit a personal goal, predetermined by either my supervisor, or myself. It makes it a little easier to keep track of sales, who you've talked to/dealt with. Plus, it's more fun within the department to see who can sell more and the competitive atmosphere. Secondly, our lovely project team managed to redo our speaker section, so now we can actually let customers hear what the speakers we have for sale sound like! YAY! It's great, because now we have new toys to destroy peoples' ears with. And lastly, they have already put up the wonderful (read: annoying) displays for Christmastime. Oh joy, it's not even Guy Fawkes day, and we already have Christmas decorations and music playing in the store. Could it at least wait until after Remembrance Day? Or even after the American Thanksgiving? Does it really need to be 50 days of Christmas? If you can't tell, Intrawebz, Craig is not pleased with this development. He is a Scrooge until December hits, and then it's all of the sudden a huge rush and then finished. I really should get started on my shopping for presents for family and such this year, however, I'm not that huge on Christmas presents. I like the more...family oriented side to it, the togetherness. I'm really not a huge fan of the commercialization of the holiday. Which will make it a wonderful segue (I've always wanted to use that whilst writing!) into my plans for the aforementioned festivities. I shall be traveling down to Calgary on Christmas Eve to visit Rachel's family. Unfortunately, I have to work Boxing Day for the ridiculous sales and boxing day shoppers that will be frantically searching for ridiculous deals. Once again, the dislike for commercialization. Boxing Day is supposed to be a relaxing day, where you spend time with friends who were otherwise busy with family the day before. It's the time to show off your gifts and brag about how amazing the dinner the night before was. It must be that Christmas chez moi was always a relaxed (or relatively so) affair. Always low-key, with minimal drama, so long as every one had planned enough to get appropriate gifts, and Mum didn't have to cook the feast by herself. This also marks the first Christmas away from my parents, and I'm not entirely sure how well I'll fare on the bus ride home. I'll most likely give them a call. My Mum is coming out to visit after Christmas to see how I'm doing and where I'm living, which will be nice. It'll mostly be nice just to see her, depending on how much I'm working and such. I do miss them, and I've found (as have most of my friends) that your relationship with your parents definitely gets better after you move out, and you realize how much you actually miss them. Then you go home, and after a couple days or so, can't wait to leave again. Also, wow this has gotten long. Slight rant about Christmas turned into a long, slightly depressing blahg. Sorry, Intrawebz, but for some reason my inner angsty-emo side has been surfacing on mein blahg lately. I assure you that my life is going amazingly well, and that the only real complaint that I have is that I have to listen to Christmas music for close to 50 days straight now. Hopefully it'll end on December 24th, externally anyways. I have a feeling I'll be humming carols and Christmas tunes until my brain turns to mush. Wish me luck!
-Craig.
P.S. Man did I write the word Christmas a ton! Sorry 'bout that... Also, I need to learn how to paragraph again. My bad.