I finally went through the incredibly tedious process of making my voice-recognition software work again. Long story short, I had upgraded to version eight, but was not able to go back to seven when the trial ran out. I feel pretty sick this morning… and I’m not quite sure why. I guess I should have some breakfast.

My new Bluetooth headset came in the mail yesterday, and it is incredibly cool. When I pair it with my Mac, I’m able to get crystal-clear reception all over my room (meaning I can talk via Skype or iChat wirelessly), and I also am able to even get reception all the way the kitchen. When I walk too far away to get reception, as soon as I come back it is automatically reconnected, as opposed to other ones I’ve tried where you have to re-pair it if you lose connection for even a moment. It’s so great not have to hold the phone up to my face for hours… that really irritates my wrists.

It’s Christmas Eve and I somehow have to magically get everyone presents. I feel extremely selfish lately… I didn’t get my Christmas cards and in the mail in time, and I haven’t gotten a single person presents yet. For one, I’m broke, and for two, it takes two buses full of larcenous poor people to get to the mall. Eh, I can’t make excuses.

My other cousin Michael is here as well… and I feel hesitant to leave my room. There are just too many people here and Kelly is nowhere to be found. I remember every holiday I would come down and immediately disappear to Kelly’s house and we would all have crazy antics and drama and Crash Bandicoot… I feel like that part of my life is dead.

Oh yeah, yesterday we went to Matthew’s party… it wasn’t really a party, it was more of the gathering… one of the boys there seemed utterly surprised that no one was paying attention to him. I love that “I’m a pretty twink, everyone look at me” attitude. Also, I don’t have much respect for Matthew’s taste in music, and it’s really hard to get into a party with everyone rocking out to John Mayer *puke*. Bring on the Nails and Ladytron, bitches.

All in all, I would have to say was a pretty fun outing. I drank Sprite with coconut rum and we watched Lewis Black (my personal God) and a bunch of YouTube videos on Kevin’s laptop. After everybody went home, me and Adrian stayed the night at Matt’s (as it was in advisable to drive home at like 3 a.m.). The next morning we surfed the Web for a while and tried to wake Matt up… then we all ate some pot roast that we had put on the crock pot in the night before, left the house, got Starbucks, and he dropped us off at our houses.

I spent most of last night playing with my Bluetooth headset. The family got pizza and we were all watching Entrapment… that retarded movie with Sean Connery and the T-Mobile chick. I ended up putting Babylon 5 on my iPod and watching it out there. I’m realizing how much I absolutely hate my drunk loser uncle John. He is SO like that scene in Family Guy where Peter starts the group for the advancement of fat people:

He makes those fat guy sounds ALL DAY LONG. They are so loud they drown out the TV.

Anyway, I woke up at like noon and I still haven’t really left my room… I guess I think that if I boycott Christmas it just won’t happen. I’m embarrassed that I don’t have presents for anybody. I should probably call Kelly and see what the hell is going on.

Oh, did I talk about the car shopping? We went to the Roseville auto mall like two days ago… those salespeople are SO shady. I think my dad and I made a great team though… we absolutely refused to sit down at the table where they wheel and deal you… at one of the dealerships the guy would not give us a quote unless we sat down, so we called his bluff and just walked out. He went from having all the power in the situation to having no power at all… it was masterful.

At the end of the day, we went to check out one of the cars we saw on Craigslist, a 2001 Hyundai Accent with 57,000 miles on it. It was a really nice car, but the guy wants 5,000 and my dad doesn’t want to pay 5,000. The Kelley blue book of the car is like $5,100… the guy is not going to take $4,000, like my dad wants.

Well, I should probably go out into the living room and socialize… I need that damn car.