A fancy word to describe Christmas lights: shining forth brightly. In that vein, I’ve finally posted some pictures of our Christmas lights. So far, I’ve only posted the outside ones. I’ll have the rest up by tomorrow morning.

Update: The rest of the pics are up, along with a few updated pics of the new house (in the New New House album). We spent (are spending) Christmas with Amanda’s parents. We had a super time going out to eat, gabbing, and opening all sorts of presents. I took pictueres (of course), and they are also going to be in the Christmas 2006 gallery. I’ll start the upload now, and let it finish overnight (oh 56k modem, how I love thee…).

Terms that should be mutually exclusive. Also, terms that should not both be appended to the name of a soft drink.

Frequently, I get surveys for points at mypoints. Today was one of the first times I actually qualified for said survey. The last round was for some Microsoft garbage, and due to my obvious bias, I didn’t answer the questions to qualify correctly. Anyway, the one I took today was for a Coke product that had no calories, but yet was an energy drink. I’m not sure how this works exactly. In fact, I’m pretty sure this wasn’t even a real product…yet. My favorite part was when they listed the pricing scheme:

20 oz. bottle: $1.29

2 liter bottle: $1.09

12-pack (12 oz. cans): $2.99

That’s amazing! You mean I can pay more, and receive approximately 40 ounces less? Neat! Rad! Awesome! The sad thing is, that’s pretty much the way things are, and there’s still no revolution. Revolution? Good grief, it’s only pop. Maybe sometimes I get too worked up over things… Nope, I don’t think so.

Well, last night I decided to spend some of my Christmas money, and I bought 10 ghost shrimp. I actually ended up with a freebie, since the lady dropped one on the floor. This morning one of them was dead, so that may have been the one. They’re cute little guys, so hopefully neither the mollies nor the frog will pester them too much. They’re pretty small too, so you’ll probably want to view the larger pictures.

If you look close, you can even see the heart (the little red blob behind the eyes).

A while ago, Amanda’s dad gave us a whole bunch of plants for our new office. Sadly, some of them have died, since the move was delayed for something like two months. However, we are now in our new office, and the plants will do better (that’s the plan, although some of them don’t seem to be on board with the plan). The office looks like this:

Here’s our orange tree that is blooming like crazy (not sure if 8 counts as crazy, unless you’re playing cards):

And the rest of the plants (some of them aren’t doing so great):