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• 23:50 Happy christmas from thailand! Have a great day - i am off for a bit of snorkeling and cave swimming. #
• 13:04 Sat in a beach restaurant watching lady boys lip sink to popular thai songs. Brilliant. Happy christmas! #

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Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday.  Santa was very generous and got me a Coach Sabrina satchel this year. 

Yesterday was Pat's 22nd birthday.  It was a lot of fun, and by the end of the night, I was having WAAAAAAY too much fun. All I will say is that a.  I will probably never drink Crown ever again and b. I did shit last night that my family will taunt me about for all of eternity.

I'm very glad to be here at home, spending this Christmas with my family and closest friends. I hope that you all are just as blessed wherever you are.  <3

If you could kiss anyone under the mistletoe, who would it be?

 

Your mom.

• 10:58 On a long boat on final leg of journey - the sun is setting its lovely and warm, think i might enjoy this holiday xx #

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• 10:58 On a long boat on final leg of journey - the sun is setting its lovely and warm, think i might enjoy this holiday xx #

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I had to call my little friend from that post I made a couple of weeks ago, the guy at the governmental agency who speaks to me like I'm 5.  I called him again to ask a question because I couldn't get a hold of anyone else.  He briefly explained the process but since I've never done this before and want to get it right, I asked a clarification question.  "Weeeeeellll Jennifer," he said in a very condescending tone and UGH REALLY DUDE?  Am I wasting that much of your time by asking one question?

I don't get it. I'm trying to be nice and polite.  Maybe my voice is too high-pitched.  At work I keep a generally cheery and compliant air and only unleash the bitchy side when I need to...maybe I need to unleash that bitchy side MORE OFTEN.  If he keeps doing this when I have a question, I'm just gonna call him out on it.

I wonder if I will ever get to meet this guy in person.  He's probably one of those old-school engineers in his sixties.  If I do, I will make sure to give him one of my signature handshakes just so he knows I'm not some weak little girl. I shake hands like a man!

• 20:24 Have had a stiff drink and now feeling much more mellow about tomorrow. #
• 20:47 @Glinner I thought it was brilliant. Gripping from start to finish. #
• 20:48 @_faeriequeen Cool I'll be tapping you for tips of where to go and what to do nearer the time #
• 20:48 @annaleeb Thanks. At the moment I'm fighting with the notion that I'm mad but I've got 3 months to conquer that. #
• 09:19 Blimey, 20 mins from stepping off tube to departures was expecting queue hell. More time for shopping #
• 10:21 Nice man at dixons is charging my new nintendo dsi for me so i dont have to sit with it. And why arent there clothes shops for the norma ... #
• 11:57 Flight delayed but leaving soon. Has just started snowing - shame i will miss the chaos or not. Have a great christmas everyone who cele ... #
• 13:26 Spoke too soon, waiting for the plane to be de-iced. Still i love sitting in cattle class on a plane for as long as possible. Love it. #

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Mystery Couple Starts "Magical" Chain Reaction

It played like a scene from a holiday movie -- a mystery couple, who didn’t leave their names or numbers, walked into a restaurant, finished their meal and then set-off a chain reaction of generosity that lasted for hours.

That’s just what employees at the Aramingo Diner in Port Richmond said a man and a woman did during their breakfast shift last Saturday morning.

“It was magical. I had tears in my eyes because it never happened before. I’ve been here for 10 years and I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Lynn Willard, a waitress.

Willard and other waitresses told NBC Philadelphia that the couple started the chain reaction by paying double: for their own meal and for the tab of another table of diners at the restaurant. There's no evidence that one group of diners knew the others.

“I could not believe it … and it continued and continued, it was very nice,” said Willard. “They asked us not to say anything until they left, but we said ‘Merry Christmas, that person picked up your tab.’”

For the next five hours, dozens of patrons got into that same holiday spirit and paid the favor forward.

The diner’s manager said not one person was concerned about price of the check -- which averaged between $12-$30.

“It was a surprise to all of us, the girls were even taken aback,” said Linda. “Those who took the check also tipped the waitress. So nobody had to do anything other than pass it on and that’s what they did. They just passed it forward.”

It’s a true holiday story that proves how a small gesture of kindness can create some magic.

Que pasa? I am wide awake as usual. This is terrible.  I should be more mature about going to sleep but guess what? Hasn't happened yet.

Maybe with the start of 2010, I will mature into the Golden Age of Jenny, and be totally accomplished and responsible, and go to bed before midnight for fucking once.

I went for a good run yesterday with my running group. It helped cleared my jumbled thoughts a little, and the weather was fairly warm for December (even though it started getting so cold today). I hate running on the track but I managed to get 8 laps in.  My stomach hurt terribly after 6 of them, which always sucks.  But once the pain went away, I went back out and finished 2 more.  My stomach always hurts if I run too fast, so I don't know if I'm pushing it too hard or what. But how will I ever get faster if I don't run faster and just push aside the pain? I don't know. I'm a wuss.

I have a Gone With the Wind special taping on TCM and I keep looking up and seeing stills of Vivien Leigh.  She was sooo pretty. If I could choose to look like anyone, it'd be her. 

Tomorrow we have our company luncheon, and then on Friday there is another luncheon at my downtown office.  I'm gonna have to restrain myself from piling on the desserts, which is what I usually do during luncheons :) 

I don't know what else to say. 

Are any of my Voxy neighbors participating in Whiskerino? Two friends from Glasgow are doing it and while I can't grow a beard myself (not that I've really tried), it's fun to watch their daily progress. Plus, they're coming out to Nashville for the big finale and I'm *thinking* of taking a weekend trip! You know I love Voxy meetups, so let me know!

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