Malled and beaten

Kicked off the morning at work by watching a little "Live with Regis and Kelly" to catch my "Survivor" favorite, Brandon Quinton, talk about his experiences on the big safari. He really cleaned up well...Such nice pretty blue eyes...He gave a very good interview. He was very funny, but acted like such the southern belle. :-) I've asked Santa to get me Brandon for Christmas. But unfortunately, I have no chimney, so I have no clue how he's going to get me the present. Waaaaaahhhhhh....

Took a little longer lunch break than usual today to finish up some Christmas shopping. I am officially finished up with shopping for the family. I also picked out a gift for my boss...a nice little thank you gift for giving this runty little doofus a shot at making his dream come true...doing it our way...give us any chance we'll take it...give us any rule we'll break it...Whoops! Sorry...had a little Laverne and Shirley moment there...

This evening, we had a visit from an old Internet friend of mine, Matt. Matt was somebody I met through gay.com a while. And when I say, "a while back," I'm talking the tall, dark gray apartment in NoHo days. We've always bounced IMs back and forth and the last time I actually saw him in person was over the summer. He lives not too far from me and he often visits close friends of his across the street, so we figured this visit was LONG overdue! It was a fun night involving pizza, the new Moulin Rouge DVD, and UNO! Attack, one of the gifts I got Larry. It's basically UNO!, but with this evil machine that spits cards at you. Actually, it was quite a lot of fun, and in true Mandel style, I was sooooo close to winning but yet so far. I also realized that I suck at shuffling cards...you'd think I would have learned something from all my work with "Card Sharks!"