What 2012 taught me.

So, the year is over and it's time to assess what I've learned in the last twelve months. So, here goes:
  
I learned...

1. Law school is boring, even when you're not actually in law school. (My wife has super-powers and cannot be bored to death, no matter how terrible the subject matter or reading material might be.)

2. Some people like to fight with the windows open. (I do mean fight.)

3. You don't get used to bad water, it just continues tasting like gross.

4. Our dog will eat just about anything. (I think this year it was the Disney trading pin that most surprised me.)

5. Canned alfredo sauce is a great laxative.

6. Traffic is traffic, don't let people tell you it's worse somewhere else. It always sucks to be stuck behind someone else when you just want to go home.

7. If you only make it to church once in a while, they don't ask you to do much. (It pays to be the new guy.)

8. Korean rap exists. (Now my sisters both have new career options.)

9. My cousin Paul is older than I thought.

10. Christmas isn't the same when my mom isn't around to light something on fire. (I know mom, it only happened once, but in this family that's all it takes.)

11. The Giants are great at looking mediocre through 162 games before winning World Series Championships in great style.

12. If you write a blog and pester people for long enough, you'll earn about $6.00 a month doing it. (That's about 10 cents an hour. So check out www.didyouseethatone.com)

13. Lance Armstrong was doping.... (Not as shocking of a revelation as you might think.)

14. You can win an election despite failing to accomplish anything you promised to do the first time you were elected. (Thanks a lot, Steven Foster of La Habra High School.)

15.  Hollywood isn't quite as glamorous as advertised. (They do some of the cleaner homeless people though.)

Our SoCal Christmas

So here we are in Fullerton for our second annual Law School Christmas. Genna is now officially done with half of law school. (For those of you keeping track, this means I'm about 3 semesters from retirement.)

We've had a good fall and winter so far. Genna's family came down for Thanksgiving, and we had a great dinner. We were also joined by our good friend Brandon. Soon after that we had my family in town and spent some time with them for a few days. It was good to see the kids and have an awesome dinner at Goofy's Kitchen inside the Disneyland Hotel.


Genna has actually worked really hard and done really well this semester. Of course, she's not going to know that for sure until grades come back, but I think she did an awesome job. She even managed to handle a last-minute rescheduling issue due to the criminals that created some buzz when they tried to run from the cops onto the Fullerton Campus where Genna's school shares some space. Here's a quick video if you hadn't heard. http://youtu.be/3a6Z_Nsy214


I've been pretty productive as well. My website continues to grow more than I ever imagined. I'm currently celebrating a new milestone as my blog has reached 70,000 views. It's been a fun hobby to have in between shifts at work. I've gotten to share my love of films with a lot of people, and that's pretty cool. I'm also hoping to gain some new opportunities with the site as it moves forward.


So back to Christmas and how we're celebrating. Well, in the morning I'll be celebrating with my fellow Cast Members at Disneyland as well as thousands of random people who decided that Christmas is just better at the Happiest Place on Earth. Hopefully I'll be able to get up early enough to do presents before work. I'm also working on Christmas Eve so it'll be a busy couple of days. Christmas evening we'll head over to a family dinner with the Redds, it'll be a great way to finish the day. We're lucky that Genna has such awesome relatives here in our area.

Well, the new year approaches. I hope that we can continue to share our good experiences with all of you.

We hope this season is wonderful for all of you. We miss our friends and family, but we're still enjoying the adventure that is Southern California.

Merry Christmas!