upsetting news, folks

i am upset. my absolute favorite show, pushing daisies, has been cancelled. wtf, abc? a show is original and wonderfully heartwarming, with witty lines and exciting, plot-thickening stories, and you go off and cancel it? there's still so much story to tell! will chuck ever get to see her aunts again? will emerson ever find his li'l gumshoe? will olive find the love she so desperately craves? will ned and chuck ever be able to touch again? sigh. the only good thing is that the creator, bryan fuller, has decided to work with dc comics to finish out the story in comic book form. so at least there's that...but still. i am saddened. it's like my wednesday night companion has died.

i have a rare slow moment at work right now (as evidenced by the fact that i haven't blogged in AGES). it seems that all i do nowadays is work...9 hours a day has become my minimum. sure, the pay is great, but with it being winter and all, i barely get to see the sun anymore. i think that this has jolted my senses and i am suffering a touch of seasonal affective disorder. i am considering outting a sunlamp over my desk to ease these early winter blues. or i may move to florida. the old folks seem to be pretty happy there, so maybe i should give it a try.

the holidays are nigh. i have lots of trouble around this time of year in trying o figure out what to get for my family. my sister and mom are the worst. it's always so difficult to tell what they'll like, so i end up getting something that i hope they like and keeping the receipt, just in case. and i like to get meaningful gifts. i'm thinking that i could get either a spa package or a plane ticket to somewhere warm for my sister, and possibly some new clothes (which she'll probably return) or a massage for my mom. my brother keeps saying that he wants a ticket to greece, which brings up another issue -

should i go to greece this summer? if i go, it will be for a while. i don't want to go for just two weeks and then head back to the states...where's the vacation in that? i'd love to go for at least a month. and lots of my extended family is going, so it would be fun. but there's no job that would let me take that much time off work, so i'd probably need to be unemployed if i were to go. my boyfriend is probably not going to poland and he says that he would love to come over for a few weeks, so that would be fun...plus this is probably my last opportunity to go for quite a few years. i really really want to go, but do i want to spend all of my money on one trip? i've got some tough choices here. (but not that tough because, let's be honest, it's greece. NOT going would be the stupid decision.)