I am having issues with my frontpage corresponding on my laptop and my desktop and as I am now in the wonderful bastion of the home I am not going to try and fix it. Because odds are there would be one big scary looking mess left on my site. So instead I will send out a manual update and therefore you will get something that the rest of the world will not have access to.

Life has been pretty busy in the past few weeks.

I'd like to say that it was all spent shopping for christmas presents but I must tell you the truth, other than a couple of very important gifts that I bought last week and the week before, for all intents and purposes I only started shopping for presents on Friday. No really. Sounds kind of like a recipe for disaster doesn't it. I mean if you look at your clock this would mean that as I write this I started shopping for x-mas presents the day before yesterday. Only things worked out really well. I finished this morning at 10 a.m. hell, they are even all wrapped now. Now I will grant you that since I am mailing the presents to my brother, sister-in-law and niece tomorrow morning that they will likely not get them by christmas day but is that really all that important? I do believe that all that matters for the making of your christmas duties is a postmark before christmas.

Hmm. Or something.

So what did keep me busy then? Well I managed to spend more time that usual with my friends, which was a grand thing and then the rest of the time was spent making Christmas necklaces. I seem to have left it this year to the very end. So in the past week and a half I have made 9. that's a quite a bit, more than a few even.

But they have turned out nice and I hope that everyone getting them likes them.

What else has been going on in my life?

Well...how should I know?

So challenge phase 4 has completed. I promised a phase 5. and it will come soon in the new year. It will, I promise. The original intended one may have changed a little I think. coming out of phase 4 I am a lot more, ummm, what I would call woman minded? I am watching out for chances and relationships a lot more clearly than I was before. It's like my perceptions are tuned towards what it is going to take. No I grant you that I am not actually out there talking to people but still...

remember the woman that I talked to early in the challenge? (here -

http://www.perplections.com/challenge%20phase%204.htm at day twelve) I

managed to not see her from that day until this past week. Honestly, our paths did not cross. I spent the first week after I first talked to her, so stoked and ready to talk to her again that it was such a shame that I did not see her again. I guess our schedules just were not crossing. This past week I saw her one more time, only something very unfortunate happened, it ended up that I was sitting on the seabus with a friend who I don't see very often. And when she came in and sat down directly across from me (the talk to girl) I actually had my friends hands inside of mine. I am sure it looked like I was holding them but all I was doing was trying to warm them up for her. So the talk to girl reads her book. And I can't figure out a way to talk to her, not with my friend there. So...a slightly lost opportunity.

But bigger things are afoot. I am --> <-- this close to figuring out how to ask a woman out at work. I am almost as close to the same out decided that she may, in fact be interested in me in some way. Of course she might just like me as a friend. Of course she might be madly in love with me. One never really knows does one? I know, I know, I should just ask her out, or else how will I ever know? If I were more self effacing, or possibly even just prodded a bit, I would relate to you a story that illustrates how we are, or at least I am, kinda like a schoolchild.

What else. Oh yeah. I have joined two different personals thingies. One of them, Nerve.com isn't something I am seriously trying. It was just on a lark but it pointed me towards another more local personals site. I have an ad there and I am looking into things. I am not all the way in yet because I haven't spent the small amount of money that allows me to actually send messages. However, more than one, more than two, ok, four women have sent me messages saying they are interested in me. Now that is cool That is empowering.

In the very early new year I intend to pay my money and start chatting some people up. Something I should be infinitely more capable of online. And if you think about it that might be grand because then we don't have the same issues about trying to meet someone. And then I might meet them. And I might date. And who knows what might go from there How's that for positive thinking?

I am fond of it.

I am told that somehow it might fit itself into phase 5. in which case you will likely be able to read about it. How's that strike you?

Ok. This approaches length.

For the most part I am having an enjoyable holiday season and I hope you are as well. My family hasn't started to get me down yet. They might soon. Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows.

I'll likely tell you about it if they do.
Have a good christmas if you so celebrate, one and all.

If you don't, just have a good season, ok?

I am going to go away now.

Love you all.

Or some of you.
Or at least a portion of those of you thast I know.

A significant portion.
Maybe.

Spad.