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Happy Christmas Eve, all!

I'm currently sitting at my desk, pretending to work, and ignoring the fact that the kitchen and the rest of the house needs to be cleaned before my brother-in-law gets here and we bust out the Chinese food and the best Christmas movie ever: A Muppet Family Christmas

It occurred to me that I didn't make a proper Christmas list this year. Because I am plum out of money, I find it ridiculous to expect other people to buy me things. I mean, I've had to throw some stuff out there as I'd otherwise be badgered with the, "JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU FUCKING WANT FOR CHRISTMAS!!!" questions being shouted at me by angry family members who are clearly standing in the middle of a mall and have no fucking clue what to get me.

But what do I really want?

Here is my ridiculous list:

DC Comic Covergirls

A big-ass, geeky, girl-powered coffee book table. Fucking. Awesome.

Some days I really love the Internet

Today is one of those days when I'd just love to hug the Internet.

Not the entire thing, but just my little network of people that I talk to and @ most of the day.

A lot of this happens on Twitter. Some of it happens here in my blog comments. It happens on comments on my Facebook status or on my wall.

For every bad day I have with the Internet, it simply takes one good day to erase practically all memory of me wanting to bang my head against the keyboards and then throw my precious Samsung out the fucking window.

Today on Twitter, between my friends Vikki, Iain and Lewis, and a bunch of other fabulous people, we managed to get a ridiculous amount of people to change their Twitter avatars to a photo of themselves when they were younger.

My entire Twitter feed was made up of mostly bucked-tooth, long haired, cheeky-grinned kids. And it was brilliant. And we all had a good laugh about it and made sure to tag all of our tweets with #mewhensmall and it became one of the number one trends on Twitter today.

Shit like that makes me warm and fuzzy inside.

I'm totally Scrooge like. I bitch a lot. But at the end of the day, I do love the Internet.

There. I said it.

I hate to say it, but...bah-fucking-humbug

It's a handful of days until Christmas and, to be honest, I wish it would just hurry up and be done with.

We're spending Christmas with Iain's grandparents, just the four of us in total, and I'm really looking forward to it. I suppose the only thing I'm really hoping for is that we can swindle them into watching the Christmas Doctor Who special.

It would be nice to see all of my family in the UK, as well as my family in the US, but that just hasn't worked out for whatever reason this year.

So, what have I been up to?

In the past couple weeks I...

- Went to Le Web in Paris, where I stayed in a hotel without any WiFi, and then spent the conference freezing my ass off with limited internet connection.

- Due to the freezing cold and to being around my lovely, sick husband the day before, I came down with a fever half way through day one of the conference. By day two, I was absolutley dying, (along with the internet in the venue) and ended up absolutely hating every minute spent in freezing ass cold Paris. The Eurostar when you've got a fever isn't much fun either.

Pownced Upon.

Apparently the folks from Pownce have made their way over to Six Apart...and Vox?

According to the fabulous Susan Mernit:

News today that SixApart, the blogging/CMS/publishing tools company that powers this blog, has acquired Pownce, the twitter-like microblogging service run by Leah Culver and others and launched almost a year ago...

As with Rael Dornfest, this is clearly a talent and tools acquisition, but with this acquisition comes the "advisory services" of Digg's Kevin Rose and Dan Burka. In his acquisition.welcome post, CEO Chris Alden notes his plans to marry Vox and Pownce; you can see the vox blogs of Leah and Mike Malone have been up for 5 whole seconds. Community manager Ariel Waldman also has a brand spankin new Vox blog, so I'd say that signals intent to bring some of the Pownce cool kids sass into the now snooz-ier than planned Vox brand.

Question: Does this mean that VOX will finally be getting some love? Does this mean it will be compatible with Firefox 3?

I'm excited and nervous all at once.

I <3 Paris

You may have noticed that I didn't exactly stick to my whole NaBloPoMo thing...and I couldn't care less.

I took on way too much stuff last month, and I just happy that November is done and dusted. I didn't exactly do NaBloPoMo so I could WIN or anything...I just wanted to get back into a groove. And I think that I, for the most part, did. It felt nice to have a busy blog again.

Part of me wishes I had stuck to it...but I just know how I felt after being awake from 3:30am until 11:30pm with only a few hours to nap on the Eurostar last Wednesday night, and I just couldn't get myself out of bed.

What this has made me figure out, however, is that I need to find better, easier ways for me to blog. Whether it be from my phone, or smoke signal.

Much to catch up on, but I just want to start this month off on a positive note. Last Wednesday, Iain made it possible for me to catch the Eurostar with Liz down to Paris for a day.