ah, yes. christmas! it was so exciting, we got mom and iphone, and were so excited to see her face when she opened it. yet last night, as we were trying to give her this gift, dad brought out two other gifts and was trying to make us open them at the same time. annicka and i were sort of annoyed since we were trying to take pictures and watch the magic.. it turned out, they'd gotten us iphones too! so now we're just one big happy iphone family except that dad has a treo, which i think has been difficult to look at for the last couple of hours. but he has been consoled by the fact that there are rumours of a business model of iphone coming out. woo! his bday is january 12, and though i don't think it will be out by then, the mac convention does happen in january, i think! so maybe then it'll be unveiled.

in other apple news, i think annicka might be going to work at the apple store on michigan ave. in chicago, as a creative! coool!!! her friend works there and they are hiring, so i'm sure they'll snap her up. she's the best teacher of all things electric. patient, see!

well we are leaving for colorado on the 27th, to go to grandma's 80th bday. of course mom is organizing some crazy shit, for example, the other day a box of like 5,000 m&ms with the words "Happy Birthday Nancy!" inscribed on them arrived. AWESOME. also, it's a casino themed party. oooooh snap. i cannot wait.

i'm a little nervous about the drive, since we drove last yr to go skiing for a few days and let me say.. it was a trek. but i figure, i'll have my iphone to keep my occupied, right? i'll need to download some game apps i guess..

the night before christmas eve was fun too, dad wanted to go to nobu so that was very fun and delicious. the nobu here is in this absolutely insane complex in the center of the city, which looks like what can only be described as a victorian skyscraper. or maybe, not a skyscraped, but a mega-structure. it's this cream colored brick, trimmed with bizarre white molded iron decorations, and lit up at night with old school string lights, just naked bulbs. awesome. it's so horrible and wonderful. actually many find it horrible, but i really like it in this weird way. it looks great in texas, let's say. actually, here's a picture of it i took back in august.



and that's just the back end of the sucker. anyways, so that's where nobu is, and we went and had a really good dinner, though the service really sucked. i had lobster ceviche, crab with spicy sauce, and a shrimp role. we drank prosecco, since it was a very celebratory evening, annicka having just gotten home.



we also took some hilarious "jumping" pictures:




anyways it was a very fun night. now i am just sitting here, messing with my iphone. i love it! excited to return to school in january, especially now that they announced who the critics will be. it lends an air of.. newness or something. the term ended up fine, i feel pretty good about everything. i'm nervous about next term, when we'll now have two different structures classes - structures II and environments and enclosures. ohhh, boy. i'm also considering moving, because i feel really far away from the action for some reason. just isolated i guess? the thing is, i either need to move all the way downtown so i'm close to my slc friends, or back uptown to be closer to school. hmmm