dudie new year!!!

(don't know when i'll post again, so happy holidays people! to all my friends and family - i love you all very much!)

today is the last day of work for me until monday, january 3rd, 2005. woohoo!

the next several days will be spent snowboarding, snowshoeing (or some combination of the two), guitar-playing, and of course getting ready for our big road trip back to champaign late next week. we'll be visiting jenn's awesome grandma, and jenn will be getting all kinds of kick-ass knitting tips from her, because that woman can knit. she also has these little tags she sews onto everything she makes that say "handmade with love by grandma helen" or something like that. she's awesome.

in addition to spending time with jenn's grandma, we will get to see all the dudies for the annual dudie new year! sweeeeet! dudies in attendance include: timmy dudie (all the way from deutschland) and his german contingent, p-diddy dudie (but only for one night), liz dudie, willie dudie (me), jenn dudie, christine dudie, craig dudie, and robbie dudie (hopefully in his usual fine form). other dudies we hope to see, but remain questionable at this point: dres dudie, mista overman dudie, and the ever elusive, grand dudie founder himself: e-dudie. that is, of course, if he can tear himself away from his clubbing, record spinning, and history of house music manuscript. but i'm not bitter. i just miss the guy. after all, he did come up with the dudie motto, a brilliant stroke of ukrainian genius, applicable to men and women dudies alike:

"may our dicks be hard
let us have money"

words to live by, people. words to live by.