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What Comes After 4?

Five Things:

1. I did some work for my dad this weekend and I now understand why they say you should never work with your family. Clients are hard enough to deal with, but when the client is your dad?! Holy crap.

2. I got a Best Buy gift certificate from my new boss and I bought a DVD player with it. I can't believe I bought myself something so big right before Christmas, but I like, totally deserve it. Crossroads special features, anyone?

3. I watched Amelie on my new DVD player last night. It makes me want to move to Paris, become a waitress, and find an eccentric boy with a scooter to fall in love with. It already made me go and have my bangs cut a little too short -- but they'll look better in a couple of days.

4. I got my claddagh rings back from Julie the Jeweler, who repaired their cracks and dents and shined them up so that I hardly recognize them. So why do I have two? When I was in Ireland in 1999, I bought one for me and one for my beau, who gave it back to me when we broke up in 2001. I understand why he gave it back, but at the same time, it's weird to have a gift like that returned. I can't exactly give it to someone new...and I certainly can't throw it away...and it's not like an engagement ring that I can return to a store...so I had it resized and now I have two identical rings. I can either take turns wearing each one, or I can wear them both and pretend like they have powers similar to Wonder Woman's wristcuffs. I did that this morning; it was pretty fun.

5. I'm wearing new pants. Pinstriped pants rule only slightly less than plaid ones.