My Final Post for 2008

I woke up at about 8:00 am and headed downstairs. Quickly checking my e-mail, I grab a bit to eat and change, expecting to leave and preform errands with my dad who luckily has the rest of the week off. I unexpectedly waited until 10:00 chatting with friends on Facebook. As the time to go approached to leave and fulfill the items needed, my, brothers and I took White Tahoe. The first stop on the list was Costco. Costco was a thing me and my brothers loved to do, we enjoyed the Saturday samples and listing in on the fiance problems on Dave Ramsey's morning talk show. It was educational and fun listening people scream the traditional 'We're Debt FREEEEEE!' and giggling about their pitches and sometimes tone.
At Costco, the main purpose was to get items for Dad's dental office. We stocked up on the usual;
toilet paper, chips, paper towels, Diet Pepsi, Diet Dr. Pepper, Paper Cups and sometimes 12 packs of Gum. Costco is famous for its cheep food and when our dad was waiting in line to check out, he handed us a crisp $10 bill and told us to buy something at the food court. There where so many items to choose from
we finally decided on the Following:

Jakob Decided Upon a Slice of Cheese Pizza, huge, juicy, Cheesy are some of the many words to describe the Master Piece

A piece of Costco Pizza
(Not Jakobs)

Ian eventually decided Upon a churro, warm, chewy, sugary are some of the words to describe it.

Ian's Churro Looks Looked like This
(Still, it's Not Ian's Churro)
My choice was confusing, but I wanted one thing.
chocolate
I decided upon a Frozen Chocolate Yougart.

After the meham of Eating, we drove to my dad's Office. My Uncle was also there doing Office work when we arrived. Quickly we unloaded and then headed to Walmart to grab 30 one gallon jugs of distilled water. After we headed to Sunmart, got a Coke Icee and a Peperoni stick and headed back the the Office. At the Office we unloaded the water (From all the unloading, I gained some serious upper-body strength) and sat around for a while as my dad entered the Costco & Walmart Receipts into the Computer. During this time Ian and I talked about ideas for his web show and what items of business where to be done. Nothing really good came up, and we just headed home.
At home, I worked on the Season 2 intro for the new shows (coming next month!) and got some advertising (commenting on other peoples vidoes) done.

New Year's Eve
Also called	Hogmanay (Scotland), Silvester (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine), Réveillon (Brazil)
Observed by	People around the world
Type	International
Significance	The final day of the Gregorian year
Date	December 31, climaxing at midnight
Celebrations	Reflections, Late-Night Partying, Family- Gatherings, Feasting, Present Exchanges, Fireworks
Related to	New Year's Day and Christmas Day

New Year's Eve is on December 31, the final day of the Gregorian year, and the day before New Year's Day.

New Year's Eve is a separate observance from the observance of New Year's Day. In modern Western practice, New Year's Eve is celebrated with parties and social gatherings spanning the transition of the year at midnight.

Many cultures use fireworks and other forms of noise making in part of the celebration.

In the United States, New Year's Eve is a major social holiday. One of the top destination cities for New Year's Eve from 2003 to 2006 has been New York.^[3] Las Vegas is also attracting a large number of New Year's Eve party goers with the famous Las Vegas strip being closed to vehicles and buses.

In the past 100 years the "ball dropping" on top of One Times Square in New York City, broadcast to all of America (and rebroadcast in many other countries), is a major component of the New Year celebration. The 1,070-pound (490 kg), 12-foot (3.7 m) diameter Waterford crystal ball located high above Times Square is lowered, starting at 11:59:00pm and reaching the bottom of its tower 60 seconds later, at the stroke of midnight (12:00:00am). This is repeated for all four time zones in the continental US.^{[citation needed]} It is sometimes referred to as "the big apple" like the city itself; the custom derives from the time signal that used to be given at noon in harbors.

From 1981 to 1988, New York City dropped an enlarged apple in recognition of its nickname. From 1972 through 2006, Dick Clark hosted televised coverage of the event called Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, shown on ABC, and now renamed Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest for the arrival of 2009. From 1956 to 1976 on CBS, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians serenaded the United States from the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue in New York City. The Royal Canadians continued on CBS until 1978, and Happy New Year, America replaced it in 1979, continuing until 1995. The song Auld Lang Syne has become a popular song to sing at midnight on New Year's Eve.

New Year's Eve isn't a big deal for me. I do the same thing every year. Babysit two children; Ian and Jakob. I didn't know much about it either, I learned most of it from Rugrats (I learned about Hanukkah when I was 5 from it and was so excited to celebrate it). But when you think about it: "This is the last day of 2008 EVER". EVER. And then you think about it again: "This is the last _______ (Enter Date Here) EVER." EVER! My goal is to live life to the fullest, when an opportunity comes up, I try to take it. I think: "I might never have this chance again in my life, whould I regret it?"

An Example of this was in Hawaii:

It was the last day in Hawaii, the day that we where going to go shopping. We where driving around and my Parents decided about hiking Diamond Head. I was board and really wanted to stop and go shopping. At the base of the crater my parents gave my the option of staying with my grandparents at the base or hiking. I thought about it, and decided that I should go. I probally wasn't going to have a chance to go hiking up it again (this was my 2nd time from our trip a few years back) on this day. I would probally regret not hiking it.

I took that oppertunity, and boy I was right. It was hard, but at the top seeing the view, I would have been sad not to have gone. At the top we recived certificates saying that we hiked to the top. It was so fun.

Today I plan to watch the huge ball-thing fall on Times Square even though I wouldn't care less about it. I can see me regretting it later. So in 2009, my goal is to Live Life to The Fullest because there will never be a 1-1-2009 ever again.