Growing up, my mom and dad would tell me how special I was. How I was one in a million. Fact of the matter is, there is not one speck of truth in that. Just take a quick search online and read the “about me” section on some personal blogs. I am a dime a dozen. The blogging community is filled with gamer mothers just like me, who love horror movies too much and have a soft spot for most things Japanese. I am not unique, far from it. I am just like everyone else. And that makes me sad. Don’t get me wrong. I never really thought that I was one in a million or that I could not be replaced. But there is some happiness, some feeling of giddy pride to be thought of as irreplaceable. And when you finally come to the realization that your parents completely lied about that, that I could be easily replaced by the many that are just like me. Well, it kinda sucks.

Ya know, I seriously considered jumping on the bandwagon and doing a recap of 2009 with a year in pictures but 2009 (just like 2008 and 2007) was not that good of a year for me and the few highlights I had during ’09 are not worth drudging up all the other crap. So I think I will just let 2009 slip away into the past without another thought. Hopefully 2010 will be a hell of a lot better then the past three years.

And I think, for the first time, I will be doing a video blog in the next few days.

Christmas has come and gone, like it does every year, and this year was pretty uneventful. I got a total of $170.

Raven had a wonderful Christmas as usual. My dad and step-mom got her a mini laptop, which she loves, in the the color she wanted – lime green. She got a butt load of anime and manga DVDs, books, games and various other items from me and Mike. We also got her the playstation 2 that she has been wanting. She now has four gaming systems in her bedroom. Yeah, we are geeks and dorks and are turning our daughter into one.