Happy New Year...
It's funny, I always feel a little sad when the ball drops. It's a new year...who knows what it will bring? I told my brother about this once and he said dubiously, "I never really saw it that way." We usually go out for New Year and then come back to see the ball drop on TV (never mind that it's pretty close!) and when everyone else jumps up and cheers, I have this moment of introspection.
It was a fun night, though. TW, sadly, was not able to come...she emailed to accept at first, then to decline because she was staying in NJ with her sore throat...I didn't get her decline email until later. She is teaching her first yoga class on the 2nd, and I am definitely going to that! (My first class is on the 12th.)
Lobo commented that it was a subdued New Year. It's true, last year we walked back from the same restaurant and people yelled, "Happy New Year!" from cars and a bar was playing, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" at top volume. I didn't mind, though. It was more mature ;)
We had a Thai dinner with some friends (S wore a puffy, Asian-new-year-style snake around his neck!), then went to the bubble tea place that used to be called Saint's Alp. Yes, it was oddly punctuated ;) Now it's called Teariffic. I had some kind of orange juice/passionfruit/curacao drink (or some other blue stuff at the bottom) and shared a "mung bean shake" with AT. The mung bean shake was curiously good...kind of a cross between split pea soup and a drink. AT said it was like drinking breakfast cereal.
We took the subway home and the conductor tried to shut the door on AT! AT felt it was because of his singing. Later, the conductor tried to shut the door on me, but D held the doors open and I was able to get out. Awww....
We watched a bit of Dick Clark's "Rockin'" New Year's Eve, just to see the ball drop. My SIL strenuously objected to Mariah Carey's dress. "I would never wear that dress," she said, "especially if I had a body like that." I thought she looked slutty, but that is the status quo, no? It wouldn't seem quite right otherwise. Then Hillary Duff came on, I became violently ill and we turned off the TV.
Also, did everyone notice that the 2006 sign looked like 2004 on TV? Lobo said we were going back. I wouldn't want to do that. 2004 was not one of my best years. I feel like things are going in the right direction now, although I will be psyched when I get a permanent yoga gig.
It was a fun night, though. TW, sadly, was not able to come...she emailed to accept at first, then to decline because she was staying in NJ with her sore throat...I didn't get her decline email until later. She is teaching her first yoga class on the 2nd, and I am definitely going to that! (My first class is on the 12th.)
Lobo commented that it was a subdued New Year. It's true, last year we walked back from the same restaurant and people yelled, "Happy New Year!" from cars and a bar was playing, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" at top volume. I didn't mind, though. It was more mature ;)
We had a Thai dinner with some friends (S wore a puffy, Asian-new-year-style snake around his neck!), then went to the bubble tea place that used to be called Saint's Alp. Yes, it was oddly punctuated ;) Now it's called Teariffic. I had some kind of orange juice/passionfruit/curacao drink (or some other blue stuff at the bottom) and shared a "mung bean shake" with AT. The mung bean shake was curiously good...kind of a cross between split pea soup and a drink. AT said it was like drinking breakfast cereal.
We took the subway home and the conductor tried to shut the door on AT! AT felt it was because of his singing. Later, the conductor tried to shut the door on me, but D held the doors open and I was able to get out. Awww....
We watched a bit of Dick Clark's "Rockin'" New Year's Eve, just to see the ball drop. My SIL strenuously objected to Mariah Carey's dress. "I would never wear that dress," she said, "especially if I had a body like that." I thought she looked slutty, but that is the status quo, no? It wouldn't seem quite right otherwise. Then Hillary Duff came on, I became violently ill and we turned off the TV.
Also, did everyone notice that the 2006 sign looked like 2004 on TV? Lobo said we were going back. I wouldn't want to do that. 2004 was not one of my best years. I feel like things are going in the right direction now, although I will be psyched when I get a permanent yoga gig.
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We watched the Dick Clark countdown also and agree that Mariah looked AWFUL. What was the point of her even being on there? My bf was grossed out, she did not need to wear that dress. And poor Dick Clark, he sounded like he was 200 years old. I barely made it to midnight - falling asleep at like 10 :) Got my 12 grapes in, champagne toast, and off to bed!
And I always recommend the seedless ones. Much easier. Funny, when I was in MX last week they were advertising them ready to go in little cans - seedless, skinless, and ready to go - all 12.
L - Glad I wasn't the only one.
Also agreed about Mariah Carey's dress. Wasn't she being the biggest diva? It kinda made me giggle.
T - Interesting. I feel like I'm moving forward, but in a yogic way - maybe that fits in with the zen part.
Yeah, I usually feel sad, but not this year. 2005 was tough for us. 2006 will be must better. Kind of a relief for that year to end.
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