January 2, 2012

• A New Year Blows In

  Saturday I woke up not entirely sure what I was doing for New Year's Eve. I had an idea though, and it was what I wound up doing, going over to a friend's house for a New Year's Eve party. The last time I was there for NYE was two years ago and to be honest, I did not have a very good time. But, this year was much different, we had more people and more to do, the combination of which is always better.

  The night started off fairly well, we were all just hanging out and talking. I showed everybody pictures of last New Year's Eve in Times Square. We also played darts on an old metal tip manual dart board. For some reason, I always find these darts much easier then the electronic darts. It showed; I did very well the first couple of games. Shortly before midnight, we wound up playing a game that involved having your hands tied together with another person's hands. You had to get unconnected from each other without untying the knot or cutting the twine. As you  might expect, this was kind of difficult, but the girl I was partners with had played years before and eventually remembered how to get undone. Eventually everybody else got untied without 10 minutes to spare before midnight.

  Midnight came and with it was another year, ending what was the best year of my life and starting a new one with all new potentials and possibilities. The year ended much more different for me than when it started, but it was still pretty cool. We hung out until about 4 in the A.M. at which time most of us went home.

  Even though it was fairly late, I still wasn't tired. I didn't actually fall asleep until well after 5 and for some stupid and annoying fucking reason, I woke up at 10 and could not fall back asleep. I got up and exercised and put on some coffee to drink after breakfast. I don't know what part of the country you are in, but it was windy as hell yesterday (and even still now) with wind gusts upwards of 55 miles an hour. This was no doubt the reason why the power went out as I ate my Cocco Puffs while the coffee brewed. This left me with not all the coffee made and luke warm coffee by the time I drank it.

  We were supposed to go to my brother's house at about three o'clock and we left at 2:30 with the power still not back on. By the time we got home at one in the morning, the power was back on but the furnace was not working. This was a problem because with the high winds came low temps, in fact the overnight low was 16. By the time we got home it was only about 50 degrees in the house. I tried starting the furnace but had no luck. Fortunately though I still have heated waterbed in my old bedroom which not only is great to sleep in when cold but also manages to heat the whole room. By the time I woke up this morning I was nice and toasty and very reluctant to get out of bed. Although today is kind of a holiday we were still able to get somebody out here to fix the furnace and I'm happy to say I am cold no more.

  Happy new year everybody, I hope your 2012 will be as great as my 2011.

  • 2:42 pm
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