At the turning of the year

[artyartie]

Happy New Year, as nearly as belated as this is - hope you all had a wonderful night and celebrated in fine fashion - I babysat for my nephew last night, which was quiet but fun. We played hockey with a soccer ball, colored, ate peanut butter chocolate ice cream (mmmmmmm!), and then instead of working on my essays before bed, I played Guitar Hero III for a few hours. That game is ridiculously addictive!

This morning I watched the Tournament of Roses parade, which I hadn't done in years. My sister's HD big screen TV probably had a lot to do with that - you could see every single leaf and seed, honestly. Some beautiful and intricate floats, huge bands, and the return of the Sesame Street float, which always makes me smile, as an old-school Street fan (no Elmo for me, thanks). We went to my mom's friends for dinner and alas more football (though did anyone else catch the Winter Classic hockey game! Absolutely brilliant idea), but the turkey was yummy, and I made some good cranberry sauce with apples and pecans.

I think my resolution this year should read something like this - "try and drop at least one or two bad habits for good." The ones that make me wonder this time each year why I'm still doing them. But for this year, I think 'Drastic Fantastic' is my soundtrack - I was nodding along with most of the album on the flight home, but this lyric from 'Hopeless' caught my ear especially:

"Like a little spider, I'm climbing the insurmountable."

So good luck in 2008, fellow little spiders!

Comments

[aoife-hime.livejournal.com]

Good album. Very good album. Good luck to you as well with this coming year!

[esteven]

To you too.:D May your climb be easy.

[jhd91.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* I watched the Winter Classic! Fantastic, even if the actual game itself was meh. The last time the NHL did this was 5 years ago, up in Edmonton for an Oilers-Canadiens game. I hope they do it more, but not so much more that it spoils the novelty.

[spacemonkey-27.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year to you too! I'm glad you had fun. Good luck with everything this year.

[mayara13.livejournal.com]

This is basically the first time I've really had internet access since before Christmas, due to the whole parents only having dial-up and the annoyance of having to wait for that for anything that isn't particularly important. So, happy new year. We shall have to chat sometime, as it has been too long, and I want to do better at that whole keeping in touch thing this year!