yolen | Happy New Year! (Reply)

fings and I spent a few hours on New Year's Eve with my parents. We had some dinner and watched "Like Water for Chocolate", which my parents had never seen and they thoroughly enjoyed. My mother in particular appreciated that it was a Mexican film and my folks had fun pointing out the people who they recognized from the Mexican soap operas. My oldest sister and her 3 sons popped by a little while before we headed out for the night.

Later on we went to a party that an old college pal of fing's was having in Hoboken.

the_malum was there as well as

mitch37 and various other people, only one other who I knew in addition to the host. Everyone I didn't know was very friendly, it was nice to see the people I know, and the the booze was copious. I had a nice time, got trashed, laid a big ole kiss on my sweetie when the ball dropped and then felt supremely sentimental, nostalgic, wistful, regretful over some of the past and very hopeful for all of my future. We went to bed at about 4am.

New Year's Day, we woke up around 1pm and enjoyed being absolute bums! I tossed out the idea of heading off to a movie, but

fings was of the opinion that he'd want to go to the movies if the theatre were 2 blocks away. Alas. But that was fine, as I was basically of the same opinion! We played video games, watched stuff (yay, "Battlestar Galactica"! yay "Finding Neverland"!), read, ate and loafed. It was wonderful. Today was more of the same until I headed back home, except some cleaning was actually accomplished :).

Going back to work tomorrow is going to kick my ass a bit! But that's ok, I'll recover.

Life is good.

I read 61 books last year, I have to post my 2005 book list sometime this week.

I am not getting trashed again till my birthday rolls around. And even then, only a wee trashed ;).

Here's is fervently hoping that the new year brings good things to all.

I can't figure right now how to include the thumbnail of this photo in this post from the LJ Scrapbook Gallery, so phooey for now, here's the link:
http://pics.livejournal.com/yolen/pic/00001p4s/g1
That weird band across

fings' forehead is reflected light from the kitchen. The kitchen is shiny.