Feeling good
Jan. 1st, 2005 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitanziMay your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't to forget make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
-Neil Gaiman
I like that a lot, so I'm borrowing it.
Last night was the annual New Years Eve party thrown by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bedlamhouse andladyat at Bedlam House. ACat and I got to have much fun with many folks including khaosworks and surrdave and hand over some belated gifts. It got moderately drunk out, but if there was ever a good place for that, Bedlam House is it. We'd spotted a copy of The Weekly World News when we were shopping earlier, and had to grab it and bring it along if only for the Miss Cosmos 2005 Beauty Pageant - ten or so "out of this world beauties" where someone had a whole lot of fun with photoshop to create extra terrestrial beauty queens. I'm afraid it got left behind, but these days at least this is pretty much the equivilent of The Onion - taking this paper seriously would be just about impossible. I seem to remember we brought along a copy last year, too, but I don't remember what the hook was then.
There was all the usual amusing conversation, good food, excellent drinks, Song of the Year (which was actually a clip from a one man show of the Star Wars Trilogy rather than music this year) and the midnight parade. They've been doing this for years, and by now the neighbors don't only refrain from calling the cops when we troop by with our banging pots and pans and drums and noisemakers (and for Surrdave, a bugle!) but they flash their house lights! In fact, this year, we even met another noisy parade going the other way! That's always fun, and useful for a little sobering up. I didn't see who was actually settled on to be the First Footer (apparently, for luck, you should have a tall, dark haired stranger be the first person to step into your house in the new year, or as close to as you can manage) but it was all fun, and the fireworks were very pretty, and I don't believe anyone got hurt. In all, a good way to start a new year! We got home about 1:30 or so (I think) and I sort of collapsed sideways into bed. I'm just no good at night owling, I'm afraid. Now ACat's sleeping in, I'm feeling good, and all's well here in Alpharetta!
Resolutions for the year:
1) Fight myself less
2) Take on more challenges
3) Learn better control of my tongue when I'm angry or stressed out
To do this weekend: Donate to one of the tsunami relief funds (does anyone have any idea which one gets the best percentage of donations actually *TO* the people it's being collected in the name of?), get a haircut, clean house properly, maybe go to the Breman Museum tomorrow to see the superhero exhibit.
Things I treasure from 2004: Marrying ACat, falling in love withmaedbh7, the moment when nrivkis told me that our friends were actually sending us to ENGLAND for a honeymoon!
-Neil Gaiman
I like that a lot, so I'm borrowing it.
Last night was the annual New Years Eve party thrown by
bedlamhouse andladyat at Bedlam House. ACat and I got to have much fun with many folks including khaosworks and surrdave and hand over some belated gifts. It got moderately drunk out, but if there was ever a good place for that, Bedlam House is it. We'd spotted a copy of The Weekly World News when we were shopping earlier, and had to grab it and bring it along if only for the Miss Cosmos 2005 Beauty Pageant - ten or so "out of this world beauties" where someone had a whole lot of fun with photoshop to create extra terrestrial beauty queens. I'm afraid it got left behind, but these days at least this is pretty much the equivilent of The Onion - taking this paper seriously would be just about impossible. I seem to remember we brought along a copy last year, too, but I don't remember what the hook was then.There was all the usual amusing conversation, good food, excellent drinks, Song of the Year (which was actually a clip from a one man show of the Star Wars Trilogy rather than music this year) and the midnight parade. They've been doing this for years, and by now the neighbors don't only refrain from calling the cops when we troop by with our banging pots and pans and drums and noisemakers (and for Surrdave, a bugle!) but they flash their house lights! In fact, this year, we even met another noisy parade going the other way! That's always fun, and useful for a little sobering up. I didn't see who was actually settled on to be the First Footer (apparently, for luck, you should have a tall, dark haired stranger be the first person to step into your house in the new year, or as close to as you can manage) but it was all fun, and the fireworks were very pretty, and I don't believe anyone got hurt. In all, a good way to start a new year! We got home about 1:30 or so (I think) and I sort of collapsed sideways into bed. I'm just no good at night owling, I'm afraid. Now ACat's sleeping in, I'm feeling good, and all's well here in Alpharetta!
Resolutions for the year:
1) Fight myself less
2) Take on more challenges
3) Learn better control of my tongue when I'm angry or stressed out
To do this weekend: Donate to one of the tsunami relief funds (does anyone have any idea which one gets the best percentage of donations actually *TO* the people it's being collected in the name of?), get a haircut, clean house properly, maybe go to the Breman Museum tomorrow to see the superhero exhibit.
Things I treasure from 2004: Marrying ACat, falling in love with
maedbh7, the moment when nrivkis told me that our friends were actually sending us to ENGLAND for a honeymoon!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-01-01 09:04 am (UTC)Happy new year!
no subject
Date: 2005-01-01 09:34 am (UTC)*big hugs!*
no subject
Date: 2005-01-01 10:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-03 12:53 pm (UTC)Love the quote, it was just what I needed. Thanks!
{{HUGS}}