NEW YEAR’S EVE!
The remainder of 2002 was a sirocco, blowing past me without mercy. Thanksgiving? I went to Disneyland, had to barter for the day after off. Christmas? Not so lucky. After a day of food with my sis & family it was back to the salaried grind.
2003 Resolution #1: Win the lottery so I can afford to sleep in.
Christmas this year was very nice, though. There were moments leading up to the big Day and I wish I’d written them all down. Here are a few that really stuck in my memory:
1) A man and his young daughter, walking to their car shortly after I pulled into the parking lot of an overcrowded mall. He pointed ‘over here’ and then proceeded to pull out of his space, blocking another car prepared to swoop into it.
2) Fresh orchids in the restroom @ Nordstrom’s. They didn’t smell like anything, but they sure were pretty.
3) Caroling with my pal’s Girl Scout Troup. I hadn’t been caroling since I was her age.
4) One of the Mom’s compliments about my ‘fine, strong, voice’ before I proceeded to lose it completely, thanks to a rousing refrain of Glo-o-o-o-ria’s during "Angel’s We Have Heard on High".
5) The relieved expressions on my cat’s faces after I got them flea-bathed. Whose cats get fleas right before winter? Mine do, obviously. For the first time ever and they’re 6 years old! I put a Rubbermaid laundry basket at the top of the stairs, filled it with a couple grocery store plastic bags and a colorful one from Old Navy and rocked Pepper’s world. Claudia remains content just to be a dollop on my sleeping torso.
6) Riding in my sister’s mini-van with her and 3 of her kids – 18, 15, and 3 -- to take a tour of the Christmas Lights in Rancho Cucamonga. Kudos to the house with the violet, almost neon, lights, offering hot chocolate to the tourists.
I haven’t done my cookie extravaganza for a few years now and I especially missed it this year. Too many hours at work, coupled with abating fleas meant no time for baking. Plus, every time I think about pulling out the mixing bowls and ingredients I think of my Mom’s words: "No offense. But I wouldn’t eat anything from your house. You’ve got cats."
Not ouch. Just something to remember. That even though I clean my kitchen thoroughly before I give into baking mania and I don’t allow my critters anywhere nearby... I guess it’s no different than my refusing any food offers from a woman at work who didn’t wash her hands after using the bathroom. You just don’t know and you can’t be too careful.
I’m to see "Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers" tomorrow, New Year’s Day. Willingly. I have to admit that I’m eating all my hatred for "Fellowship of the Rings" after seeing it again courtesy of cable. I will say that I enjoyed it a lot more on the smaller screen, probably because I couldn’t detect the blue screen work like I did in the theatre. "Drumline" is also on the schedule for sometime soon; everyone I know who’s seen it has given it a big thumb’s up.
Tonight is New Year’s Eve. The plans are to just chill out – uncork a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc, pop in a couple of DVD’s, and probably be asleep before 1AM. I’m getting over the flu and I don’t need to run myself down, especially not if I plan on sitting through a 3 hour and 10 minute movie in less than 24 hours. It sounds like my co-workers aren’t going to do too much more than that, themselves. Cautious or conservative, either way, war impends and that’s nothing worth celebrating.
The remainder of 2002 was a sirocco, blowing past me without mercy. Thanksgiving? I went to Disneyland, had to barter for the day after off. Christmas? Not so lucky. After a day of food with my sis & family it was back to the salaried grind.
2003 Resolution #1: Win the lottery so I can afford to sleep in.
Christmas this year was very nice, though. There were moments leading up to the big Day and I wish I’d written them all down. Here are a few that really stuck in my memory:
1) A man and his young daughter, walking to their car shortly after I pulled into the parking lot of an overcrowded mall. He pointed ‘over here’ and then proceeded to pull out of his space, blocking another car prepared to swoop into it.
2) Fresh orchids in the restroom @ Nordstrom’s. They didn’t smell like anything, but they sure were pretty.
3) Caroling with my pal’s Girl Scout Troup. I hadn’t been caroling since I was her age.
4) One of the Mom’s compliments about my ‘fine, strong, voice’ before I proceeded to lose it completely, thanks to a rousing refrain of Glo-o-o-o-ria’s during "Angel’s We Have Heard on High".
5) The relieved expressions on my cat’s faces after I got them flea-bathed. Whose cats get fleas right before winter? Mine do, obviously. For the first time ever and they’re 6 years old! I put a Rubbermaid laundry basket at the top of the stairs, filled it with a couple grocery store plastic bags and a colorful one from Old Navy and rocked Pepper’s world. Claudia remains content just to be a dollop on my sleeping torso.
6) Riding in my sister’s mini-van with her and 3 of her kids – 18, 15, and 3 -- to take a tour of the Christmas Lights in Rancho Cucamonga. Kudos to the house with the violet, almost neon, lights, offering hot chocolate to the tourists.
I haven’t done my cookie extravaganza for a few years now and I especially missed it this year. Too many hours at work, coupled with abating fleas meant no time for baking. Plus, every time I think about pulling out the mixing bowls and ingredients I think of my Mom’s words: "No offense. But I wouldn’t eat anything from your house. You’ve got cats."
Not ouch. Just something to remember. That even though I clean my kitchen thoroughly before I give into baking mania and I don’t allow my critters anywhere nearby... I guess it’s no different than my refusing any food offers from a woman at work who didn’t wash her hands after using the bathroom. You just don’t know and you can’t be too careful.
I’m to see "Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers" tomorrow, New Year’s Day. Willingly. I have to admit that I’m eating all my hatred for "Fellowship of the Rings" after seeing it again courtesy of cable. I will say that I enjoyed it a lot more on the smaller screen, probably because I couldn’t detect the blue screen work like I did in the theatre. "Drumline" is also on the schedule for sometime soon; everyone I know who’s seen it has given it a big thumb’s up.
Tonight is New Year’s Eve. The plans are to just chill out – uncork a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc, pop in a couple of DVD’s, and probably be asleep before 1AM. I’m getting over the flu and I don’t need to run myself down, especially not if I plan on sitting through a 3 hour and 10 minute movie in less than 24 hours. It sounds like my co-workers aren’t going to do too much more than that, themselves. Cautious or conservative, either way, war impends and that’s nothing worth celebrating.
posted by Evan at
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