Happy New Year Part Two!!

next year i'm buying noisemakers and hats, because this year i felt that was the only thing really missing from our celebration. and no one sang "auld lang syne," but it was playing in my head so that's okay.

i didn't play texas hold 'em, but i did play chasing quarters. no money won, but i did have a massive headache the next day from mixing wine, beer, liquor and champagne. however, it wasn't near the worst hangover i have ever had, so i say, good times.

bender has a limp from chasing too many tennis balls thrown by abiding partygoers in the backyard. however, i think she thinks it was worth it, too.

and the weather! can i just say, as curmudgeonly as i usually am about untimely weather, i.e. sunny skies and birds chirping in january, when it should be bitter freezing and requiring the wear of a pea coat--it is now sunny and when i woke up the birds were chirping! how great is that. i think i get grumpier in the fall. because once it turns over to the new year, any untimely warmth then qualifies as spring-like, and i do love spring. it is the very best season.

also, the house is de-Christmas-fied, which is always a little sad, but then that's why it's so neato when it does come around again. it's like flowers, you know. the beauty lies in its transcience, yadda yadda.

and here i am at work, so wishing that the birds weren't singing now only because it makes me jealous of a former self, the one who got to go to classes and worked only part-time in a happier, more relevant environment, and at night went to classes, and during the day watched TV and wrote and went to the grocery store, which, let's be honest, is the best time to go. of course i was racking up mountains of loans then, but at this point i can't afford to pay them back, so what's the difference?

new year's resolutions
--work toward becoming independently wealthy, or at least work from home
--continue authorship of "chronicles" and other as-yet-undesignated projects
--send said projects to people who might like to publish them!! ideally for money, but if not that's okay, too
--be "discovered"
--mod-podge
--don't kill plants
--have less road rage when by myself in the car (already broken once, okay twice, on the way to work this morning
--don't make dumb resolution to be at work on time because that would be a second one i've already broken this morning, as forgot to set alarm.*

*however, it pleases penelope to note that no sense of panic was felt at being late. in fact, rather enjoyed fact of having extra sleep, and therefore an exceptionally pleasing end to an exceptionally pleasing weekend.