New Year In Style

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It's a new year. To welcome it, we had the loudest, noisiest, colorful new year's eve last night IN YEARS with all the firecrackers going off here crazily. The atmosphere was ablast and ablaze! Add to that was the constant and sometimes off-key Karaoke ensemble from our neighbors. And you have a perfect recipe for total hoot of meeting the new year.

We haven't experienced that in a long while so it was somehow new and fun and AWESOME! At least, that would have been the total effect had we (that would of course be me, my husband, Hiram, and my son, Pokemon) chosen to participate in all that revelries outside our house. But since we didn't feel the slightest social inclination then (and nobody made an invite so we were technically free) and (we're not proud of this) we had already eaten during dinner what little we had prepared as our new year's eve food (We didn't prepare much because Hiram and Pokemon weren't that big on eating and I was on a diet, as I forever am, so who would eat all the food. It would be such a waste.), we did what we usually do - retreated to our respective corners of the house. Hiram was in front of his computer, me in mine and Pokemon in his Nintendo DS.

So when midnight arrived, I didn't notice much of the BOOM and the BANG and the now and then off-key Karaoke singing, because - guess what - and in case you still haven't yet noticed, I changed the look of this site! Yay! Again. And. I know, I know. I don't have an excuse. But the last one didn't look right. Plus, I didn't exactly promise the last time. As I recall, I said I would hope. And hope can get me only far enough. And it got me to this new look. Pretty, isn't it?

I wasn't even able to write my little story about the predicament Hiram and I found ourselves on the day before Christmas. Which, I promise myself, I would do soon.

So while everybody was having a fun time outside, and under all the rain, I might add, because it rained all day yesterday and apparently, nobody would let even the most heavy downpour of rain keep them from engaging in their yearly ritual of lighting those firecrackers, and even if it would mean having to do it in style with their umbrellas in one hand. Frankly, I didn't know how they managed to do that, but let me tell you that it was such an amusing sight. And managed they did because firecrackers and fireworks were shooting left and right!

Anyway. Where was I? Oh, yes, while everybody was having fun outside, I was busily renovating this site. And rushing all through it as fast as I could because I didn't want the new year to catch me still endlessly choosing a look for this site. Because where I live now, there is this belief that whatever you do on New Years eve, you'll end up doing for the rest of the year. Not exactly logical. But still. So, knock on the wood, I don't want to spend the year ahead renovating this site, because as I'm mainly here to write, I'd like to do some of that writing too.

I sincerely hope, however, that this look would be it. Because it's such time-consuming and frustrating to endlessly tinker on a website. I would have added that to my list of New Year's resolutions, but I don't do New Year's resolutions. I have a gut feeling, though, that this is for keeps. Still another hope (sigh).

So that's pretty much how I spent my New Year's eve. Not eating, drinking, smooching, singing Karaoke, or lighting and watching firecrackers or fireworks; but, in front of a computer. Pretty boring, eh? Probably. But at least, you're eyes are now feasting upon a nice website :).

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