January 1, 2007
The first New Year's I remember celebrating was at the end of 1986, which means I'd just turned five. I was really sad about the idea that it would never be 1986 again. I must have been the kind of kid who was really sad to see things end, because I also cried on the last day of kindergarten, because I'd really miss it, and things wouldn't be the same anymore.
No tears this year, though! I'm ringing in 2007 with some wine and some taco bell (classy!), ready to move on to new adventures. Look, I even restarted the journal in this format! How's that for a new beginning?
So, how does this NYE compare to last? Excellent question! I wondered that myself, so I checked the journal archives, and of course, I didn't post until Jan 9 last year, and it mentioned nothing of my NYE shenanigans. It did, however, list some of the great search phrases that brought people to my site the month before!
Let's run through a few favorites of the search phrases that brought people to my site in December 2005 , shall we?
-taco bell sauce packets
-Sean Astin speedo (eep!)
-sammich
-freshly caught fairy brownie
-ok spike
-evil Christmas tree
-monkey bunny fight
-cool doll dayings
-ideas to create a tasmanian devil costume
Let's compare that list to some favorite search strings from December 2006:
- Mud kids
- 2 headed animals (always seems to be popular)
- Monkey looking at camera
- Disney World comet recipes (Okay, y'all, I am totally joking when
I make those refrences to "drinking the Disney Kool-aid", we Disney
dorks do not have an actual cult with plans to kill ourselves in
correspondence to some mouse-shaped comet! Yeesh!)
- Matrix statues (that's actually a pretty cool idea.)
- Naked mole rats (I'll have new photos of those in just a few
weeks!)
- How to make homemade chess pizza (I'm guessing they meant
"cheese", but chess pizza would be pretty awesome! "Pepperoni
to E5!")
- Sonofabitch soup (This has me very curious. I kinda wanna
google it now!)
- Erotic horseback riding naked (Okay people, let's discuss.
There are times when being naked is good and sexy, but on the back
of a horse is not one of them. There are some places that you
really just don't want fur to go. I do not speak from naked
riding experience, but coming from over two decades on horseback,
let me please advise you against this! OUCH!)
I'm not quite sure which list is better, really, but I lean towards this year's.
To go with my decision to move the journal back over here, instead of the blogger format, I also plan to restart my reading and movie lists, to keep track of the media I consume this year, and to ramble on about it. Hooray!
My day today was pretty random. I fell asleep somewhere around 1am last night, but then I woke up at 6am and couldn't get back to sleep! I got up, burned a CD my sister wanted, and eventually got back to sleep around 11am, and slept till almost 5pm!
As you probably know, last night/the 31st/whatever was my last night of work for the year! I am now unemployed until mid-March, when the hotel reopens. Oh, the joy! I am so, so very ready for this break! There's something about the end of the year that makes the hotel guests even harder to put up with than usual.
For instance, if you went to check in at a hotel, and they handed you a
paper to fill out, and on the first line was your name, and the second line
said Guest Address, would you have to ask what you're supposed to write
there? They ask! ALL the time! My favorite are the people
who sign in the address line, and hand the paper back to me. Yeesh!
But who cares? I am free of them now! For 10 weeks! Whee!
The other really great thing is that I go on vacation in ONE week!
I am once again off to visit the House of Mouse (aka Disney World).
Katie and I are already working up a fabulous list of things to do, such as
drinking things out of pineapples, wearing tiaras, and kidnapping pirates.
Avast! It's shaping up to be a pretty flippin awesome trip!
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