Happy New Year's!

I hope everyone rang in the new year properly. I seriously wanted to ring it in right and send 2004 with a nice big "fuck you!"

New Year's Eve was a lot of fun. I hung out with Druck, Ricky, Wolf and Kelsie. We started the evening by eating pizza and having a few drinks. Thanks to Ricky for being our DD. Then we headed downtown to watch the "star raising." It's kind of like the ball drop, I guess, except they were 5 minutes late with the countdown. :/ Everyone was cheering at midnight though, and I thought it was funny that no one's cell phone would work because of all the calls trying to go through. We walked around for a little while, and Kelsie and I went into a bar to take a celebratory New Year's shot. Kelsie said it was the best shot she had ever had. :D We walked around a little longer, and I realized that my friend David was probably spinning at his usual club, raking in the dough. It took me a while to remember where Fuel was, but I remembered and we found him up stairs. He seemed really happy to see us because he said no one ever comes to visit him at work. So we hung out with him, DJ Havoc, in the DJ booth for a good half hour, watching these girls try to make out with him and dance with him, slap his ass. Yeah, it was so weird because I know David as a little dorky kid who does martial arts. Crazy. After that we headed back to Ricky's for me to sober up and the rest to get crashing. At first I wasn't sure if I wanted to celebrate New Year's at all, but I'm glad I did. Let's hope for better times during this year. 2004 was just so bittersweet in so many ways. I did indeed do a lot of growing up. For more reflection, see blog archive "Reflection 101." Good luck in the new year everyone!!!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it....what the?!



That's right! I had my first white Christmas EVER. In SOUTHEAST TEXAS y'all! It apparently did not snow anywhere just north of the Texas coast line, but it snowed so hard, that there was a blizzard going on right in our own back yard. There was snow all on the ground Christmas Eve and on into Christmas day. It was the craziest, most bizarre thing I've ever seen. Honestly, the last time it snowed so much like that down there was in 1973. My dad said it wasn't as much back then as this time around. My mom, sister, and I went outside, made a snowman and had a snowball fight on Christmas Day. We also made a really huge block of snow and drove the dog crazy. We have a beagle named Snoopy who is about 2. He LOVED that stuff. My dad came out later in short sleeves. Oh yes, he got pegged. This picture was pretty funny too. Good ole Halloween decor. When we went to see more family later on, it was so funny to see a snowman in every household's front yard. Everyone was apparently equally as excited and bewildered at the concept of snow on the Texas coast.

Santa was good to me. I got a lot of money to help pay those bills I'm racking up in Austin. I also got a couple of movies and a necklace. I also ate way too much and I stuffed myself silly. I think the best gift was honestly the snow. Someone must have been wishing really, really hard for that one.