Obligatory New Year Post
Well, as most of you know…it is now 2011. A new year. Figured I’d make a post before the second.
2010 was…odd. It had its good times, it had its horrible times, and towards the end it had wonderful times. Everything has been like living in a haze for the past several days. Friends, loved ones and the like really made the end of 2010 worthwhile.
As far as the updates for my rather uninteresting life…I finally got around to paying on that ticket I got a month ago. I took the defensive driving class…found out that I should have paid the ticket first then took the class, but since they were not clear on that they gave me some leeway. I have many hangups about law enforcement types, but the people over at the JP office are quite nice, understanding and seem to do whatever they can to make things easier. I have great respect for them, and that is saying something. They even gave me another month to work on my truck registration.
This last week has been quite fun. Lots of hanging out with friends, going out of town to eat at yummy places like IHOP and Long John’s, watching Fringe, late nights, and the like. New Year’s Eve was interesting. There were no original plans for a party or anything, but we kind of made one. On the way out of town, to go eat, R* decided that getting liquor was needed, so we stop by M*’s and see what needs to be stocked up on, and that started the plans for the New Year party. We leave, go eat, go to the liquor store and stock up. I decided to buy some Gin, as I’ve never had gin before and wanted to try…so I get that, some tonic, a blue shot glass (just because) and some cheap scotch (more on that later). R* and S* pick up some whiskey, some Arrogant Bastard Ale (stout…very stout), a beer called Hobgoblin (delicious…even for a dark), some Pumpkin Spice Beer (yum), and something else I can’t quite recall that has yet to be sampled (well for me at least). We get back home and wait until the party.
It started quite early…with just a few of us (the party wasnt a big one…which is a good thing) I mix my own and very first Gin and Tonic. It was quite good. Not my favorite mixed drink, but a good one. Then we show off the very cheap scotch I bought. It was $10 and a rather good size of a bottle. It looked scary. It’s name…Clan MacGregor. How awesome of a name is that?!! Well, M* decides to start things off by taking a rather large chug of this straight from the bottle. We all looked terrified as he did this. After a moment, I decided to try as well. I chugged a fair amount..then chased it with my G&T…that burned. The scotch wasn’t really bad…it had a good taste to it buy also a powerful powerful burn…it was like drinking burnt whiskey. R* decided to give it a shot…then S* out chugged us all…and she was already a little toasty to begin with. I, not one to be shown up…chugged again. This stuff took a bit…then hit you all at once…it was not even 9pm when we were all extremely tipsy if not drunk…after that…some Arrogant Bastard…and the rest of my G&T I was three sheets to the wind. So much so, that I couldn’t even finish my glass of whiskey..which I was sipping on for a while. Though of course I chugged some more of the scotch later. Luckily no one got sick.
Lots of fuzzy moments happened. Tops came off, some Soul Caliber was played…some chatting…etc. Then came midnight and with it the new year…and some champagne…it seems I am not a champagne person.
Soon we sobered up…went home and R* crashed immediately…me and S* tried to watch Zombieland but ended up getting sleepy…so she went to bed then I went to mine. I meant to stay up a bit longer but completely passed out…woke up around 6am with a rather bad headache and extremely thirsty. I drank a bottle and a half of water…took some pills for my headache and dozed off. Woke up around 10 or 11am feeling perfectly fine.
We hung out a bit…got lunch..finished Zombieland…and I went back to bed because work was in my future.
And that brings me to now…sitting at work…thinking over these past few days. Liking it all, loving it all…but still confused.
-sneak attack-
