How you rung in 2011 is how you’ll spend 2011
2 Jan
The few final hours of 2010 wound down with me and my husband wondering whether to go out at all. We’d been invited to 3 or 4 parties, and we’d planned to attend one of them despite having no babysitter for Jax (everyone I know is sick!). We thought we’d just repeat last year and let him tag along, then just leave the party early enough that Jax could still get to bed at a respectable hour. But neither of us could stop coughing our heads off long enough to get ready to get out the door before 8. As the clock ticked closer to 8, we realized we simply weren’t ambitious enough to go anywhere at all. I managed to summons a little motivation, however, to get my ass to the liquor store to grab a bottle of champagne. Because let’s face it, New Year’s Eve just isn’t New Year’s Eve without it!
So I returned home with the champagne (and 3 bottles of red, but who’s counting) and we all kinda just hung around the living room watching tv and playing with all Jackson’s new toys for several hours. Jax made it until 9:40, then he hit the sack (after hitting the wall sleepwise). I ended up quite amazingly staying awake until after midnight–into the new year! Hooray! I still don’t know how I did it–oh wait, it must’ve been that 20-minute nap at 10:30 (during our viewing of the new Ricky Gervais stand-up special on HBO On Demand, oops) that recharged me.
I could probably write a whole post about the Dick Clark special alone. Wow. Is Ke$ha the most annoying chick in the world? I think so. I can’t even stand spelling her name with that dumb dollar sign. Ugh. You know what? From now on, in protest, I’m spelling it Kesha. Wait, how about not spelling it at all? Why am I even talking about her??
Anyway, this NYE was the first one in AGES (at least as long as I can possibly remember) that I spent at home without friends around. As much as I love spending that night with friends, it was kind of nice to just hang out with the boys at home, no pressure. I’m excited for future NYEs when Jax can hang til midnight and torment the neighbors with the clanging of various pots & pans. He torments us with it every night, so why not share the joy on the one night when that kind of noise is tolerated?
Someone said that how you ring in the new year is how you’ll be spending it. How interesting! If I had known that going into 2011, what would I have done differently? I would have littered my living room floor with $20 bills and rolled around on them. Just kidding (sorta). I guess I would have rung it in sleeping blissfully, because that is how I hope to spend this year–asleep! Momma seriously needs to catch up!
So I guess if that hypothesis is true, I’ll be spending most of 2011 with my family, at home, drinking in my pajamas. Haha. Oh, and sick. It’s been 15 days of nonstop coughing. I’m so ready to not be sick anymore! I’m usually so healthy! Grr… Sickness aside, it doesn’t sound like a terrible way to spend this year.
How’d you ring in 2011?
I think if that sayg were true every1 w/b a functioning alcoholic. I hope to spend 2011 getting back into shape (as most) by sticking out a good gym routine. I have been slackg bc of other things req my immed attn. But I hope to dedicated 3-5 days/wk to exercising and a conscious diet.
I’d also like to work less at my reg job by going to my own remote location and eventually in my own office this year. Save about 10-15k, reduce my bad debts, increase my good debts, and buy more real estate.
That’s about it for my goals. Be healthier/make more money.
If God shld grant me any other blessings, that would be fabulous.
I think if that sayg were true every1 w/b a functioning alcoholic. I hope to spend 2011 getting back into shape (as most) by sticking out a good gym routine. I have been slackg bc of other things req my immed attn. But I hope to dedicated 3-5 days/wk to exercising and a conscious diet.
I’d also like to work less at my reg job by going to my own remote location and eventually in my own office this year. Save about 10-15k, reduce my bad debts, increase my good debts, and buy more real estate.
That’s about it for my goals. Be healthier/make more money.
If God shld grant me any other blessings, that would be fabulous.
i was at a bar with college friends. Although we had fun, i teared up when it turned to midnight. I was nostalgic and also broke up w my girlfriend days before. and i was happy but also sad. i hope this year will be good!
i spent the night at my boyfriend’s with his folks on the xbox 360 kinnect and on the Wii a little tipsy but having a great time! I hope that’s what 2011 will be like, but i would like my folks to be involved too at time hahaha
Our daughter is much younger than your son, so we decided to stay at home. Since we are pretty new to this town it wasn’t hard to choose this option ;-) We simply do not have many friends around here.
To stay occupied the few hours before midnight I was editing old photographs of my daughter.
At midnight since we don’t drink (I’m ACOA) we had a glass of sparkling apple cider (my favorite drink when I was pregnant) I took some pictures, and we spent the next few hours me editing my pictures and posting them to my blog,
http://eveqc.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/sparkling-year-of-2011/
my husband playing his new PlayStation.
It was a great night… I hope the 2011 will be just like that – very relaxing, with sleeping baby, doing what we are really pasionate about… hm… I’m not saying my husband is passionate about PlayStation, but I am about taking pictures!
wish you all great 2011!!!