I happen to be working only 4 hours today. Then I plan to workout, and rest up for some festivities tonight. By festivities I mean...drinking ya damn fool. Of course, I'm headed to the big city (Cleveland) because no one ever does anything of excitement in the little city (Akron). I don't remember the last time I had a fun New Years at home? I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but perhaps it's a challenge to be more exciting? I could have tried to plan some elaborately fun event, but no one would attend. I really never thought it would be so hard to get folks together. Haters.

I believe we are headed to a couple of parties, and ending the evening at the manfriends with friends. We were going to do wine but if we're traveling to parties, I certainly am not stashing my wine in someone elses fridge. I take my drink seriously. Like, seriously, I'd pound you if I caught you drinking my shit. Getchur own!

I've realized in my quest for fitness (a.k.a giving up beer, hey, you gotta start somewhere) it's the pits to party away from home or bars. No one has alchohol at their house to offer. Beer? Sure. Maybe some plastic bottle vodka or something (yack). I can't very well take my own around with me....I don't want to travel with an open container, the party plates wouldn't look good on my gray car.

And, I sure as shit am not going to leave my unfinished alchohol at your house so you can drink it, that shit aint cheap. It's quite the predicament. The manfriend and I were at BW3 watching UFC with is friend and the friends girlfriend, when they decided (after we'd had one whole drink, and they were trashed) we should go see their new house. "you can come over and have some beer, and play cornhole". I'm so socially unacceptable anymore. If I could fix this problem legally...I'll be a millionaire. Maybe I'll invent a mobile liquer delivery. Go ahead and laugh. I have fabulous ideas.

I had the best new years ever, when I went with Edwin McCain at the House of Blues in 06/07. Having your future husband sing Auld Lang Syne, is kinda priceless.

I also made a slide show about it. Best. Time. Evah! The only way it would've been better was if i was with someone worthwhile (was with CP at the time) but even that didn't ruin it.

I usually don't do this, but it's the year for change.
In the new year, I plan to:

• work towards meeting my bootcamp goals
• Getting pretty drunk New Years, kissing my cute manfriend, and then getting lucky. Wink.
• Quitting smoking with the help of Chantex (the manfriend is gonna quit too so we can really test our love for one another.......wink)
• Eating more spaghetti squash w/marinara and kidney beans. I mean really, there is nothing more dee-dilly-icious in the world. Besides maybe, nutter butters. But we won't go there.
• Get a shih-poo
• Perfect a nearly no-calorie yet delicious, well-traveled alhoholic bevy
• Finish my closet so I can steal the manfriend and lock him inside
• Pay off my employee account at work
• Stop buying jewelry so I can do the previous task
• Go to the dentist A.K.A conquer my phobia, that has kept me away since my horrific wisdom teeth experience at 17 where I was numbed and had my teeth ripped from my gums. This one is necessary...but hard.
• Move. Preferably into a house. Screw this apartment searching, it's pretty pointless. Especially if I am going to get a shih poo, and have two dogs. I have too much crap to move into an apartment. I'm over looking.
• Buy an IRA or some other smart sounding investment into my old age so I don't have to die alone eating cat food
• Pay my city taxes. I guess. (I have not done so for like, 4 years, because oh yea, I already pay city taxes out of my check and paying to the city I also live, that claims they are not a city therefore need to tax me, is fucking stupid)
• Print the last 4 years of digital pictures like real pictures you can hold
• Put said pictures into albums
• organize all my pictures, and burn to CD

Mine aren't resolutions. I think resolution means you have problems. I have no problems, I'm at peace with all these things, but I'm a self development whore, and I like to improve my mental state, so why not branch out.

Labels: Drinking, Edwin McCain, Friends, I Want Something, working out