Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:40:07 PM
Drove home listening to Carbon Leaf's
http://www.carbonleaf.com/ two songs about New Years : Desperation Song and Let Your Troubles Roll By. Been listening to more music these days. My R.E.M. mix CD, my obscure mix of songs for my kids, and other random stuff. Everyone on talk radio is on vacation or running repeats. Also getting sick of the Gov. Blago story. Another year over. New Years is my second least favorite holiday after Halloween which is the most pointless holiday of all. Probably this stems from me being a non drinker. Getting drunk seems to be the main point of the holiday and making resolutions that no one seems to keep. We are doing our second annual New Years Eve party. It was my wife's idea to have our friends over that have small children to celebrate the New Year on the east coast feed off the satellite. So at 9pm Pacific, we all yell, "Happy New Year!!" and everyone goes home and to bed early. There will be sparkling cider for the kids to toast in their plastic champagne glasses. It is actually a lot of fun and is a nice excuse to get the parents and kids together. Tomorrow my New Year's Day ritual will begin. No, I really don't get into the bowl games. We do watch the Rose Parade but that is because the kids are up at 630am anyway so might as well watch some floats. No my ritual involves the cleaning of the gutters. I do this on New Years because it is a day my wife and I are both home but aren't doing particularly anything. My neighbors tree starts spitting up leaves and it clogs up my gutters and the drain on the roof over my garage. So a couple of times a year, tomorrow and in a month or so, I will go up on the roof with gloves, broom, trash bags, and walkie-talkie. If I fall off the roof, the walkie talkie will not be very useful. It has been six years and and I haven't fallen off once. In about another month, another new year ritual will begin, the digging through receipts for taxes looking for anything to deduct. That is always a fun time in our household. We try to shoot for pre but sometimes we are post Superbowl in that ritual. Happy New Year.