The Aerie

Happy New Year!

We're shortly off for my friend R's New Year's Eve party. Of course, we're getting our first significant snowfall of the year right now: hopefully this will not reduce attendance, I know she's been putting a lot of effort into throwing this fancy shindig.

Our family friend D came by today to begin her annual viewing of the Lord of the Ring's movies. We try to do them all in one day, but this year we watched the first film today, and the other two tomorrow. The timing on watching 14 hours worth of video just didn't work out, particularly because D has a hard time getting anywhere before noon. How the girl holds a job is a mystery to me, because she's a night person of the first water.

This year has been eventful, what with our Germany trip, the remodeling project, and replacing our wrecked car. I wouldn't mind it if 2007 were a little more boring than that! And of course I hope that by this time next year we're out of Iraq as much as possible, that our president and vice-president have resigned in a fit of conscience, and that monkeys fly out my butt bearing sacks of gold.

See you next year!