Happy New Year!

Well, it was a busy season. December 23rd saw me in the ER for abdominal pains. I was useless for the five days following. No idea as to the cause.

New Year’s was nice and quiet. Played some dominoes and finally started eating some holiday foods (had been eating “carefully” since the ER trip).

I’m not sure what it is about New Year’s, for me it’s always the forgotten holiday every year. I spend two months planning and getting ready for Christmas…and then after that holiday is over, someone asks me what my plans are for New Year’s and I’m like: “Oh! New Year’s! Umm…”

Every damn year I forget New Year’s! So often, I wind up really not doing anything because I forget about it until a day or two before. And it is such an intensely social holiday, I need all the time after Christmas to emotionally prepare myself for the partying. So if I forget (which I always do) until too late, by that time I REALLY have no desire to do the New Year’s thing at all so I do something quiet instead.

And as other peace-lovers know, doing something quiet for New Year’s is not looked on favorably by our more social family members and friends. Admit to someone you spent that evening at home enjoying a good book while watching the ball drop in Times Square on tv, and folks wonder what is wrong with you.

I do have some good news though, I bought a camera. Never been much into taking pictures, because I figured I wasn’t really that good at it. But then, I don’t think I’ve really put any more effort into the activity beyond point-and-shoot…and randomly guessing whether or not I need to use a flash (often taking the same pic with, and without flash), and somehow hoping that my photos are going to turn out good. If anyone reading this really is into photography, you can likely guess how often my pictures have disappointed me. Especially since I’ve always been super frugal about my shots, and never adjust anything on the camera other than the auto-zoom feature.

Now I’m going to take a real stab at TAKING good pictures, instead of hoping my pictures wind up looking good (I’m going to figure out what all those other buttons really do!). The reason this is good news of course is that this blog is likely to get some pictures on it.

Fingers Crossed!