QotD: NYE 2008

Who is ringing in the New Year with you?  Who do you wish could be with you, but isn't there?

I spent New Year's Eve with most of my family.  Chaotic.  We made dinner together, stayed up and watched amateur fireworks being set off from our 11th floor patio.  It rained early in the evening, but fortunately cleared up so we could watch all the firework shells exploding near and far.

There weren't as many amateur fireworks as last year... makes me wonder if it's possible to create an economic index based on how much money people are willing to dump into blowing stuff up on New Year's Eve.  My brother Bob argues for the cardboard box index -- more or fewer cardboard boxes being sold relates to whether people are buying and/or shipping things.

My brother Ken wasn't here, though he sent us all tickets to the Tampa Bay Lightning / Philadelphia Flyers hockey game as a Christmas present.  I was disappointed he couldn't visit (I know he wanted to), but apparently he had no one to help watch his pets and it would have cost him a lot to board them all.

My sister Sarah and her husband already left for home, so they were also not here for New Year's Eve. Oh well.  I would have enjoyed spending more time with Sarah, but that's the way things work out. 

I have friends I would have enjoyed seeing on New Year's, but it just wasn't meant to be.  I was overwhelmed enough just mentally coordinating all the family-ness this weekend and holiday. I'm thinking of joining a community art class that starts in a couple of weeks.  I haven't done any regular drawing / art in about fifteen years, and I miss it. Not that I ever spent enough time at it to be good, but I enjoyed it.  Creating things makes me feel worthwhile in a way that not many other pursuits do.