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New Year's Eve on the Queen Mary

First, some history. Growing up we watched Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve. In college, it was usually spent with friends and later, as family life took over, movie marathons and shindigs to get us to midnight. New Year's Eve for me the last few years has been hit or (mostly) miss. Not to mention all the sickness I have kept at bay for the year inevitably catches up to me the week between Christmas and New Year's. NYE 2010 it was a kidney infection , no drinking for me. NYE 2011 I had the flu, or at least flu-like symptoms, so we stayed home.  NYE 2012 I  went to Knott's Berry Farm  with my mom. IP was with her dad and the SO was back East. Last year we practically froze at Boston's First Night and went home early where we could eat Chinese food in warmth and comfort (apparently that's a New England thing). The point is, I'm not a big party person when it comes to NYE. On the other hand, my S.O. is a huge party person. He's finally accepted t...

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Wishing all of my friends a happy and prosperous New Year. Year of the Horse by uniqueLegend on deviantART No red envelopes will be given this year (not that that's new for my son). Pin It Related articles 8 Reasons Why We Love Chinese New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choy! 9 Ways to Celebrate Chinese New Year

Turn this Mutha Out - Happy New Year!

Image from http://www.duy.im/2011/10/happy-new-year-2012.html   This has been quite the year! Last year about this time I thought I was dying, but it was just a kidney infection . This New Year's Eve I am stuffed up and alternating between being a mouth-breather and imitating Niagra Falls. I can't remember the last time I had a good New Year's Eve. Probably back in Oregon when I threw Shindigs (as in Browncoat parties). I've been debating for days what this last post of 2011 should be. A Best of? A collage? A worst of? A general summary? I'm still debating. I'm just glad it's over. It wasn't a bad year overall, started out sick, ended sick, and in between ... I managed to finally lose ten pounds and gain about five of it back in the last two months. I have about (1)50 posts in drafts, so if you read my blog via RSS, you're not going crazy, I'll just be knocking out the relevant ones. So let's try the recap approach. I take photos a...