December 17, 2003Christmas...New Year's....it's my favorite time of the year.
I have always been lucky to have New Year's Eve off in some manner-even leaving 1/2 a day early. It looks like this year will be the last "Get-out-early" for a couple years. We now have to work either Xmas Eve or New Year's Eve...Christmas Eve always wins by default as it's almost as religious to me as Christmas itself.
Every year I (and now Suz & I) host a small New Year's Eve party-usually the Fran Clan attends along with maybe 1 or 2 others. Erin, the Fran Clan's child, usually goes with her cousins or grandparents for the night. We drink, eat, drink, open presents, drink some more, watch DVD's...we have a blast and I truly look forward to this every year.
There are stories of me getting drunk and looking like a spider swatted with a newspaper-on the floor on my belly, limbs sticking out oddly and a few drunken groans emitting from my body (yes Groans! :)). Of course the first year Becky joined us, they got so hammered the walls had to tilt to accomodate their inability to walk. It was hilarious.
This year will be no different. I'll get out of work 'bout 7:30 or 8 and fly home. Quick shower during which I take a gigantic breath and slowly release the pressures of the day. Then dig into whatever food we have...this year was decided on DiBella's sub sandwiches (mmmm, make me a samich!).
Posted by pboulay at December 17, 2003 04:51 PMI'm not sure how much you're aware of this, but it wasn't drunken groans that were emitting from you that night... :) Although the swatted spider is still the only way to describe you when you fell out of your chair. We've never argued that we used the walls to help us walk - it was rather funny to be so drunk we couldn't walk straight yet not be passed out. Kind of a happy feeling, actually.
We moved down to Philli to accomodate a potential paycheck withdrawal, a cheesesteak withdrawal and a Cinnabon withdrawal - we decided on DiBella's for new years because we now have to accomodate a DiBella's withdrawal. We're still wondering when we're going to accomodate the McGregors withdrawal, Hooter's withdrawal, Pontillo's withdrawal and Tully's withdrawal, but we'll have a whole week up there to figure out when we're going.
Posted by: Fran at December 17, 2003 06:36 PM
I did NOT *FALL* out of my chair...I creatively jumped! There IS a difference!
Posted by: Pete B at December 17, 2003 06:40 PM
heehee.
We can call it "Falling with style", then... :)
Posted by: Fran at December 18, 2003 08:07 AM