Same Sh&t, Different Year: 2008 Edition

Hey!  Welcome to W&C v2008 and Happy New Year!

I used the same phrasing in the first post of last year and figured it was good enough to recycle... though thankfully a different tone (less "whine")... and while I probably should be announcing some profound change of course for myself and/or this blog, it ain't happenin'!  Like I said, just more of the same stuff you've grown to love (or hate) these past several years.

I have a lot of "blog material" zipping through my mind, but I think I will just focus and tell you about a couple of them and save the rest for a "rainy day"... and if it doesn't end up getting told, it probably wasn't worth my effort and your time anyhow!

First off, our New Year's!  More whimper, than bang to end the year... but on purpose and "okay."  We did something different this year, we slept our way into the new year!   Allow me to back up.  Upon his return from visiting family, Todd came home with a stomach flu bug.  On the way back, he text'd me that he was not feeling well... and, sure enough, I didn't see all that much of him when he did get in on Saturday night... and we'll just leave it at that.  While he was feeling better on New Year's Eve, he was still cautious about eating and there was definitely no drinking (of alcohol, that is). 

We watched what had to be the gayest thing on television for the night ... the East Coast/Times Square live television celebration... on... wait for it... CNN!   Yes, CNN.  Not only Anderson "Andy" Cooper anchoring... but special co-host, Kathy Griffin... and (!!) with regular visits via satellite to the Annual Midnight Drag Queen drop at Key West, Florida.  Kathy was on fire... though I am guessing she was the first to ponder how she landed that decidedly non-D List gig.

We were pretty much done with that celebration at 10:30pm our time.  At a loss of what to do next, not a whole lot interesting on TV, and both of us kinda zapped... we figured, what they heck... let's just go to bed!   Ironically and oddly enough, it was me who was out like a light and the recovering Todd who was likely still awake at our midnight (at 11:40pm, he told himself he wasn't going to look at the clock again).

So there you have it... New Year's Non-Rockin' Eve... and absolutely no regrets!

Well, I planned to switch to another topic here... but my long-winded tendencies apparently haven't curbed themselves in '08 (as I said... same sh&t, different year!)... so come back late for some more... eye candy, too!

Oh, one quick topic-shift/small thing!   I did get the MINI Cooper back on Monday/New Year's Eve.  The $1600-worth of a scratch is now a memory and all looks "good as new"... again!  I told the body/paint shop customer rep person that while I think they do great work, I hope never to see them again.

I was thankful that Cooper didn't have to spend one day more there and spillover into the new year.  I hadn't made (nor do I typically) a New Year's resolution... but here's one I will do my very best to keep... after 49 days in 2006 and 20 days in 2007....

No body or paint shop visits in 2008!!

Comments

[jen maiser]

I was in bed by 10.30 too. Out like a light in a house full of 7 adults and 2 kids -- I had a raging headache, unfortunately, and didn't even hear them ring in the New Year.

Hope 2008 is great for you & Todd ...

[Jeff]

Happy New Year!!!

[aymarius]

Happy New Year. I have enjoyed your blog for the last year. Here's to a great 2008!

[rachael]

So I've been reading your blog for over a year now... first found it when I ordered my MINI and couldn't get enough MINI news, pictures, blogs on the net! It's always fun to read.

Today I read your post about MINI in the mountains and surfed on over to your flicker site, and saw you also have a boston! I have a boston too, and we almost named him Rocky! Funny.

Thanks :)