new year's day...

new years is my least favorite holiday... i like the idea of it... getting to start over... new beginnings... but i never really like the celebration part of it... i was thinking about it today and thinking about the last several new year's eve events... i never really have fun on new year's eve, but when i was a kid, i thought it was going to be the greatest thing when i got older... one huge party... well, it hasn't proven to be that way in my life...

it all went downhill in 1998... i threw a new year's eve party at my dad's house... my senior year of high school... i invited a lot of my friends and we were going to play games and watch movies - i bought a ton of food to make snacks... everything was a disaster... the food was all bad - i bought generic brands of velveeta and rotel - life lesson learned... sometimes one of them will be okay generic, but both combined is not a good choice!!! i burned the cake, my friend marie got so mad at me (weird story involving a german exchange student... :) - i love you marie!) and it really just wasn't any fun - for anyone, i don't think...

1999 - honestly i can't remember what i did for new years... i'm thinking was hanging out with friends - but i can't remember at all...

2000 - the big one, right? courtney - a friend from college and i hung out at my apartment - pulled out the hide-a-bed on the sofa and watched sister act followed by sister act 2... i have no idea... at about 12:15, we realized what time it was, opened the front door, realized the world hadn't come to an end, shut the door and finished sister act 2.

2001 - was in texas at marie and jon's house... the only time i've ever been dating someone at new years - realized he was a jerk that night - we broke up two days later...

2002 - i went to dallas (back to back texas new year's... hmmm...) for a bowl game (cotton bowl?) - well, i didn't really go to the game - i went because my friends had tickets, so those of us that decided to go on the trip without the game - we hung out at the mall, but for new year's eve we ended up at a bowling alley where they offered everyone over 21 free champagne... we kind of had fun, but it's not my favorite memory - and then the next couple of days were horrible and i got into a huge fight with some of my closest friends - i don't think i've ever gotten so mad... whoa...

2003 - i was in china and we went to a chinese outdoor school party... crazy - fireworks right over my head... it was kind of more like a talent show with fireworks and people just standing around... and then we went back to one of my teammate's apartment and watched movies but fell asleep...

2004 - i went to a party at nicky's house - nicky was my sunday school teacher (kind of) when i moved to vancouver - and she has a son in college and a son in high school... the crowd was a lot of college students who were a lot younger than me - random people... i think we left early... or right after 12... it felt a lot like jr. high...

2005 - no idea what's in store... i may try to talk my friend jeff into having a movie marathon with me - but he has to leave early for california the next day... so he may say no... i got invited to a party, but i have a bad attitude going into new year's already and i don't know the people all that well... i just don't think i'm going to have fun... at least, hanging out with jeff, i know it'll be normal... and at least i'll feel like myself...

blah... i think i'm going to post a different entry - but i felt like giving my recent new years history - just in case i make a reference to new years in the next few posts...

hope your new year's celebration is fun and not stupid.