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by Kat

There was no New Year's post for me as there was no internet where I was. You see, I spent the weekend on Orcas Island in the San Juan Island chain, just off the coast of Washington state. There was hardly any cell service (none, really, where we were) and the only time we ventured into "town" was to eat mexican food at Bilbo's and get groceries.

This year's celebration marks another to cap a series of interesting New Years after a long dry spell of doing nothing...NYE 2000-- and before-- were spent contemplating a boring evening, usually alone. For the last five, however, I've been a part of more 'interesting' events:

NYE 2001- Spent watching fireworks off Bevvy's porch in Helena, Montana, in a horribly depressed Depo-Provera induced haze

NYE 2002- Spent sipping Mai Tais and champagne while party-hopping around a Belizian Isle and then crashing at our hotel bar till it closed

NYE 2003- Spent in Tokyo, lonely but philosophical, visiting my neighborhood's shrine to make a very important realization

NYE 2004- Spent drinking, gnoshing, and stuffed into a cage at a house party hosted by Seattle's best known dominatrix

This year was spent eating delicious food and imbibing a little too much wine and champagne at the Orcas Island house of our very fortunate friends Anne and Jeff. We had a good evening at the party, which ended shortly after midnight, and then we headed back to our own lodging.

...At which point the five glasses of champagne I'd chugged when no one else seemed to want to finish the bottle caught up with me. I promptly made an ass of myself in the car by laughing while taking a sip of water and spraying Talking Rain all over the leather seats in RacheMicah's subaru. Oops. All the drinking didn't help the fact that the drive was twisty-turny as hell. Rach and I both felt icky even on the way there, but the way back was torture enough to cause me to "spill my guts" as soon as I got home. I'll pretend I did it as a New Years present for the raccoons.

The past year was eventful, but I'm hoping 2006 will be less stressful. During 2005 I did a lot of fretting and sweating about finishing my undergrad thesis, graduating, acting as a bridesmaid in Rachel and Micah's wedding, moving to Seattle, not finding a job, finding a job, moving for the second time in three months, adjusting to a new job, and dealing with the holidays. Ugh! There will always be things to stress about, but I'm hoping for nothing as persistant as the chain of events over the last year.

I can't say for sure what 2006 will bring, and I didn't make any resolutions, but I can give a few predictions-- I'm considering (maybe) getting a second cat to keep Rupert company, I expect to travel a bit for work (including to Albany, NY, in two weeks), I bet I'll write for the Seattle Weekly a few times, I expect to be helping J through his first year of nursing classes and maybe I'll pick up a new stressor or two, like planning a wedding. Hmm. Maybe.

But that's all the thought I'll give to the unknown for now. Check back for NYE 2005 photos to be posted this evening.

Posted on January 03, 2006 @ 10:01 AM | 9 comments

Comments:

Happy 2006! At least you got your first barf of the year over with early.

Here's to 2006 weddings? eh? eh?

By Adrienne, at 11:13 AM, January 03, 2006

And my first hangover...

heh

Well, if/when the wedding happens, it won't be at least until 2007. I plan to take my sweet time working out the nitty gritty. :-)

By Kat, at 11:39 AM, January 03, 2006

Albany, eh? Not that you'll have time, but if you'd like to see our snowy retreat, it's not that far...

By inkandpen, at 11:42 AM, January 03, 2006

Argh! I should have thought of that...
I don't know if it's feasible because I don't have a rental car or leisure time. Dammit!

By Kat, at 11:46 AM, January 03, 2006

Rest at ease: the Talking Rain that you accidetally sprayed in the car was just spring water, not carbonation with fruit juice extracts.

And wasn't the day after our wedding your first hangover, if I remember correctly? ;)

We had so much fun at Orcas, wewt!

By Rachel, at 11:06 PM, January 03, 2006

Ahh, I thought it was Talking Rain brand spring water. :-)

And no, my first hangover wasn't your wedding, but long before! That was just the first really SHITTY hangover I've had. And this was just my first hangover of 2006... I'm sure there will be more to follow.

Glad you had fun! ^_^

By Kat, at 11:15 PM, January 03, 2006

fotos? =-(

By Anonymous, at 2:56 PM, January 04, 2006

do you find your japanese has gone to shit or do you keep up on it?

By peter, at 4:51 PM, January 04, 2006

Hey, that's a pretty good TOri Amos song.

By Rebecca, at 7:21 PM, January 04, 2006