New Years (From the Past)

-Please note that I started writing this blog before the New Years, and before I had my blog page prepared. Since then I have redesigned this "project", and will be starting it in earnest on January 10th, 2011-


It’s the dawn of a new year, and I have no idea what to write about, so I guess I’ll just quickly write about what happened today. This IS the start of my challenge, so I should at least get this page done.

At about 4:30 AM, my brother, my parents and I all gathered into a car and took my bro to the airport, so that he could head back to California. He’s back there by now, but the strange thing is that in the house, occasionally, I still feel like I can hear him saying things. But that’s probably just the similarities between his voice and my dad’s voice.

The three of us that took Tom to the airport then had an early morning breakfast at Denny’s. It was actually pretty good and reasonable, with french toast, eggs, bacon and an English muffin, along with a cup of coffee or two. Though I’d come to regret that coffee later, as the “low” that came later when I was tired and cranky made me feel rather irritable.

Back at the ranch house, I tooled around for a bit playing Team Fortress 2, for lack of a better thing to do. Found out I make a decent spy, though it might have just been circumstantial, as most of the teams I faced never expected a Medic to be a spy.

Though it did turn out that there WAS something I should’ve been doing. My cousin was right next door! That’s Brendon, his brother Eric, Brendon’s friend Omar, my aunts Mary, Barbera, and Kathy, and my Uncles Dave and Ray. Brendon, Omar and I played my new game together. Somehow I managed to win four times in a row, before Brendon started on an equally unlikely winning streak. I guess this game is just prone to one person winning repeatedly? Well, it’s still fun though. Short fun, that’s hard to learn, but based on enough skill that you can really feel like you’ve worked hard if you win, while in the end you don’t feel so bad if you lose.

Between that, sleeping to catch up on my lost rest, and eating dinner, I also had some heart-to-heart with Laura. I find that I felt just a little awkward today because I didn’t really have anything to talk about, which happens much too frequently. Maybe when I start writing and doing things, it’ll be better.

Wish I had remembered to give a proper New Years greeting to Zack before heading next door. He didn’t reply on AIM, which means he’s probably busy with something on the base, so it’s not that bad, but I’d have liked to at least. Though I DID get to talk to Laura no less than a few minutes after New Years struck, so that was awesome.

The Champagne is starting to get to my head, but I think that’s about a page, so I can stop here for now.