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December 31 2007

Happy New Year

We are old. We are very, very old We are so old that we drank our New Year's champagne toast at 6 PM whilst watching the "special features" included in the deluxe version of season two of the TV series 24.

It gets worse.

The champagne has been sitting in our fridge since June. We meant to drink it in celebration of our anniversary, but we somehow forgot.

We have been invited out to play poker and make merry with our next door neighbours. They are lovely people. The other folks they invited are also lovely. We are too old for that, too.

Usually we feel positively sprightly, but not this year. We are only in our mid 50s, so there really isn't any reason at all to feel this way, but we do. It's been that kind of year.

At this point, I guess I should find a way to turn this entry around so I sound cheerful, hopeful, and maybe even funny. I can usually pull that off. Well, I might have been able to do it at 5:45, but now, after a single glass of champagne, I am feeling not just old, but also shnockered.

Yes, shnockered. I first learned that word from a woman friend of my mother's named Wanda. She drank something called an Old Fashioned. Her husband drank beer. She got tipsy. He got shnockered. My dad got plain old drunk, but we kids weren't supposed to know that.

In any case, I have had my one and only drink of the year, and I am ready to go to bed. I'll probably snore. I will also cuddle with the old guy I'm married to while I think about the good things that are no doubt ahead of us in the New Year. Before I close my eyes, I'll say a prayer or two.

There are so many people in this world that need to have a prayer said for them tonight.

Happy New Year.

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#1 01 January 2008 - 04:10

you turned it around ok. well done! happy new year, V!

howard

#2 01 January 2008 - 06:23

'shnockered' 1st new word of 2008!!!

Jackal

#3 01 January 2008 - 07:37

Happy New Year Vicki and Ron.

Your blog rocks! This year holds a ton of promise you guys - and that prayer? Was said for finer days ahead!

Hugs from Cedar Rapids, IA...
Brett & Debbie

Anonymous

#4 01 January 2008 - 11:11

yah we are so old we celebrated by ordering a pizza! whoo-hoo! yippee! living so dangerously on the edge. oh yeah.

happiest of new years to you dearest V. so glad you're back in blogworld again.