Happy New Year to you all! Hope that 2008 brings much happiness to you and your loved ones.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I know that sounds cheesy, but I really want to make an effort this year to make my life better. Last year, in comparison to other years, wasn’t my best or happiest. I’ve lost a bit of myself, and this year, I want to get it back. I want to make this year one that I can reflect on and think, “Man, this was one awesome year!”

I think this year I’m going to start password protecting some posts - not the whole blog, but this is the first time I feel that it’s necessary to hide my “public” thoughts from the general public. There are just times that I want to rant, rave and scream to the high heavens about crap, but I can’t because of people who might be reading or the trouble I might get into for speaking my mind. It’s sad, but I think that venting here would make life a little easier.

But enough of this negativity!

2008 started out pretty well. Dave, unfortunately, was on call, so he couldn’t be at our family party, but outside of that, it was more or less the same New Year’s eve I’ve been having for all of my life. We went to my aunt’s place, ate TONS of food (I made pasta, chocolate butter cupcakes with coffee cream cheese frosting and Illini cupcakes - orange flavored cupcakes with lemon buttercream “I”s) and played video games. Since only a couple people could play at one time, I suggested we play “Spoons”, a game we used to play as kids. It’s a pretty physical and violent card game, kind of like “Musical Chairs”, but instead of everyone having to grab a seat, they have to grab a spoon. It was a lot of fun, and it was nice to do something that didn’t need to be plugged in or controllers. We were all able to play together, interact, laugh and hit each other - and all we needed was a deck of cards and some plastic spoons. It was suggested that next time we up the stakes and play with knives instead.

We then stayed up to the wee hours playing Scattergories, yet another game we played as kids, and Marlon kicked our asses, which was pretty sad since he had been drinking a lot. We tried to watch some “Paranormal State” but it was hard to be scared with the clicking of mah jong tiles in the background. After that, we watched “Curse of the Golden Flower” since it was subtitled, but I was exhausted so I went to the room where I had abandoned my child and went to sleep.

So now I’m back home and Dave’s tired and sleepy since he was up all night at the hospital. I was nice and shoveled the driveway and we’re now watching the Tournament of Roses parade…getting ready to watch the Illini play USC.

I-L-L!

I-N-I!

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