happy new year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, everyone!

Last night, Jeff and I went to a small dinner party hosted by our friend Parki, with Angela, Alison, JeffL, Jen and Doug. Wonderful food and conversation. Annie and Sara stayed up until the midnight for the first time, and they called us just as 2003 started to wish us a happy new year.

Not a bad way to begin 2003. :-)





My earliest memories of celebrating the new year are from childhood, when my family used to go to church for a midnight service, and my brother and I would perform a flute and piano duet. Later on, I remember that one of my New Year's rituals became listening to the Top 100 Songs of the Year on the radio (can't remember what station, sorry), sometimes recording them on tape. Never listened to the tapes more than once afterwards, but still found an odd comfort in having made the tapes, as if I had somehow successfully archived that year of my life and could therefore put it away and move on.

When Jeff and I became a couple, we started hosting New Year's parties at our house out in the country. We'd go tobogganning on nearby hills, have snowball fights, sit around the fireplace drinking hot chocolate and playing games, go skating on a homemade ice rink out on the pond. Most people would sleep over, bringing sleeping bags and pillows, curling up in whatever space they could find. I remember the front hallway always being a chaos of shoes and boots, and also wandering out into the house the next morning and find sleeping bodies everywhere.





I'm still going through my massive pile of print photos, purging and organizing. Click on any photo on this page to see a bigger version.

Some Blatherchat comments about my surprise lingerie shower photo from yesterday's Blathering made me laugh:

Dave Weingart:
"You realize, those aren't the pictures we really want to see from the lingerie shower."

Paul Kwinn:
"Having never been to a lingerie shower before, I'll have to ask: is the amount of booze in the bottom corner of the picture typical of such a gathering? (And if it is, then considering the unbeatable combination of drunkenness and lingerie, how can I get invited to one?)"

Chris Conway:
"Right on Dave ! - we wanna see some serious rain. - that is what you meant right?"

Have a Happy New Year's Day, everyone. :-)




Links/Updates:

Read Web pages while you're driving? See more info.

Remember mood rings from way back? Vanderbilt University is working on mood robots.

My friend Micki Koch (who was in the lingerie shower photo yesterday) has a Web log!

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Today's Blatherpics:

The last three photos are from my Photo Archiving project.

	With JeffL and Alison, at Parki's last night.
	Urban Tapestry performing a children's concert with Carol Roper, Barb Riedel and Carol Flynt. I believe this was Urban Tapestry's first public performance (hopefully Allison will correct me if I'm wrong). I believe this was at Confusion about ten years ago. Not sure who took this photo.
	Michelle Sagara at her wedding, talking to her sister Kelly.
	Jeff nine years ago.