I punched Goldner in the nose.
I didn’t mean to, but I did and the absurdity of it carried me, giggling, up the stairs and into my apartment where I said to Sir Hal, “I just punched Goldner in the nose. Man, that was funny.” His Excellency yawned, stretched and purred (I find this is his way of saying, “Yes, you do have the most mad cap adventures.”) and then went back to sleep. I’m pretty sure that if Hal were ever to discover his voice, he’d sound a great deal like Stewie Griffin, snooty, ambiguously gay and unexplainably British.
For every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you.
Aside from the movie date that ended in violence, I did my utmost to spend the weekend as Little Mary Shut-In. Though, I did eventually make it out on New Year’s Eve to meet up with an old friend from Boston and ring in 2005 in relative anonymity at an over-crowded Hell’s Kitchen asylum. At midnight I kissed Billy, and by 2:00 AM was home in bed with a book. There’s a good story in there about a fight breaking out at the bar and yours truly catching an elbow to the head, but it loses something in the retelling. As New Year’s Eve partying goes, out at 11, home by 2 may not sound exciting, but it was drama-free and completely lacking in failed expectations. And everything I needed it to be.
I’ve refrained from making resolutions this new year – something I felt just great about. And reading this morning’s AM New York, my lack of desire to make any sort of sweeping change was validated with the sentence, “More than 130 million Americans will go on a diet this year, but nearly 80% of them are expected to fail.” Look at that! I’ve just avoided failure by not making a goal.
I am so wise.
At my age, I take what I can get.
Posted by: G at January 3, 2005 09:28 AMYeah for relatively drama-free New Year's eve partying ...
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I was sent a link to your site from another tblogger who is trying to figure out what it going on here at tblog. I know I'm alittle late for your post in 09/04, but I wasn't able to comment on that one when I tried.
After reading your post, I felt like I had stepped into the twilight zone. I became suspicious of tblog when I had archives come up missing and wasn't able to get any support. That is crazy that your posts have been stolen. Were you ever able to talk to anyone about it? What ever came of the situation?
See, I have tried (unsuccessfully) to contact someone about my missing posts because I am a paying ProUser at tblog and had no warning that my archives would be deleted which of course pisses me off.
Just wondering. This is all too weird..
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Happy New Year! Finally, someone else who loves/knows that sprinkle line! :) My cat has no voice, but if she had a flavor, it would be marshmallow.
Posted by: angelix at January 3, 2005 01:49 PMYou are wise - and oh so ridiculous!
Posted by: Jerry at January 3, 2005 04:25 PMAh Fish, you are the greatest. Sometimes doing the unexpected (like not going all out on new year's eve) can be so refreshing. Besides the major head trama of the past few days it sounds as if everything is going peachy. Kudos.
Posted by: jimmy c at January 3, 2005 05:17 PMYou are really wise. My new years ended up with lots of failed expectations. No kisses for me (or punches at that rate).
Posted by: Jack at January 3, 2005 11:46 PM