New Years Eve

I think New Year's Eve is overrated.  Movies, books and television tell us that cool people go out on New Year's Eve to exciting parties.  They wear beautiful clothes and spend the night dancing, sipping champagne and looking for the perfect person to kiss at midnight.  

I obviously am not cool and never was.  The most exciting New Year's Eve I have ever spent was with Bud.  We were married for six months and were in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  We went to dinner and by the time we hit the exciting nightlife in downtown I was tired and so was he.  We went home, crawled into bed and I fell asleep before I could kiss him or he me at midnight. Even in my young and single days I never had a more exciting New Year's Eve than a movie or dinner.

Tonight is no exception.  Bud is in Texas with Destiny visiting his parents and I am home with my mom and the two younger girls.  I have on jeans and a Darlington sweatshirt with my hair in a ponytail and no makeup on.  I am curled up on the couch with the girls watching Ryan Seacrest try to top Dick Clark (which he will never do).  We are eating popcorn and drinking Coke and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world tonight.  It would be nice to be cool though!!

Happy New Year's to all of our family and friends.