As I close this string of remembrances, I found a loophole with the deadline, which I obviously missed for 1996 and 2001. According to my wife’s awesome and tasteful Bettie Page calendar, January 7 was Orthodox Christianity’s Christmas Day, ergo, this resets the 12-day song/goal so I am done early…only with my friend Doc.
Enough hairsplitting and spurious tactics, we’re in for that crap all the way until November, especially from a lying sack of crap named Mitt “I Love to Fire People” Romney.
Overall, the mood for the holiday season was mediocre at best. What should’ve been a great time in my new house, celebrating and relaxing, remained overshadowed by the NYC-Pentagon attacks from a couple months earlier. Neither Somara nor me were flying anywhere so we were spared the tension this ensued.
I was glad I took the day off. Somara was making a nice meal but the bigger thrill was getting to break in the gift she gave me, a PS2. It wasn’t a surprise, I knew about the video-game system since Thanksgiving, hell, she bought it in front of me. In anticipation I scored a couple other games in advance to play: Namco Museum and Simpson’s Wrestling. Within a month I also bought EA’s NHL 2001; you can blame this for why I’m a better/stronger hockey fan.
Other than bumming around the house, eating too much, I’m foggy on anything else. I figure we visited Somara’s family members up in Georgetown. Exchanged gifts, called it a day because I had work for the remained of the week.
Kind of a shame this series fizzled out with a rather weak time but I think I may do is try to resequence the years in chronological order beginning with 1975 and ending on 2005. What has happened from 2006 on may have to wait until they reach a decade, this recent 2011 break was pretty eventful, more than the Aughts combined. It definitely has inspired me to push for traveling during the down time.
Thanks for sticking with this every year. Next year I do want to read others’ memories.