. . . and a happy New Year!
January 02 2009 08:25 PM
On New Years day, we celebrated with good friends. We watched Dark Knight (or rather everyone else watched Dark Knight, while I made Baked Ziti for dinner so that I could avoid the movie as much as possible. It’s not my favorite.) It was fun to spend the first of 2009 with dear friends.
We have such fun neighbors. We were invited to an adults only New Years Eve party at the home of our neighbors two doors down. The evening began with Guitar Hero World Tour. I got up the guts to sing to two songs, Just Beat It, and Hotel California, accompanied by jeers and heckles from the peanut gallery.
Next we played a rousing game of “Do You Love Your Neighbor.” In this game, some unlucky individual stands in the center of a circle of seated friends, walks up to someone and asks “Do you love your neighbor.” If the person answers yes, they the neighbors have to trade seats while the person who asked the question also tries to take on e of the seats. The person without a seat has to stay in the middle and ask the questions. If the answer is no, then the person who is being asked the questions has to say something like “ . . .but I love everyone who has ever had braces” or something like that. I spent so much time in the middle, it wasn’t even funny. I don’t know how many people I sat on or bruised. I hit my head on something hard at one point and bruised my thigh another time, but I had a fabulous time.
When that game was over we played something else where you write a sentence at the top of a piece of paper and hand it to the person next to you. That person has to draw a picture of the sentence and then fold the top of the paper over so that only the picture is visible and then you hand that to the next person who has to write a sentence about the picture, and so it goes until the paper is filled up. Then, when all the papers are filled, you read them. HILARIOUS!
By the time we were finished with that game it was time to watch good old Dick Clark and the New Years Eve party at Times Square. We counted down and at midnight, we drank Martinelli’s Sparkling Cider and kissed our spouses. I love having someone to kiss on New Year’s (and any other time of the year for that matter.) After all that, we played Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus and I think that I now know my neighbors a bit better than I did before in ways that I probably wouldn’t have imagined. It was a very fun night, and I hope that I didn’t do anything so stupid that would bar me from being invited again next year!
We have such fun neighbors. We were invited to an adults only New Years Eve party at the home of our neighbors two doors down. The evening began with Guitar Hero World Tour. I got up the guts to sing to two songs, Just Beat It, and Hotel California, accompanied by jeers and heckles from the peanut gallery.
Next we played a rousing game of “Do You Love Your Neighbor.” In this game, some unlucky individual stands in the center of a circle of seated friends, walks up to someone and asks “Do you love your neighbor.” If the person answers yes, they the neighbors have to trade seats while the person who asked the question also tries to take on e of the seats. The person without a seat has to stay in the middle and ask the questions. If the answer is no, then the person who is being asked the questions has to say something like “ . . .but I love everyone who has ever had braces” or something like that. I spent so much time in the middle, it wasn’t even funny. I don’t know how many people I sat on or bruised. I hit my head on something hard at one point and bruised my thigh another time, but I had a fabulous time.
When that game was over we played something else where you write a sentence at the top of a piece of paper and hand it to the person next to you. That person has to draw a picture of the sentence and then fold the top of the paper over so that only the picture is visible and then you hand that to the next person who has to write a sentence about the picture, and so it goes until the paper is filled up. Then, when all the papers are filled, you read them. HILARIOUS!
By the time we were finished with that game it was time to watch good old Dick Clark and the New Years Eve party at Times Square. We counted down and at midnight, we drank Martinelli’s Sparkling Cider and kissed our spouses. I love having someone to kiss on New Year’s (and any other time of the year for that matter.) After all that, we played Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus and I think that I now know my neighbors a bit better than I did before in ways that I probably wouldn’t have imagined. It was a very fun night, and I hope that I didn’t do anything so stupid that would bar me from being invited again next year!
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