Hoping for Great

It's a new year... woo!

I really don't care all that much for New Year's Eve celebrations. I feel there is too much hype for a fabulous evening. I don't know that I've ever celebrated New Year's Eve in true form... and that's okay with me. Someone (I believe it was my mom, but I'm not so sure) once told me not to ring in the new year with people you don't see yourself being with at the end of the year. 

That quote proved its trueness recently. Last year I had an enjoyable New Year's Eve evening at Trudy's with my friends Brian and Derek., which resulted in some fun quotables. A couple of days before the end of 2011, I heard the news that my ex got engaged. Both Brian and Derek were quick to text similar jokes relating to my desire to be proposed to in front of the Bellagio in Vegas. It was funny to me that three of us started the year off together making jokes, and a year later were ending the year still making jokes.

I took a chance this year and went to a party in Buda with people that I barely know - and by barely know, I mean we have become good friends in recent months, but I still don't know much about them. It was a fun time - there were about 10 of us at the party, we dressed up in black and white, had some fun in the makeshift photo booth, watched neighbors shoot off fireworks, danced, drank some bubbly, had a sleepover, and ate some breakfast tacos the next morning before parting ways. Will I be with these people at the end of the year? Who knows... but it was a chance I was willing to take.

Here are some photos from the photo booth (please note - all of these pictures were done in fun and in jest... there was no romantic magic in the photo booth):

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The past few years have been "meh" years. Don't get me wrong - there have been superb things that have occurred during those years and not so fabulous things. But looking back at them, overall they have just been "meh." With the exception of 2010 - that year effing sucked. But anywho, I want 2012 to be a great year. I know that there will be some sucky times, but I want something great to happen this year... something that hasn't happened in a while. I don't know what that great thing will be... mayhaps a promotion/raise at work, a romance, girls trip to Vegas to see Celine... any of these would be great - if all were to happen this year, then I would most definitely think it would be an overall great year.

But I'm not thinking too much about things that don't exist. So for now, I will hope for something great and do what I can to make that happen on my end.