Auld Lang Syne

So another year has passed and 2005 marks the end of one era and the beginning of another in the saga that is my life. I am now officially on my last semester of school (that I know of) and hope that all goes well so that I am able to enjoy myself as well as prepare for my future. This month also marks the one-year anniversary of this weblog. I assume from all the positive feedback I get from people that all is going well and so here's to another year of mindless internet babble from someone who doesn't really add anything to the fabric of society and intends to keep it that way. One of my New Year's resolutions is to be more active in this site and to not give up so easily on posting (that and to actually wash my dishes). From the looks of it, this semester should be most beneficial in achieving this goal. So onwards with another year!

Actually, I guess before I move on to 2005, I should at least recap the end of 2004.

My winter break, which you could probably gather from my online absence, was both relaxing and unproductive. Well it wasn't a complete waste of time since I did have some things to keep me busy. For example, I went to work with partner-in-crime Rebecca Jennings on our summer film, hoping that we could finish it over break. Unfortunately, not only did we temporarily misplace the tapes, but faced some computer issues in the editing and lacked the work ethic to film much. In short, we failed in our goal to complete everything, but at least this gives me more time to figure out which scenes should go where. On a positive note, we did get a lot of editting done and so we do have some fruits from our labor.

Aside from working on our movie, I spent a lot of time watching movies. By my count I think I saw 5 movies in theaters and about 7 movies released in 2004 on DVD (not to mention the other movies I saw). Comparing this to last year's count, I'm definately up on my movie watching, which is going to make my top ten movie selection even more difficult. Aside from movie watching, I also took a few days to go skiing up in Mammoth in the fresh powder. We were there between storms and the conditions were excellent! And of course, no winter break would be complete without college football, and this year had some terrific games (including one very specific game, *Fight On!*).

Christmas Day was spent solely with my family, which was nice because I neither had to clean the house nor sit at the children's table for meal time. It's so sad that that actually still happens. New Years Eve was also fun this year with just a small group of people around to play games and have some fun. My older brother played bartender and my personal evening drink list looked something like this:

-- A Bass beer to kick off the evening
-- Half a Heiniken
-- a Caucasian (in honor of the Big Lebowski)
-- 3 cranberry-vodka shooters in a row
-- 2 very Long Island Ice Teas (both shared with Rachel)
-- and of course, Champange at midnight

Rachel and I were on the same team for 90's Trivial Pursuit and I believe we both drank the most. Needless to say by the end of the game we sort of slowed down mentally. It seems to me that New Years Eve parties must include a lengthy game of some kind in order for the party to be official. This is a pattern that I've noticed for the past several years. Observe:

2000 - Risk (at my house)
2001 - Cranium (at Amy's house)
2002 - I was gone so I can't vouch for this year
2003 - Mad About Movies (my house)
2004 - 90's Trivial Pursuit (my house)

I guess we've unofficially started a tradition. So anyway, that seems to be the summary of the times passed since I last posted and concludes the very unique year of 2004. As exciting as it was this past year, I promise that the 2005 version of my weblog will be even better. Besides, I resolved it right?