Happy New Year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!
My New Year got to a fantastic start. Kathy was over and we were watching Anastasia when the New Year rolled in, so we took a quick break to call people. And in my case, hop online to wish everyone on gchat or Twitter (Savior, Willow, Dani & Katarik) a Happy New Year. We'd made a flourless chocolate cake together and enjoyed it with ice-cream for her, and whipped cream for me, and after we finished the movie, we did Bleigießen, which told me that this year, I will make enemies, defeat my enemies, and have luck starting up endeavors. My parents came home while we were doing that (they'd been out at a party, for which I'd baked a flourless chocolate cake which the scraps of which were SO GOOD that I decided to make us one as well, hence Kathy and I cooking), and we took Kathy home. Then I came back and quickly wrote a Galactik Football fanfic to welcome in the New Year, posted it, found out that one of the commissions I'd ordered and paid for in September was finished, squeed over it, and went to bed.
The last day of 2008 was pretty good too. I made two flourless cakes, chocolate ganache, coated grapes in chocolate ganache, made cutlets for the first time EVER (my mother approved of them and said that maybe she'll make a good Sri Lankan cook out of me yet), and met Kathy for Japanese for dinner. They gave us a free bottle of sake to take home as a New Year's gift! I was honestly expecting Kathy to go back to her family for the actual New Year's midnight, so it was awesome to have her here. *hoards Kathy-time jealously*
She said that if I'm still in Vienna when my birthday rolls around, her "rather self-indulgent" present (her words, not mine!) will be to buy me a plane ticket up to London to hang out with her. YAY. We talked about how much fun it was when we shared a room/flat in Boston, and how it sucks that we're unlikely to live together again since now she's got a steady boyfriend, she's more likely to move in with him. I am really glad, looking back on the years, that our friendship is still going so strong and is so easy. No stress, no awkward moments of trying to figure out how to make small talk, no wondering why she just can't be happy for me or why I'm so incompetent at understanding what she's talking about.
I adore her, and despite not having got enough sleep, I'd say this New Year is off to a fantastic start!
Happy New Year, everyone! May 2009 far outrock 2008 for all of you!
My New Year got to a fantastic start. Kathy was over and we were watching Anastasia when the New Year rolled in, so we took a quick break to call people. And in my case, hop online to wish everyone on gchat or Twitter (Savior, Willow, Dani & Katarik) a Happy New Year. We'd made a flourless chocolate cake together and enjoyed it with ice-cream for her, and whipped cream for me, and after we finished the movie, we did Bleigießen, which told me that this year, I will make enemies, defeat my enemies, and have luck starting up endeavors. My parents came home while we were doing that (they'd been out at a party, for which I'd baked a flourless chocolate cake which the scraps of which were SO GOOD that I decided to make us one as well, hence Kathy and I cooking), and we took Kathy home. Then I came back and quickly wrote a Galactik Football fanfic to welcome in the New Year, posted it, found out that one of the commissions I'd ordered and paid for in September was finished, squeed over it, and went to bed.
The last day of 2008 was pretty good too. I made two flourless cakes, chocolate ganache, coated grapes in chocolate ganache, made cutlets for the first time EVER (my mother approved of them and said that maybe she'll make a good Sri Lankan cook out of me yet), and met Kathy for Japanese for dinner. They gave us a free bottle of sake to take home as a New Year's gift! I was honestly expecting Kathy to go back to her family for the actual New Year's midnight, so it was awesome to have her here. *hoards Kathy-time jealously*
She said that if I'm still in Vienna when my birthday rolls around, her "rather self-indulgent" present (her words, not mine!) will be to buy me a plane ticket up to London to hang out with her. YAY. We talked about how much fun it was when we shared a room/flat in Boston, and how it sucks that we're unlikely to live together again since now she's got a steady boyfriend, she's more likely to move in with him. I am really glad, looking back on the years, that our friendship is still going so strong and is so easy. No stress, no awkward moments of trying to figure out how to make small talk, no wondering why she just can't be happy for me or why I'm so incompetent at understanding what she's talking about.
I adore her, and despite not having got enough sleep, I'd say this New Year is off to a fantastic start!
Happy New Year, everyone! May 2009 far outrock 2008 for all of you!