New Years!

Jan 01, 2009 20:49

We have this annoying bad habit of having shitty new years. . . Every year for the past several years something has happened to ruin New Years. Usually it's Christopher's New Years that gets ruined, which in turn ruins husbank's and my new years--cause a miserable kid can ruin your party real fast. It started when Mari, Christopher and their cousin Courtney were out by the main street about, uh. . .perhaps six years ago and I caught them and went totally apeshit. I mean, I freaked out on them, because they were all young and the main street at the end of our road is curvy and not lit and on New Years, the main drinking and driving night, well--I freaked. I came back to my MIL's with three sobbing children and effectively ruined New Years over my Mama flip out at the thought of one or all of them getting hit by a drunken asshole. This for some reason really got to Christopher and he never forgot it and ever since has been spastic about NOT ruining New Years and every year does. . . One year he missed the ball drop, another he was on the phone with a friend when we were trying to get him to come join us and we got mad at him, stuff like that. . . One year a pipe burst right after the ball dropped (this ruined ALL our new year and flooded our backyard to boot, and no shit, it was like five seconds after the ball dropped and we all felt that could NOT be a good sign. My Dad died that year.)

So this year to battle the curse. . .My MIL decided to throw a party, the first one in many years, and she set up all sorts of awesome snacks and such. My SIL and her family came over and we were all having a pretty good time. I didn't get to drink anything because all they had was champagne and Sangria, both of which I am allergic too (I can't drink wine) and MIL was like, "Oh, there is Pepsi in the fridge." And I was like O___o party, I guess. So I drank pepsi. HEH! But, still it was pretty fun and everyone else was getting drunk, which was sorta fun to watch. Even Mari had sangria. She must not have had that much, because she woke up sprite. Her EX Boyfriend (keyword being EX!!) showed up about fifteen minutes to New Years and I told Mari, "Keep him away from your Granny." Cause my MIL wanted to murder him the second time he broke up with her. I dunno, the two of them have an up and down relationship. He likes to break her heart, she likes to forgive him. I took him showing up at MIL's on New Years to mean that he must have REALLY wanted to see Mari for the New Year because he hasn't come to a family get together in months because he KNOWS we are NOT pleased with him--Boo was happy to see him, though. He loves Matt.

Anyway, we were watching Dick Clark (Ack, so sad. . .I hate seeing him struggling) and I went into the other room to get Mari and Matt to join us before the ball dropped, but she wouldn't come because she was still trying to separate Matt and MIL. So I gave up and went back out to watch the ball drop. We were all ready, husbank had the champagne bottle ready to open and we started to count down, 5-4-3-2-----

And the t.v. switched channels RIGHT AT MIDNIGHT! We all started screaming, the noise raised the roof because we were so stunned and shocked that we heard them get down to 2 in the count, but missed the ball drop. . . I was thinking someone sat on a remote or something, but my FIL said from the corner, "Law and Order."

My MIL loves Law and Order and has her TV programmed to flip to it whenever it comes on. . . By the time we flipped back everyone was singing and kissing and we missed the whole thing. I had the quick forethought in the chaos to lean over and kiss husbank who was still stunned and pissed that he had actually missed the ball dropping the first time ever.

Then we all started laughing as my MIL was bitching at the TV in spanish. . . I mean, we totally cracked up, falling on the floor because it was so funny. I didn't even need to be drunk to think it was fucking funny. She threw this whole party to break the curse and forgot one key detail. The only ones who saw the ball drop were Matt and Mari, who were hiding in the other room. For an hour after, we'd all keep humming the Law and Order theme. It was one of those totally classic moments that we'll laugh about forever and Christopher got it on video, which was even funnier. . .We had lots of fun, my MIL was pissed at us for a while with the teasing, but after a couple of glasses of champagne, got over it(she never drinks, that was all it took) and when we were all packing up the kids to leave she said, "Now, I'm going to watch my Law and Order." And didn't even realize what she was saying and we all started laughing again. I told her that she better, the least she could do was enjoy the fucking Law and Order.

I dunno . . . It felt like a good sign for some reason because we started the New Year laughing our asses off. . . And today Johnny was off and we played video games and had fun with him all day. It was SOOOOOO nice. We had a great new years and I have decided that if this year turns out to be awesome, we'll have to watch Law and Order next year.

I hope you all had a good one. . .
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