Thursday, December 22, 2005

Everybody's Working For The Weekend

except for me, 'cause it looks like I have the Christmas weekend off. Yay. I am however, working the next weekend, for New Year's Eve, til midnight. hmm. How strange. Maybe I can get someone to switch with me...

I remember when we were kids New Year's Eve meant more to us than Christmas. Christmas consisted of opening presents, going to church and spending a quiet day at home after taking pictures. But New Year's Eve was an EVENT. We looked forward to going to someone else's house or preparing our house for the arrival of people. Together we would usher a new year in together with everyone we cared about.

It was the only party where it was okay that no one showed up until 8 or 9 at night and where it was okay that they stayed until 4 in the morning, laughing and singing and dancing.

Then the next day was spent watching the Twilight Zone marathon.

It was great to get your fill of odd and scary things on the very first day of the new year. I never got why the TZ marathon ran but it is a tradition. Then later I'd make my new year's resolutions more tangible by writing them down in my journals or on a piece of paper.

Yah, those were the good ole days.

Me.

p.s. this just came into my head while I was typing this, but do some of you remember a few years back we all went to A.C. and ate at a restaurant with all the families and we actually got the parents to play telephone. haha. We would all tell our mom and dad, across the table, not to ruin the game, and they'd "pass it on". That was awesome and extremely hilarious.
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i liked christmas eve. i didn't like christmas day. I didn't like anything about new years eve or day. new years signaled the start of school and end to the december holiday season and an end to christmas cheer.

and as a vegetarian once put it: "meat is murder, savor the taste of death"

2:48 PM
Michael "Paz" Pascua said...

Do you remember that telephone we did with the little jelly packet that mysteriously changed from grape to peach flavors? Now that's how telephone works.

10:40 PM
Anonymous said...

info tidbit:

I heard that "the pill" is taken for 21 days and then a placebo is taken for 7 days and then the cycle is repeated.

the reason? so that during those 7 days there is fake period to simulate a natural cycle. there is some bleeding but it is due to withdrawal from the hormone pills and not due to shedding the uteran lining like in a real period.

it was put in place by the inventor of the pill so that it would seem acceptable to the catholic church due to its simulation of a natural cycle - but it wasn't accepted.

they are now coming out with a daily dose - no more 7 day placebo - pill that will end any trace of a period. no tender breasts, pms, or bleeding.

but i'm not sure if the current 7 day placebo ones cure the tender breasts and pms problem.

i also don't know if there are any bone density issues with taking an everyday pill.

1:24 AM
Anonymous said...

oh and another item in the "against" camp is that the system won't get "cleaned out". a bit of what gets put up there may stay up there - including bacteria.

and one for the "in favor" camp is that in the modern age, women are having waaay more periods than they would have in earlier times. one reason is that all the chubby girls (or ones affected by hormones from the environment) are having periods a lot sooner. it was historically around 16 but now it's at 11ish.

1:29 AM

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