January 2, 2013

• What I did on NYE

  Once again and perhaps for the final time as i’m slightly pushing it on the 2nd already…HAPPY NEWYEAR

  So here is how my 31st 2012 and beginning of 1st 2013 went:

   

  Oh dear my memory is already fading for the morning of the 31st…errm I think I woke sometime around either 8am or 10am, might even have been 7:30am.

  As is usual when my bro has gotten up early to head off and hang out at a stables he’s been helping out at. I stagger through and get my machine on ready to get on with work…or most likely various social networks first then work

  Then teeth and splash my face with the bare minimum of ice cold tap water :S

  After that I got on the PC and responded to various messages, comments and other random stuff until my dad finally got up and I could start thinking about breakfast.

  With breakfast we have been listening to the Dune books on audio so far we are on The God Emperor and have been blowen away by the writing ability of Frank Herbert. So there was about 40 mins of that with toast and plenty coffee.

  Then back on the system for more computer stuff, pretty sure I chatted with some folks for a while too.

  Hours passed as they have a habit of doing and eventually my bro and mum came home and we all settled in for a nice quiet NewYears eve. There was plenty good food, though I can’t really recall what it was o.O and more importantly a good full glass and a bit of mulled wine which was lovely and followed up with more of the same wine, not mulled but with some added suger (it wasn’t very good wine -_-) during all this we watched a large amount of the tv show Malcolm in the Middle, which has HUNDREDS of episodes so we just kept going egged on by my dads addictive TV watching style

  Eventually about an hour from midnight we got tired of endless MITM and me and my bro headed upstairs to try something different. He vanished into his iDevice addiction and I got into Hitman Blood Money to bring in the new year while assassinating people :/

  Fortunately my brother noticed the time and with only half an hour to spare he suggested we do something better than this and off we went out into the cool, breezy but bright night. Just across from our house and road there is a hill, lovingly called ‘Mighty Mountain’ by us, since it was might when we were small and you still can’t get up it without running out of breath.

  Atop this ‘mountain’ we lit a small but effective fire (with some smoke eating and struggle due to the wind) and there we sat with a couple of wheat beers surrounded by the quiet moon bright landscape as midnight drew closer wearing our Steve Zissou Intern hats

  Then with only 5 mins to spare we heard the call of our dad and spotted that both my mum and dad had come out to join in. So I rushed off and checked my mum was okay coming up then grabbed my dads Zissou hat (got to complete the team and ran back up the hill, almost killing myself -_-

  And just in time at the strike of 00:00 we were all there, on our little hill lit by the moon and a tiny but comforting fire

  It was really very lovely, being able to sit in such wonderful peace and quiet with the people I am closest to in my life and welcome in another year. Esspecially a year I hope to be one of change for the life I’ve always known.

  

  Sorry for the poor quality of images, but the light the next day was bad.

  

  After a few hours up on the hill the fire died and we wandered down, my parents went off to visit an elderly neighbour and we headed in to listen to a few tracks of music.

  Including this one:

  Then at somewhere around 1am we headed to sleep

  And that was my welcome into 2013 it was quiet and not really that eventful but I really loved it

  

   

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