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CELEBRATION!!

It is New Years Eve and John has gone off to a movie and a meeting after that.

Franklin and I are staying home and I will have a frozen lasagne with salad for dinner.

When John gets home Franklin and I will be in or on our way to bed.

8 PM PST.

Before the new multicolored (is nothing sacred?) ball drops in Times Square.

Tomorrow we will have a no mail day again.

No gym

So we will compensate by actually going to a real movie theater to see the Depper sing in Sweeney Todd.

I am willing to put up with the popcorn stink, kids crying, people talking as well as ads and trailers to see this movie.

I imagine that it will do me in to put up with all this shit but nevertheless I am determined to see Johnny sing in this wonderful Sondheim musical.

Yes, I know it has been altered. I understand that Sondheim approved it all.

I know it is bloody.

But I prepped today by seeing the Johnny To film (see below).

Then we will come home for a walk with Franklin.

When that is over we will go off to an open house featuring chili as a nostalgic tip of the hat to cold New Years Days back east when hot chili was a really good idea as you suffered the coldness.

We are having high 60s and a lot of sun here for the weekend.

This has, perhaps, been the coolest winter that we have had since we moved here ten years ago. Eleven almost.

It is OK. We haven't had a foot of snow, a wind chill of zero or anything like it.

It is a good start to a new year.

And it is just another day.

Without mail.

Labels: holidays