HAPPY NEW YEAR my darlings!
i hope 2005 is as fantastic as 04.

so... i wanted, last night, to invite the class and stuff over impromptu for a new year's hanging-out session, but the parents vetoed because obviously i had to do homework rather than plan a sudden party.

but! i told them that even if they weren't letting me have people over, i wasn't going with them for anything because i really didn't want to. eventually i had chit and soph over (i was the refuge for the partyless) and we hung out and it was super chilled-out and gossipy and nice, and then at 11ish my dad picked us up to go to minty's because her parents were throwing their yearly party and chit was going home then anyway and it wouldn't hurt to stay there till midnight and a bit longer, for the countdown and everything. (except, of course, knowing social events, you can't just go and leave an hour later.) and it was an opportunity to wear my leather skirt which i haven't worn in about a year.

so we went. and BOY, can we say dull? because of the tsunami and stuff, it was supposed to be a 'sober' party - not for lack of alcohol, because what's a party at minty's without alcohol and drunk people? but sober in the sense, no loud music, no dancing - which essentially made it the most boring party on the planet. but, well, soph was there, and there was food and unfortunately i had to refuse the numerous offers of wine because my parents were there and my dad wants no daughter of his to be a drinker and i'll let him have his fantasy until i'm not living under his roof, and then minty took out her RoTK extended version. and we were sitting in front of her ultra-large plasma TV and getting increasingly sleepy and i think sophie even dozed off a little despite the volume being super high and you know, orcs yelling and swords smashing and armies marching. but it was extremely late by then and LOTR is just not something you can watch at 2 in the morning. atleast, i was really tired by then even though there was NO dancing. finally we left when it was past 230 i think..

and came home, soph STUDIED, i watched a bit of the OC until we both felt quite dead, and slept till about 10 this morning. and showered, dressed and stuff, and i took sophie to the temple! haha it was cool, i think she found it quite interesting. sort of. although she asked lots of questions which i couldn't answer because i just do whatever my mum does.. i have little knowledge beyond that. ran into millions of people there, which was quite annoying cos it's all small-talky. but again, atleast there was soph :) and soph ate temple food with her hands! i think it was, all in all, quite a novel experience.

and then we dropped her back and saw shirin walking into school - for orientation stuff i presume. poor people who have to hang around in school on the first day of the year.

have a good 2005!