So before I lose the excuse of being able to write about New Year's resolutions, I better start writing about the weird superstitions I have about ringing the new year in. For as long as I can remember, I had always spent New Year's Eve with my family. It wasn't until I left to live in Texas that I was away from my family for that particular holiday. Although I wasn't around my family, I found myself still doing the same things I dreaded doing when I was younger. For instance, the house had to to be super clean, meaning you vacuumed, organized and dusted everything. Bills had to be paid. You had to do all your laundry, especially wash the sheets and towels. Basically, there shouldn't be some sort of 'to-do' list left to carry over to the new year. It was the same for what you were exactly doing at the stroke of midnight. Whatever you were doing at midnight or whatever you'd left lingering, you'd be taking care of that particular thing for the rest of the year. Call me weird or superstitious. I still believe in it.

This year, I went into the new year pretty honest about everything in my life. Actually, I fibbed to my parents about how I spent the new year, but what else is new. That's an ongoing obstacle until the day I'm married. I got the majority of my 'to-do's' done and I started off the year relaxing with a massage and a visit to the spa. I thanked God for helping me make it to the point I'm at now and told him I wouldn't take my blessings for granted. I reflected on my blessings - a great family and very supportive friends, an improved and more personal relationship with God, an unconditionally loving bf, a job I love coming to every day, a beautiful house over my head, cool housemates, a happier outlook on life...positive thoughts and optimism... I can go on forever but I don't want to beat a dead horse.

To summarize...
2002 was a horrible, negative year. I wanted it to be over and done with.

2003 started just as bad but got better gradually through the year.

2004 started happy and it's only getting better =)

Exercising my rights...finally

I know I said my next post would be about my New Years superstitions, but I think this takes a bit more precedence.

It's been almost 10 years now that I could have been exercising my right to vote... I was never a huge political person but with all the crazy things happening in the world currently as well as our oh so 'bright' president, I've decided it's finally time to register to vote. I've completed the first step of filling the online portion of it out and submitting it. Now all I need to do is wait for this registration card to come in the mail, sign it, and send it back...then it's official.

Happy New Year everyone! I know I'm a few days late but better late than never, right?

If you asked me right at new year's if I was starting the year off perfectly, there would have been no doubt in my mind that I was! If you ask me right at this currently moment, I might have a few extra grumpy words to say about it. Ha Ha.. backtrack to New Years Eve...

After working from home and getting things in order before the new year (the new year superstitions will probably be my next blog entry), Jorge picked me up, all ready for our lil New Year's excursion/adventure. We went to this cozy italian restaurant in North Beach called Ristorante Fior d'Italia. Jorge's really good friend's parents owned the place and he hadn't been there in almost 5 years he said. It looked like one of those restaurants you'd see in the movies where mob fathers would 'meet' to discuss the state of their 'families'. Talk about grub. Afterwards, my forgetful butt realized I had forgotten to charge my camera battery so we ran home real quick to charge the battery before heading out to Kingston's party in SF at City Hall. It was a formal affair so seeing Jorge all dressed up was too cute. Midnight came and being around Jorge's friends was so much fun- I know he hadn't seen them in such a long time and that he'd love partying with them. It was after that where it gets a little hazy ( i think the champagne kicked in.. ). I was trying to get a hold of my girl friends, who I was supposed to meet up with. With the rain and little bit of cell reception they could get, it ended up that we all couldn't meet up. *sad tine* I headed back to Berkeley and called it a night.

We stayed at a place called the Claremont Resort and started New Year's off with a bang at the spa. Spa treatments and massages have to be the best thing ever, especially if it's how you start the year off with! So, as I said before, if you asked me at that particular moment if I started it off perfectly I would have undoubtedly said YES!

If you ask me right now, I'd start grumbling because for the last two days, I've been sick, especially today. A ton of nyquil, tea, liquids, and everything else my mom's been bugging me about later, I am still all stuffed up watching Dirty Dancing and the special features on DVD (a Xmas gift I just opened). My mom's even got me all worked up about all the flu epidemic and pneumonia stuff out there... thanks mom. Hopefully I'll be better enough to work tomorrow - if not, working from home is always an option.