Well, Happy New Year, everybody! I'm trying to figure out when I'm going to stop saying "Good riddance to (insert last year here)" every New Year's Eve. Seems like just when you think you've turned a corner and you have hope for the coming year, when you look back on it you just can't say it's been a good year (on so many levels). *sigh*

We spent the evening at B&B's for the annual New Year's get together. This year, the food was all appetizers (which we did for years in the past) instead of an actual meal like last year (steak and lobster! A little pricey!). We watched After the Thin Man on TCM. I had never seen any of the Thin Man movies, and this was a hoot! Then we started watching the New Year's coverage and spent the entire time slamming all of the revelers' choice of clothing. We couldn't find anybody who was dressed well - it was all a bunch of people under-dressing or... dressing in things that they shouldn't be caught dead in because of either 1) poor taste, or 2) body shape. Yech. Did our annual toasts at midnight and we left at about 1:15 this morning.

The drive home was uneventful. First off, we have never ever seen so many cabs in the Wrigleyville area compared to all of the years in the past. May have been because of the very mild weather just brought out a hell of a lot more people. The expressways and tollways were good - only one maniac driver that almost wiped out us, a van, and another car on the Northwest Tollway just west of 53. Bastard.

This morning, I'm a significantly groggy and in significant back pain (no idea why - could be because of the way I slept? or didn't sleep?). Stomach is all acidy. I'm just kicking back and watching the Tournament of Roses Parade without commercial interruption on HGTV. (Oh, jeez... I just saw Trista and Ryan go by on the FTD float - "Love Songs"...)