Ah, one of
my favorite nights of the year. Not for the reason most people think; I’ve been
a teetotaler going on three years now. Besides, those days are long past. I’ve
been at Times Square in NYC for the ball drop a couple of times in the late 80s;
I’ve gotten dangerously smashed with friends at various friends’ houses a dozen
times or more since. One of my favorite memories is a New Years Eve about
twenty years ago. We were partying with two other couples. The two other
husbands were both named “Steve,” so I was the honorary “Third Steve” of the
night. While the womenfolk stayed upstairs drinking their wine and oogling the
newborns, the lads and I hung out in the garage, drinking hard liquor (having
moved on from beer), chain-smoking cigarettes, and – lifting weights under the
stars.
Tonight
will be much saner down here in latitude 38:08:30 Texas. It’s been a cool day
and a cooler night, falling to the low 40s at year’s end. Sunny, so the stars’ll
be out. We bought some TGI Friday snacks to toss in the oven later, and I’m
getting my year-end Hawaiian pizza in an hour. The ladies will be drinking
their mixed drinks. Little One is 20, and she’s fairly responsible, but I’ll
have to keep an eye on 16-year-old Patch. We plan on watching one of the “Rockin’
Eve” things around 10 pm. It’ll just be the four of us, which is just fine, as more
and more I take a philosophical view of the holiday.
2024 was a
successful year for me resolution-wise. I overcame my soda addiction, which
means I did not consume 25 or so cases of Diet Coke and Diet Dr Pepper over the
last twelve months and probably save something like $500. I also added two
habits of a spiritual nature, which I find beneficial. Since I had such a
productive experience, I’m looking to take on a more ambitious resolution:
Sugar-Free
in 2025.
Eek, the
very thought makes me tremble. 18 hours without something sugary in my veins and
my head starts aching and I get very growly. I quit sugar before, but never
longer than a week or ten days, and only two or three times. But the advantages
so far outweigh the addiction, and with my positive inertia from 2024, I
definitely think it’s doable.
More on
this later in 2025.
For now, have a Happy and Safe
New Years Eve all!
1 comment:
Good luck! Happy healthy 2025! 2024…out the door! 2025….we’re still alive!😘
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