things i got for new year's eve:

1. quality time with quality people (chris, catherine, laura, kevin, and candyce).
2. a mug of wassail (a spiced apple drink that hails from the czech republic).
3. three text messages (generic).
4. two phone calls from far away friends.
5. three phone calls from friends "pretending" to be drunk.
bonus! one apology call from one of the aforementioned friends
for calling me a "motherfucker".
6. a burnt thumb (after one of the sparklers that i was playing with spewed a chunk of fire onto my pants and i tried to put it out with my bare hand).

7. a sense of relief that a new year was starting.