Happy New Year

Another year...2006. We're behind on a lot of things. If you watch "Back to the Future 2" we're supposed to be in levitating cars and dehydrated pizzas by 2015 so they better get moving with the inventions damnit.

New Year's eve has always been somewhat of a depressing day for me. It's like the day before all the Christmas decorations come down and the signal for everyone that the Holidays are over..."go back to your normal obnoxious selves". Sure...people get grumpy during the season when they're shopping and such, but at least it's for a good cause. The rest of the year they are just grumpy...just because.

What do people do today? I've heard different things. Growing up my parents just whipped up a big shabu-shabu feast at their house and we really didn't do much. The day AFTER new years sucked because that's when dad made us throw out the Christmas tree (it's still good for another 2 months!!!) and mom made us do all the house cleaning.

I remember a friend once told me a superstition that you're not supposed to do anything on the first day of the year because that's going to forecast what you'll be doing for the rest of the year. So I guess the reasoning is that if you do nothing on this day, you'll end up doing nothing. And that's a good thing I suppose. No wonder I spent most of my life cleaning and dumping trees.

I've heard more then one person say the day before the new year you should get everything in order. Clean the house, take care of loose ends. I think this is an Asian thing. I can see that I suppose...having everything in shape for the new year is like clearing the plate to take on all the new stuff for the coming year.

I guess that's what I'm doing today..... yippee.

2005 was a pretty wild year looking back.... left a long-term job, started my own business, visited a country I've never been to before, climbed out of possibly one of the lowest points in my life, and despite the fact it's a strange long-distance thing, I met someone pretty special.

2006 is going to be preeeeeeeeetty wild.... I'll be on pins and needles heading up towards Sept as that will mark my 1st anniversay for my business. A lot of businesses fail in the first year they say right? Well, I gotta do my best to get past this shaky 1st year then. One baby step at a time.