Well, dear readers, might I just say HAPPY NEW YEAR? Might I just shout HAPPY NEW YEAR to the high heavens? Might I just say WELCOME 2012? I might, I can, and I have! This year is flying by, like a gazelle with a whoopee cushion. And before I go one word further, may I just also say that it is my fervent hope, wish, and prayer that 2012 and the month of January will be a month and year filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful.
I spent the final day of 2011 relaxing and not doing much of anything. Oh, I got up, I did the four-mile jog, I had a telephonic conversation with a singer, I had a turkey sandwich and fries for my meal o’ the day, I picked up one package and no important envelope (and wrote an e-mail about it, since I obviously won’t be picking it up until Tuesday now), wrote a song for episode five of season two’s Outside the Box, did some work on the computer, and then sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched the final two Maigret movies in box set two. The first of them was yet another superb film with great performances. I must say, the casting director gets a full title card to himself and follows the main cast in the front titles, and it is well deserved. The second film wasn’t quite up to the best of them, but was still very enjoyable.
I went to Gelson’s and got a few ham slices from the deli, came home and ate them as my evening snack. Then I took a really long and hot shower, which is something I like to do before I do my yearly thing that I do on New Year’s Eve. That felt really good and did exactly what I wanted it to do. Then I thought a bit about the new book, then we celebrated the East Coast New Year’s, and then I just played right here at our annual New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Bash, which was lively and fun and filled with merriment and mirth and laughter and legs.
It is now about ten-thirty as I write these here notes, so I’ll stop now, do my yearly New Year’s Eve thing in about forty minutes, and then I’ll be back to watch some balls drop on the West Coast and to celebrate a brand spanking New Year – 2012!
I’m back from doing my yearly New Year’s Eve thing. It always feels really good to do it. And now, it’s a mere thirty minutes to 2012. I really am hopeful it will be a bountiful year in terms of health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get these here notes posted so I can get a good night’s beauty sleep and wake up rarin’ and ready to greet the New Year!
Today, I shall hopefully arise after a good night’s sleep. I’m hoping to be up by nine and after I’m fully awake I shall start work on a new book. I’ll try to write at least five pages today, but I’m thinking it would be really great to do more than that. I’m usually slow at the very start of the writing process, so I probably won’t do much more than the five, but it will get me on the road and then hopefully it will be clear sailing from there. I’ll also do the four-mile jog, and then at two I shall be on my way to a New Year’s Day party thrown by our very own Barry Pearl and his ever-lovin’ Cindy. Last year Barry was out of town and I ended up having a little gathering at my home environment and invited a few of the Barry regulars. It will be nice to have the party where it belongs and there are always interesting and nice folks there, several of whom have become good friends. I’ll probably stay there around two hours, then come back home and do some more writing. Then I’ll probably watch a motion picture on Blu and Ray and/or DVD.
Tomorrow, I will, of course, write, the helper will come by and pick up invoices and ship stuff (we’ve had quite a few invoices come in over the holiday), and I have a little work to do on the presentation the East Coast singer is doing in a week or so. I’m sure I’ll jog, I’m sure I’ll eat something light but amusing and I’m sure there will be other things that need doing. Tuesday we have our first Kritzerland rehearsal for our first show in our new venue, Vitello’s, but I’ll also be writing every day and hopefully picking up packages and the errant and truant important envelope, then on Thursday we have our second rehearsal. I also have two sets of liner notes to write and a contextual commentary to write for the Vitello’s show. We have our stumble-through on Saturday and our show on Sunday, so a very busy first week of the New Year.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, begin a new book, do the four-mile jog, attend a party, write some more, and then relax and watch a motion picture. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland where I shall dream sweet dreams and awaken to a new month and a New Year that will hopefully be filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful.