felice anno nuovo

Today is New Year's Day, my always-favorite holiday...favorite beyond even thanksgiving or christmas. New Year's, where everyone is given a blank, clean sheet of paper and fresh pencil and a brand new year to start with. It doesn't matter what's happened the year before - all is swept clean and you are birthed into the new year innocent and naive and hopeful and new. Yah! Your chance to forget past transgressions and mistakes and pinpoint a new beginning point to measure against. Boom! All is forgiven and forgotten. How can you not love a holiday like that?

Here are my official wishes for you all:
May your year of 2006 be happy, becoming, fulfilled, gratified, providential, festive, and fortunate. (I love thesauri)

We got back from our vacation to Texas just a few hours ago. You wanna see?



We saw this guy while fishing on White Rock Creek, just after swimming. (kidding about the swimming).

As always, I had a wonderful time visiting my parents and extended family and went away feeling happy and loved and wishing this kind of vacation could happen more often. We came home to a very happy kitty cat (to be let back inside and allowed to lounge on stomachs of his peeps again), a messy house cluttered with the fun of christmas morning, a tabletop full of bills, and a calandar where we're right up at the top ready to start fresh. I've got a year of skiing, baseball, vacations, research, friends, exercise, love and fun lined up. Stay tuned...