Bling in the New Year

Celebrating Christmas all year in 2011.

Well, well, well. Bring on the new year. Here it is. I am gonna milk this year for all it's got. I'm not going to allow this year to fly by without me noticing. This year, I'm keeping track.

I need to get my business in order this year. I'll have a lot on my plate. Luckily there are a couple more weeks before school starts back up. For now, I'll work, try to get writing jobs, and continue to have general good time before classes begin.

I had the luxury of celebrating the new year in a mansion, courtesy of a relative of a friend. It went something like this:

Who can resist petite pumpkin pie?

Bottoms up.

Bling in the new year: 2011.

2011: C'est La Vie

This post is pretty much for my own future reference, but feel free to keep tabs on your life too. I'll update this throughout the year.

Last year (aka 2010) went by way too fast. What did I do? What books did I read? What movies did I see? Who were my friends? What happened?!

This year, I am keeping track.

Films:

1. Going the Distance
2. G.I. Jane 
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 
4. Waiting for Guffman 
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop 
6. The Pianist 
7. Nell 
8. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
9. Chaos Theory
10. La Vie En Rose 
11. The Queen of the Damned  
12. Kim Cattrall: Sexual Intelligence
13. Manhattan
14. Black Hawk Down
15. There's No Business Like Show Business
16. The Fountain
17. Beauty & the Briefcase

TV Series:

1. 17 Kids & Counting
2. 18 Kids & Counting
3. Dexter: Season 1

Literature:

1. The Teachings of Buddha *work in progress
   

Hours Slept:

97


Hours Worked:

40

last updated: Jan. 17, 2011 @ 12:49 p.m.

2010: Scandal, Divorce, Death

The year is winding down. Only a couple more days until next year.

2010 came and went. I celebrated the new year at a small party. The moment of truth (12:00 a.m.) passed rapidly and before I knew it, I woke up and it was 12:00 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2010. Twelve hours of the brand new year went by as quick as lightning, now it's Dec. 30.

2010 was filled with scandal, divorce and death.

Scandal:

• Tiger Woods, Jesse James, and Tony Parker infidelity. 
• John Edwards fathers child with mistress.
• Four Loko reformulated. No more caffeine, kiddos. 
• Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen act stupid.
• Katy Perry's boobs on Sesame Street.
• Miley Cyrus and the bong.

Divorce:

• Courteney Cox and David Arquette
• Sandra Bullock and Jesse James
• Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren 
• Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman
• Eva Longoria and Tony Parker

Death:

• Elizabeth Edwards succumbs to cancer.
• 7.0 Haiti earthquake damages equal $7.2 billion to $13.2 billion with a death toll from 200,000 to 250,000 according to the Inter-American Development Bank.   
• Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada and tragic death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the 21-year-old Georgian luge competitor who died in a training crash.
• "Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 - the deadliest year in more than a generation," according to the Washington Post.

Obviously, this isn't everything, but if I'm missing something super important, let me know!

Let us toast to 2011. May this be the year of  love, peace, and positivity (hopefully). 

Tis the Season...

It's a week into December. Soon it will be Christmas. This is my favorite time of year. Everything and everyone is so festive; you can practically see the extra pep in people's steps. But eventually Christmas will be over.

Soon it will be January 2011. I'll have to start writing "2011," but as per usual, I will forget about the new year and continue writing "2010" until mid-February. Eventually the time will come when it sinks in that it is a new year. By this time, we will be two months in and I will then freak out that we are already 1/6 through the new year.

Time goes by so fast. It really does. I can't believe it. 2010 is almost over. This semester almost over. I'm getting older, you're getting older, everyone is aging. I remember when it was the Millennium and it was cool for babies to be born in 2000. Well, now those babies are 10 years old. They're getting older too.