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bringing in the new year

I've got a bunch of spare time as well as a spare computer this afternoon, which means quality time with the internet.

Internet, I <3 you.

The weekend has been going pretty good. Friday I popped in on Steve at work to meet him for the first time.

He is now officially the first online friend I have met in real life. People don't just 'happen' to be in or driving through Alaska, so I don't often get that opportunity. It was pretty awkward and we didn't have much time to stare at each other.

But what he doesn't know (not until he reads this, anyway) is that my brother and I stood across the way staring into GameSchtuff for a good twenty minutes working up my nerve. He, on the other hand, had no time to prepare.

Knocking others down always boosts my self-esteem.

I do have more facial features than one eye and half an ear, and though Steve is most definitely not a gaggle of pre-teen girls in pink, I cannot vouch for what and/or who he may have working overtime in his home.

That night I caught the Parade of Lights (which, incidentally, was no parade) and a crappy color-coded fireworks display downtown. We were planning on checking out an alcohol-free dance, but decided to pass.

How much fun would an event be if we kept referring to it as "a dance with grumpy people who wished they were drinking?"

Reminder to self: Buy a silver flask to tuck into a garter belt to tease the grumpy ex-drunks.