Happy New Year

And so the year finishes and a new one begins..

So what were my options on how to herald in the New Year...

People at work were talking about going to various people's houses. All the diving crew had their own plans... and no invite was extended to me despite them going round to one of their houses.

A friend invited me round to hers, but that involves a journey and a car (mute point).

And what about the other friends, one was working and finally the couple that I hang round with Mariella and Geoff asked if I wanted to go to the Courty (local slang for the Courthouse public house) - $70 for a ticket... so that was that.

So arrived at the Courty at 7.15 after madly rushing round like a blue arsed fly (not sure where that saying comes from). Mariella and Geoff were staying the night and the en suite bathroom had literally just been finished. So it was frantic hoovering, cleaning, dusting when I got back from work at 5.30. Me wondering why my Mr Fixit just hadn't finished off by taking out the debris, card board boxes and cleaned the new wall units.

The ticket was supposed to include food, but all was not boding well when I viewed a plate of prawns with a queue of 10 people leading to it. And that was only food that I saw all night. But what I did see a lot of was the free champagne which, of course, I had to get my monies worth!

Let's just say that after 12.00 my memory of events gets a little hazy.

12.00 found me sitting on the toilet. It wasn't planned - just that my bladder took me there at an unfortunate time and only realised whilst in mid flow. So what do I do....? At 11.59 I text my ex boyfriend to wish him Happy New Year and to say I missed him... NOOOOO!!! Yep! :

Three seperate messages (why didn't my brain just turn off after the first one).. but no.. I was in full flow and firing faster than an automatic rifle!

Each one getting steadily worse...

1. Hope you have a good one. Happy Birthday to Mel. Wish I was there! Happy New year! XX

2. Happy New Year

3. Miss You x

2.18 AM

Wish mel a happy birthday from me xpp
(not sure what the xpp was for.. probably a kiss and some drunken pp's added on for good measure)

Reply from him.7.03 am (which is an interesting time to text me back?) sounding pretty dead pan and not at all amused by my emotional ranting texting from earlier.

Will do. Hope your new year is a good one.

To be clear about this... with the benefit of clarity and soberness, yes I do miss him. But I made my decision for a reason and yearning for a type of relationship that he is unable to give me that will never change, so I still stand by the situation with no regrets.


In hindsight, it might have been semi subconscious to hide in the Ladies. There was a guy called Derek that was a little eerily into me saying 'I saw you here on Christmas Eve' and was hanging around me so it avoided any awkwardness in kissing him. I remember emerging and Mariella and Geoff wondering where I was so we did our Happy New Years then. After that, it now goes hazy... apparently Mariella and I danced and before I knew it we were back at my place sitting on the sofa!

Back of my mind is wondering if the December 2012 end of the Mayan cycle will effect plans for New Years Eve 2012! Strange to be welcoming in a year that has been earmarked by such uncertainty for the future.

Mayan End Age 12-21-2012

"An Apocalypse (Greek: “lifting of the veil” or “revelation”) is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted." — Wikipedia

"Both the Hopis and Mayans recognize that we are approaching the end of a World Age... In both cases, however, the Hopi and Mayan elders do not prophesy that everything will come to an end. Rather, this is a time of transition from one World Age into another. The message they give concerns our making a choice of how we enter the future ahead. Our moving through with either resistance or acceptance will determine whether the transition will happen with cataclysmic changes or gradual peace and tranquility. The same theme can be found reflected in the prophecies of many other Native American visionaries from Black Elk to Sun Bear."


So should be an interesting year ahead.....