hope everyone had a happy and safe new year’s celebration!
for my new year’s, bruno_boy‘s girlfriend tija threw a pre-party at 8 for some friends of hers (spelchec and festive and i attended as well), and then a little after 10 PM dave and tija and tom and michelle and i, along with four of tija’s friends (two of whom i had previously met at tija’s rock band party), we all headed over to dupont circle to another party thrown by some of tija’s friends (one of whom i had met at tija’s rock band party).
the second party was amusing since there were probably about 25-30 people in this tiny, one-bedroom apartment, and i was probably the only straight and single male there. i didn’t mind because at least then i didn’t really have to worry about anybody else chatting up jae, one of tija’s friends i thought was cute! bahahaha… dave said he’d see what he can find out about her from tija, and so now i need to interrogate dave to find out more, hahaha. another funny thing about that second party, even though the hosts were gay, they had a playboy magazine on the coffeetable. we asked one of the hosts “what’s with the playboy magazine”, and with a straight face he said “it’s for the articles!” i knew the articles were good, but that was the first time i’ve met someone who used that as a legitimate excuse for having the magazine around, hahaha…
the party was good, typical new year’s eve festivity with noisemakers and hors d’oeuvres and champagne at midnight. probably around 1:30 or so we all headed back out. dave was originally going to stay with tija, but since jae lives only about 2 miles away from my place, she gave dave and tom and michelle and me a ride back to dave’s and my apartment building so one of tija’s friends who had more to drink than we realized (she had been on a date earlier in the evening, apparently) could crash at tija’s instead.
new year’s day i stayed in, watched tv, did laundry. fun stuff.
on monday i went back home to go to the movies with mom and dad and anne; we went to see “the adventures of tintin”, and though it didn’t exactly follow the storyline of the book that it was representing, it did a good job of combining a few of the books to introduce the characters it needed to introduce and move the plot along. very good film!
while it’s not specifically a resolution, i want to try to watch more movies that are new to me this year. i set a goal of 300 new films in 2012, and i created a new twitter account (@fitzflix) to keep track of them all. my first film was a documentary on hitchhiking called “the forest prince and the pig man” that featured some of my dad’s photos when he took a road trip and hitchhiked across the country back in 1974 – he’s got a writeup all about his trip scanned in and posted at the end of that photo set. yesterday i watched a documentary on ron galella, a paparazzi photographer. even though i only gave that documentary 3 out of 5 stars, i still received this on twitter, bahahah:
work this week has been boring. not much to do, not until friday when the data i need posts to my database.
went home to visit today, partly because i had to pick up a present that feisty_fitz mailed to me and anne, but also to help mom out with her new ipad… and also to get some free dinner and a cake out of it, haha. i’d been finishing this leftover ham from christmas for the past week and a half, and after eating it for lunch today i declared i’d had enough ham for a while, and the way my stomach was grumbling about it i could tell that my stomach had enough ham for a while too. tonight’s dinner was probably going to be peanut butter sandwiches, but anne reminded me i had to come home to pick up my present, and she also owed me a cake as a bribe (a month or so ago i escorted her to a concert where she was meeting her friends, and i was owed a cake as remuneration). thankfully, dinner was lasagna, i got my cake, helped mom out with her ipad, picked up the book kelly sent me (thanks kelly!), and also got a pair of slippers out of it (mom had ordered a pair of slippers for dad for christmas, but they didn’t fit, so mom’s ordering him a new pair. they were going to give grandaddy slippers for christmas too, but these didn’t fit him either, so they’re ordering him a new pair as well. they gave me the slippers intended for dad instead, and they fit me perfectly. insert cinderella joke here. funny thing, i was going to pick up my slippers from home today anyway!).