flying high, now

Sunday, dec. 31, 2006   |   0 comments

This new year is off to a spectacular start, what with last night’s champagned countdown amidst so many of my well-dressed friends at Adam and Julia’s, and then too many homemade blueberry pancakes this morning, followed by Sandra‘s good luck soup this afternoon, with a comfortable viewing of one of my all-time favorite movies in between. And then Marco, Jill, and I finished off this lazy first day of the new year with ten rounds of Rocky, yow.

Welcome 2007, I greet you with open arms and a deep, sloppy, chin-chaffing french-style kiss, the kind that barrel-rolls all the way down your throat and doesn’t stop until tickles your littlest toes. This is our year, I can feel it! Especially since both Marco and I managed to burn through a bunch of last-minute misfortune in the final days of 2006: he erroneously washed his cellphone on the sturdy cotton cycle while we were in San Diego, and then he bought an emergency replacement phone only to discover that it’s actually a knock-off and thus unable to sanely mesh with T-Mobile’s voicemail system (instead of a chime and a sensible little icon, now each voicemail is heralded with three text messages, each announced with ultra-loud, vibrating fanfare) and full of interface typos (“dialling”?); meanwhile, I paid to have my favorite boots fixed — the hard plastic form at the heel had worked itself through the lining of one boot and was cutting holes in my stockings and also foot — only to discover that I’d sicced the bootmaker on wrong boot. And then I left my favorite new jacket in Los Angeles! Luckily nice Sophia is mailing it back to me, so that’s not officially bad news (even though there have been at least three occasions in the past week that I’ve bitterly wished I could wear it, BITTERLY), but still it speaks to a general spazziness that I am very much hoping is done and gone now that Double-Oh-Seven is here, a year that I’m relying on to be more witty, sharper of mind, and far better dressed than klutzy (but still lovable! last year was very good to me!) 2006.