One of my cousins used to make variations of the same joke each New Year, including, "I haven't showered since last year!" and "I'm wearing last year's underwear!" Which pretty much sums up that cousin's personality and sense of humor. We were kids. I'm sure my cousin will make it again this year, though.

I figured I should have a new journal to cross over into the new year. I hope all of you feel that this year has been beneficial to you in some way. I'm not one for New Year's Resolutions, but if anyone wants to know, I'm just going to keep striving for the resolutions I've been making all-year-every-year, for years, and I hope it goes a bit better this time around. Maybe I can be more myself, stick up for myself more, and maybe I can continue on this writing streak; it keeps dying and leaving me in a bewildered slump, BUT the engine seems to have started, so to speak. I hope all of my friends are going to have the same sort of luck and fulfillment from their art.

Off to a party with my sexy European (Swedish, no less!) husband! Think of me at midnight, you wonderful people (you know who you are, I know it), because I will be thinking of you.