Happy New Year !!!!

I realize that these wishes are a little late, but better late then then never I always say. I do hope that everyone had a safe and wonderful New Years Eve. As I have grown a little older I have come to the conclusion that New Year's Eve is not as fun as it used to be. When I was younger (before I got married) it seemed that before Christmas we always had plans for New Years. Everyone always knew what they were gonna do, where they were gonna do it and who they were gonna do it with. This year we did not have plans until the afternoon before and even then I was not sure because I had to work. I remember New Years Past hanging out at someone's house with as many friends as we could gather. I remember drinking a few (or a couple more), playing cards, listening to music, playing hide and seek, snowball fights and just having fun waiting until midnight. Once midnight hit there would be cheers, kissing, hugging, a couple tears, calls home to the folks and someone stripping down to their knickers and running up and down the street yelling. Ah, the good old days. Once that was all out of the way the only task left was to find a quite spot out of the way to crash (pass out) and wait until morning and the fog to lift. This year I tried to relive the magic. I worked until 4pm then headed home to have a couple shots, pick out some CDs, laod the kids into the van and we all headed off to our friends. A party we did have. There were drinks, tears, walks in the rain (with the dog of course), watching the kids play, listening to music, playing the Disney scene it game and then it happened. I can honestly say that this is the first New Years for this to happen to me. Please keep in mind that I was once the so called life of the party and recapturing that title is hard work. Please keep in mind that I really do not look this bad on a regular basis, this was not one of my finer moments and please remove young people from the room before viewing the following.
Like I said not my finest moment, but hey. Just to let you all know this picture was taken at 11:15pm. Sad, I know. For those of you wondering yes this is my new Toronto Maple Leafs shirt that I got for Christmas