Let’s all stay up to midnight and sing auld lang syne then :-) Out with the old - and the old has been good. A quick google search tells me that “for auld lang syne” is “for times gone by” in Scottish. Makes sense then to celebrate the arrival of a new year with friends to recollect times gone by.
What are the times this year that I wish to recollect the most? My top things to remember are:
- Sailing in Greece with 26 amazing friends
- Lying in a field full of buttercups on the most beautiful summers day
- Producing some video shorts for Greenbelts’ Last Orders caberet show
- Pulling together the sound, lights and quiz for a superb weekend away in Folkestone with my church
- Taking the photos of my friends wedding (never again mind!)
- Going on my first real stag do dressed in a healthy amount of tweed
- Sifting through stuff at Snoopers Paradise in Brighton
- Another fake Christmas with my university family
- Meeting so many new people and getting to know some amazing individuals
It’s also been a bit of a hard year in some ways - work has been crazily busy (although in a good way for the most part), relationships have gone from good to bad to worse and back to good again, my passion for video and photography has continued to bubble away without really going anywhere new.
What a year for a new year - sings Dan Wilson of Semi-sonic fame (I’m now blatently stealing from Jude). Go and check out the lyrics on her blog (she’s got a link to a site you can download the song from - which I recommend, it’s wonderful). I happily resound with the lyrics he has written. I hope I remember last year with a benign fondness - not wanting it back, but treasuring it for what it was.
I’m actually sitting in the living room of a house in Swanage where I’ve just spent the last 19 hours in the company of lots of lovely people. We’ve stuffed cream teas into our mouths, walked around town searching for fancy dress costumes (with a tube station theme), read papers, listened to music, tidied, cooked, dinner partied, danced, danced, danced and then came back and cooked cheese on toast and crumpets. Not a bad way to see in the new year - up there with the best in fact. :-)
Happy new year to you - I wish you all the very best.
Sounds like a good new year. :)
I have much the same feelings towards 2006 I think. It was good but it is also good to keep moving. Hope all is going exceedingly well in your preparations.