Okay, so I had a GREAT New Year's Eve/New Year and I hope you did too.   Since I know you're DYING to know what I did that was so special, I'll tell you.

I was in a bad mood all day on New Year's Eve.  Just not happy.  One of those days.  But I had a couple parties to go to, little friendly affairs with dear friends, so I made those little cheese thingies that I always take to parties where you're supposed to take something and went out the door.  Long story short, I ended up having a fantastic time playing Apples to Apples with super-cool people, watching the ball drop, then heading up to the rooftop of a 5-story old apartment building in Koreatown with a 270-degree view of the city. 

The entire city was celebrating.  We could see large fireworks displays in several directions - okay, we could see PARTS of large fireworks displays, at least.  But all over town people were setting off their own fireworks, bottle rockets, firecrackers, even the random flare.  Even with the fog you could see people celebrating the new year for miles - and it went on for at least half an hour or 45 minutes before we went back downstairs.  You could just feel millions of people celebrating at once and I was so grateful to be in a city to experience that.  I love Los Angeles, I truly do.  It was an incredible feeling.

Hooray for good friends and a new year.    And all y'all that I didn't get to celebrate with - I miss you guys.