It's been an insane decade to say the least. I am glad to say that I survived the Oh-Oh's (My self appointed nickname for the last decade).
I can remember the Holiday Party I went to in 2000. It was my mom's friends house. There were about 10 kids my age there- no one I knew and/or liked. I fell asleep before midnight, and by the time I woke up- the millennium had appeared without noticeable change in my life. It was a shitty way to welcome such a milestone. But I survived, I suppose.
I made it through middle and high school, obsessions with Backstreet Boys and Eminem. Movie crazes like Finding Nemo and Star Wars. The Twilight and Harry Potter sagas. The Y2K meltdown. The twin towers attack. The wars. The peace. The familial drama and the transitions from middle to high school to college. I survived! So there's something.
I could not have rang in the 10's (that one needs work) better. Alex came down and picked me up in Connecticut, where I had been staying. I got to show him a little taste of CT life (like the Brass Mill Mall! Ooooh!) and got to give him his amazing present that I have been talking about for weeks.
The magical present? A glass pineapple. See, he has a strange obsession with pineapples (I do not question such things), and one of the first nights we hung out- before we became an "item" as my mom likes to say- he told me about this glass one he really wanted. Acquiring said pineapple would require possible school expulsion, so I instead got him an imitation. The gift went over well, I'm happy to say. As far as I know, it is still sitting in the coffee cup holder in his car- which is fine with me. I like knowing it's there.
We headed to Poughkeepsie, NY, to go to our friend Mike's house. It was an amazing evening. We drank, ate tons of food (filet mignon? yes please!), hung out in the hot tub, and were just generally merry. The group was reunited, and it felt good. I loved being surrounded by people who cared about me, and with no B.S. It was so simple, so easy, so right.
Sadly, we separated the next morning. A trip to a local diner completed a fantastic New Years. After a few hours of dawdling, we parted ways. It was sad, but it made me so excited for next semester. Everything is so solid right now. It feels good
So I'm ready for the 10's. I'm ready to graduate college. To see where my love life goes. To see if Lady Gaga goes the way of Britney Spears as far as mental breakdowns go. To see if we can survive 2012.
I'm ready. I started this one off right. :)
Ahem. Lady Gaga is awesome and will not have said mental breakdown.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I remember the 2000 New Year's. I thought the world was going to end and we made a jello mold that spelled out 2000. I was at my grandparents' house with my cousins. Super lamesauce.