new years stuff

Happy New Year everyone. There's many ways to celebrate this day, and I'm trying to incorporate all of them. first, there's football. If you don't like football, there's good food and an excuse to drink beer during the day. There's also some good television (Beverly Hills Cop-still can't get over Eddie Murphy's laugh), grey weather (the paper promises snow today), and food at the folks. Also took time to read the paper and make myself a lunch out of cans-canned ravioli, canned split pea soup, and well, bottled beer from Deschutes Brewery. Lovely.

I also had the opportunity to do some yoga today and that counts as my physical activity as much as anything else. It's too damned cold out there and the early night fall makes TV, eats, and the internet the best way to spend my time. Maybe I'm just lazy-not nursing a hangover either. Pretty much stayed sober last night except for a few drinks with girlfriend's parents and a Mike's Hard Lemonade around midnight. Went downtown but the lines into clubs were long and what's the point, really? I repeat, too damned cold for being out of doors.

Today's yoga class we turned up the Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and other yoga-esque tunes and played around a little. Upon Shivasana, or relaxation at the end of class, Michael the teacher asked us to maybe think about what parts of our 2004 we want to leave behind and what we want to happen in 2005. For me, I stayed in that meditative posture for a good long time.

It's pretty interesting to reflect back on the year that's been and try to remember what things you were thinking at this same time last year.