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My ideal New Year celebration is a small gathering of good friends in a cottage in the countryside. That's something I've only managed once - most of my friends are too spread out, or doing their own thing with other friends. So tonight finds me in Edinburgh, for the first time in four years. I'd been planning to go across town to see in the New Year with a couple of friends, but they have a greater liking for drunken crowds than I do, and I saw them last night anyhow. (Argh, they just rang to wish me a Happy New Year - apparantly there's 300 people having a ceilidh on the Mound, and the music volume just about took my ear out!)
I did go out at midnight, though, and I could hear the Street Party as soon as I stepped outside - from over a mile away! Arrived at the edge of Holyrood Park just as the fireworks were starting. They let them off from 7 hills, and I could see bits of 5 of them - pretty impressive, as always, with quite a spherical theme, but the ending could have been more synchronised. There were a few people milling about and we linked arms and sang Auld Lang Syne and wished each other a Happy 2005. So I wasn't completely alone, and glad for it.
Hmmm. I suppose a wee dram wouldn't go amiss.
Slainte!
Mmmmm. :)
I don't want to do a detailed review of 2004. Fandomwise I've added five one-shots to my FA archive, written about 7 chapters of Invictus (and posted 11). And created this LJ, of course, and am getting to know some beautiful people as a result.
Oh, and I acquired a snake-headed cane. ;)
In the rest of my life, I've been struggling to stand still. Not a lot has changed since a year ago. I hope that by next year I'll be in a new job, in a new part of the country (though I love my flat and I'll be sorry to leave it), and maybe even have someone to love and be loved by... well, maybe I'm asking for a miracle there, but without hope, imagination and action are impossible. I'd like to remake and strengthen links with friends old and new and, well, feel more in control of the day-to-day.
And I'm going to start the year by giving myself the gift of a good night's sleep.
Happy Hogmanay - and here's to 2005. :)
I did go out at midnight, though, and I could hear the Street Party as soon as I stepped outside - from over a mile away! Arrived at the edge of Holyrood Park just as the fireworks were starting. They let them off from 7 hills, and I could see bits of 5 of them - pretty impressive, as always, with quite a spherical theme, but the ending could have been more synchronised. There were a few people milling about and we linked arms and sang Auld Lang Syne and wished each other a Happy 2005. So I wasn't completely alone, and glad for it.
Hmmm. I suppose a wee dram wouldn't go amiss.
Slainte!
Mmmmm. :)
I don't want to do a detailed review of 2004. Fandomwise I've added five one-shots to my FA archive, written about 7 chapters of Invictus (and posted 11). And created this LJ, of course, and am getting to know some beautiful people as a result.
Oh, and I acquired a snake-headed cane. ;)
In the rest of my life, I've been struggling to stand still. Not a lot has changed since a year ago. I hope that by next year I'll be in a new job, in a new part of the country (though I love my flat and I'll be sorry to leave it), and maybe even have someone to love and be loved by... well, maybe I'm asking for a miracle there, but without hope, imagination and action are impossible. I'd like to remake and strengthen links with friends old and new and, well, feel more in control of the day-to-day.
And I'm going to start the year by giving myself the gift of a good night's sleep.
Happy Hogmanay - and here's to 2005. :)
