Quite the New Year!

I can't even guess how many years it's been since I was in a tiki lounge bar thing. So, that's where we were this afternoon to celebrate a 40th wedding anniversary (and no, I'm not going to admit how old I was when they got married). So we had an odd assortment of umbrella drinks while we were waiting for the happy couple. Unfortunately for them, and perhaps for us, we had gone through a couple of rounds by the time they got there (mixed signals or directions you could say). This meant that we were ALL participating in the kareoke that was running on the screens. Let me go back to the beginning of the day...

We watched Alfred Hitchcock's absolute best of all time, "Rear Window" starring the first ever Barbie doll, Grace Kelly. If I could wiggle my nose and come back looking like someone else, it would be her, minus the smoking part and definitely the driving off the cliff part. It is really amazing how suspenseful a movie can be with literally no action or change of scenery. The entire thing took place looking out of one apartment house "rear window".

From there we went to tiki for a few hours, a fine time was had by all who enjoyed themselves. That would be everyone who is not currently sick, about half of those invited.

Upon my return, another one of my favorites was on while I was firing up the PC, "One Fine Day" with George Clooney & Michelle Pfieffer (whatever happened to her anyway)? It's one of my favorite 2-star movies of all time and I love the music. You've got marbles up the nose, LSD at the playground, lost little girls following cats home and chocolate sundaes down the front of your suit. Who could ask for more?

Now, it's Rock Hudson (talking to himself - his name cracks me up), Doris Day and Tony Randall in Pillow Talk. Would you look at those minks, ah the days of killing animals for stylin'. And yes, the ultimate in bachelor padding. This day is really jam packed with fun stuff. It's truly unfortunate since I really should be putting Christmas decorations away. Oh well, they'll still be there tomorrow.

There is football, football, football running on the HD tv upstairs meaning this is truly a haven down here in the basement. It's warmer and the chair is much more comfortable. It is depressing though to think the weekend is almost half over. I need to accomplish a heck of alot more tomorrow than I did today. Sometimes though, I just need to play.

So, a quick update on how I'm doing with my resolutions:
1) I have scheduled a half day off next Wednesday when we are going out to lunch with relatives we rarely get to see. This will be the first time they've met baby boy who is now 3 months old! I've scheduled the following Friday off to spend with my parents at their place. I'm planning to take 3-4 days off in early May to take my mom & dad down to Las Vegas to visit my sister and her family. So, so far so good.

2) I have not yet called a piano shop to find a piano teacher so that has to happen this week. Plus, I have to put away all the holiday stuff to even be able to get at it.

So, I guess I'll quit this pointless pontification and proceed with packing all the pretty party pieces.