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NYE & other thingies
Jan. 2nd, 2004 05:28 pmNew Year's was good, if quiet. We went to see Calendar Girls, and brought in the New Year together at home.
Calendar Girls was fun, I only really had a quibble with the ending, which just seemed to rushedly tie all the ends together, leaving me a little underwhelmed. But all in all it was great fun. For those unaware of the topic, it's based on a true story of some 50-something women who decide to pose nude for a calendar to raise money in honour of one of their husbands, for a sofa in the local hospital's relatives' room.
New Year's day was quiet, slept in, the usual :)
The other day I asked PreZ when he was going to take his karate back up again. He used to do it back in AU before we met, and when he was at his previous job he signed up again with a dojo in the city. At the time it didn't work out so well because classes were at like 6, and he wasn't working in NYC at the time, but near where we live and would have to leave quite early to make the classes on time. So after going a few times, that kind of petered out. Then of course he lost his job, which meant that personal expenditures like that were curtailed, and he hasn't been since. So I asked if he was going to start up again, because now he does work in the city, so that would be a lot easier. And then he tossed back the idea that maybe I should join up too, partly because it would be fun to do something like that together. Upside is that once he joked that if I joined karate with him, he'd join yoga with me. So currently I'm tossing up that idea. I'm unsure of whether I want to at the moment, though lord knows I could do with the exercise, which I think remains one of the eternal New Year's Resolutions together with 'eat better' and 'lose weight'.
This morning my dad called me from South Africa. It was good to talk to him, something I don't get to do often enough. Talked a bit about The Situation, which of course dominates altogether way too many conversations and emails I exchange with relatives and family friends. I hate how that's become such a blackhole that sucks everything towards itself and consumes conversations. Mid-January is Doomsday, when he goes back to Holland to see what the hell's going on, and what's salvagable... if nothing he's going to look at organising a new place for my brother's to live.
He also said this year he'd either come visit here or we'd go over there. I haven't seen him since April 2001, so seeing him would be very good indeed. It would also be cool if he organises for us to go over there, I'd love to see his new place. Plus it would most likely include a trip out into the bush, which would be very cool indeed. If we do go there rather than him coming here, it would kind of screw up tentative travelling plans we had for later this year, thanks to the fact that the US has this cruddy 2 week vacation thing. But seeing as that was looking like late November anyway, pushing that back a month or 2-3 to next January or February wouldn't hurt. But we'll see how things pan out... early days yet.
Calendar Girls was fun, I only really had a quibble with the ending, which just seemed to rushedly tie all the ends together, leaving me a little underwhelmed. But all in all it was great fun. For those unaware of the topic, it's based on a true story of some 50-something women who decide to pose nude for a calendar to raise money in honour of one of their husbands, for a sofa in the local hospital's relatives' room.
New Year's day was quiet, slept in, the usual :)
The other day I asked PreZ when he was going to take his karate back up again. He used to do it back in AU before we met, and when he was at his previous job he signed up again with a dojo in the city. At the time it didn't work out so well because classes were at like 6, and he wasn't working in NYC at the time, but near where we live and would have to leave quite early to make the classes on time. So after going a few times, that kind of petered out. Then of course he lost his job, which meant that personal expenditures like that were curtailed, and he hasn't been since. So I asked if he was going to start up again, because now he does work in the city, so that would be a lot easier. And then he tossed back the idea that maybe I should join up too, partly because it would be fun to do something like that together. Upside is that once he joked that if I joined karate with him, he'd join yoga with me. So currently I'm tossing up that idea. I'm unsure of whether I want to at the moment, though lord knows I could do with the exercise, which I think remains one of the eternal New Year's Resolutions together with 'eat better' and 'lose weight'.
This morning my dad called me from South Africa. It was good to talk to him, something I don't get to do often enough. Talked a bit about The Situation, which of course dominates altogether way too many conversations and emails I exchange with relatives and family friends. I hate how that's become such a blackhole that sucks everything towards itself and consumes conversations. Mid-January is Doomsday, when he goes back to Holland to see what the hell's going on, and what's salvagable... if nothing he's going to look at organising a new place for my brother's to live.
He also said this year he'd either come visit here or we'd go over there. I haven't seen him since April 2001, so seeing him would be very good indeed. It would also be cool if he organises for us to go over there, I'd love to see his new place. Plus it would most likely include a trip out into the bush, which would be very cool indeed. If we do go there rather than him coming here, it would kind of screw up tentative travelling plans we had for later this year, thanks to the fact that the US has this cruddy 2 week vacation thing. But seeing as that was looking like late November anyway, pushing that back a month or 2-3 to next January or February wouldn't hurt. But we'll see how things pan out... early days yet.
