Dear Diary
If I'd ever felt weird landing into the strange hands of a new month, now I feel completely surreal having crossed into 2012. Basically, it means, I am a year older, there will be new challenges ahead, and I need to remember to write my dates correctly.
I am unsure if the Mayan calendars ending at 2012 signifies the end of the world, or because they simply could not foresee that far beyond their time, and decide to stop creating days that they believe could not exist. Live life to the fullest, as though today were the last. Good deeds to be done, revenge to be sought, and dreams to be attained, leave no regrets.
Christmas gifts were precious - a Blackberry Torch phone, a book on Marie Antoinette, a Braun Buffel limited edition maroon wristlet, an assortment of earrings, perfumes from Elizabeth Arden, skincare products and expensive chocolates. Thank you dearies, I cherish them all.
I was debating to spend New Year's Eve clubbing, welcoming 2012 with a blast, or to spend a quiet New Year's Eve with family, silently entering the realms of a brand new year with the steps of a slow dance. I chose the latter, spending it with mon beau's good-looking family having a cosy meal and sharing 3 bottles of red wines with two other men (started with Pinot Noir, then Shiraz, and ending with Cabernet Sauvignon as a nightcap). Fun, but without the annoying jostle and touches of weird, sticky strangers in noisy clubs.
Oh, I just enjoy red wine very much. While I could get pleasantly buzzed from red wine overdose at night, I realize that one can't get hangovers from reds, no matter the amount consumed. Unlike hard liquors or beers, in which the "high" obtained may be fun in the night, feeling mellow and worries-free after consumption, makes me want to die when morning comes. Send me a crate of reds, someone?
Now that the year has ended, what do I Appreciate about 2011?
(i) hitting my targets despite the lack of efforts at work this year
(ii) visiting most of the restaurants that crossed my mind at some point in time
(iii) the vacations both with mon beau and with friends
(iv) character reform (albeit a mini one - at rediscovery, and at rebuilding)
(v) new friends
(vi) the promotion (double - one sanctioned, one attained. Complicated, don't ask)
(vii) getting started on writing my novels- now waiting for me with pages wide open
What I yearn for in 2012?
(i) more vacations
(ii) more hard work
(iii) going back to Yoga and starting on French courses
(iv) more focal on my religion (Paganism at that) including being more environmental-friendly
(v) completion of my novels and sending them for publication hunts
(vi) successful liaison with companies so I may venture into the general insurance markets
(vii) more friends and acquaintances gained
Well, thanks for roving the words on this page- I'd do a page revamp soon so that the html and graphics are better. In the meantime, may you have a happy 2012 New Year, with mysteries unraveling like a lover undressing themselves. Ending the night with kisses and hugs.
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