*So this entry will be a two-fer. Please comment!*
December 31st One hour till midnight.
Okay, this is by far the worst holiday I've ever had. It's New year's eve and I've been left behind at Bonnie's. She left yesterday to Grandma and Grandpa's house to ring in the new year with them. Mom's sister is also going to be there with her husband and kids. She took a suitcase full of her toys. All my friends are with her, and I'm here. This is the first time I am spending New Years without them, that's why this is the worst holiday ever. Well nothing to do but wait..
January first one hour after midnight
I decided to go out of the closet ten minutes before midnight to look outside. All around me, I heard sounds of of celebration: Singing, laughter, the whole enchilada. It made me think of years past celebrating with the gang. Each year, we had a huge party to ring in the new year. Bo and Jessie would do all the decorating, Rex and Hamm would set up the music, and Buzz and I would hang a New Year's ball that we decorated with Christmas lights, and would drop it at the countdown. Then we would toss handmade confetti into the air and then sit on the windowsill to watch the fireworks being shot off from the pier. We continued to do it even after we lost members of the family and even when Andy stopped playing with us. That party was the one thing I looked forward to because I spent it with my family. To be spending it without them breaks my non-existing heart. I watched the fireworks alone and then went back into the closet. I don't normally have resolutions and I may never will, but I will strive to be the same person I am now, if not better. New Year, clean slate. Happy new year to my family.
Should auld acquaintance be forget,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
in days of all lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne.
We'll take a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
*I'm sorry it's sad!*