Happy New Year! It rained all day yesterday, New Years Eve day, the last day of 2006. It was raining off and on, but everything stayed wet, wet, wet. Neighbors didn’t seem to mind, setting off fireworks from 10pm onward.

Hubby and I were really out-of-it. We didn’t do much of anything.

[Our secret is: last week we got the first season of the show "24" on DVD and watched a few of the episodes one night, and a few more another night, then a night or two of none watched, then ... Saturday night we started watching the next episodes, and it was intense and wonderful, hubby stayed awake and wanted to keep watching, it was a strange event, the sort that I am privy to often enough, sort of as if the brain is turned fully on and the right brain 100% locked into ... whatever it is, for hours and hours and hours. So the point is, we watched and watched and went through and saw the whole season. Sleep? That's for naps throughout the day. I've known that, but dear hubby had to go through it, and he did quite well. It was interesting, I have needed less sleep this past week or two, compared with earlier on in this pregnancy, but I have slept more than "when not pregnant" as before, now usually getting two or three or four hours of sleep, waking up for a few minutes or a couple of hours, falling asleep again, etc. This was an 'all nighter', but a "watching" one, it wasn't as exhausting as a younger persons "all nighter" generally is, or other peoples (like many who would have pulled one off this last night.) Anyhow, we had fun, really did. We'd not ever seen "24" at all before, but had heard about it and were interested, just biding our time, I guess.]

I took a few naps here and there, and lounged about. Hubby set the children up with computer games and stuff on the TV in the basement (to keep them out of our hair) and it just was a quiet day overall. Football was on later, of course. AMC channel was airing a few Clint Eastwood movies “Countdown with Clint” –I discovered at 3:15pm. Hubby had fallen asleep and I had awakened and was still just tired, but trying to either go to sleep or wake-up more. On the DirecTivo Guide I saw that “For a Few Dollars More” was on, so I decided to watch it, and was pleasantly surprised to see that it had just started the minute beforehand. We have several Clint Eastwood DVD’s, but that is one movie we do not have, so I took the opportunity to watch it, though I never like watching movies on AMC really, they USED to be commercial-free, you know. :rolleyes: So then, yes, I am a Spaghetti Western “fan” :veryshocked:

Hubby woke up a couple of hours later, and after the movie ended –turned on more football, of course. We saw this and that and that and this, games in progress in different stages, mostly saw many of them in the last minutes of the game. Pro and College. Hubby is a sports fan. I’m really not, but can ‘get into it’ at times, enough for me, and him. Anyways, we just hung out and then all went to bed. I didn’t fall asleep right way, but hubby did. I was watching Law & Order, on whatever channel it was that was airing them all day yesterday, and that’s where I fell asleep, sometime near 11pm. I later awoke and saw the time ["display" with the DSS remote] and it was 12:06am, I missed the New Year rollover, again. I wasn’t planning to see it or not.

I thought it was funny that I wrote about New Years Eve the other day, and that soon thereafter my hubby pulled an All Nighter with me, the day before New Years Eve, not planned, just “happened to turn out that way” and we avoided another year change face-to-face. FWIW

The other day our youngest got sick, threw up, and then had the next progression in the system, how that often goes … so we weren’t going to go anywhere this weekend … it was a stay home weekend.

I see now that the sun is out, the sky is fairly blue, the concrete things (sidewalks, driveways) and blacktop roads are drying up. Weather forecast calls for spotty showers this morning, but it looks really nice right now, firecrackers later, for sure.