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essayel ([personal profile] essayel) wrote2012-01-01 12:32 pm
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2012

Happy new one, folks. I hope 2012 brings you everything you could wish for in a properly guilt free fashion.

They say that the first minutes of the new year will be repeated throughout the year. I spent them eating Terry's chocolate orange, reading Pterry and cuddling a terrified and rather poorly dog who HATES fireworks. Dogs are such dustbins. I think he's stolen and eaten something that has disagreed with him but seems a bit more cheerful today. He has been to the top of Pen y Fal this morning anyway. Yesterday he didn't even want to go outside.

My garden is weird. I have the first snowdrop and the last white rose in bloom a few yards apart just by the back door.
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[identity profile] erised1810.livejournal.com 2012-01-01 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
same to you!!! oof, glad it doens't literally repeat. or i'd be swtill in a kind of pouncehu with m yneighbor/friend...

[identity profile] essayel.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
*pouncehugs* are good :)

[identity profile] anteros-lmc.livejournal.com 2012-01-01 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
They say that the first minutes of the new year will be repeated throughout the year.
My granny used to say that too! I usually try to make sure I'm kissing someone ;) This year though I had a very sleepy five year old curled up in my lap!

[identity profile] essayel.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww that sounds nice. Mine are too big to cuddle now. Occasional brief hugs are okay, but not cuddles.

[identity profile] anteros-lmc.livejournal.com 2012-01-03 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Mine is usually to fast to be caught and cuddled but she was sufficiently sleepy not to object!

[identity profile] joannesopercook.livejournal.com 2012-01-01 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
And a very happy one to you and yours, my dear friend. I spent the first minutes of 2012 asleep, having conked out after one glass of champagne. A drinker, I'm not. :)

[identity profile] essayel.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Champagne does that to me too. Like a mallet to the back of the skull with the most godawful hangover to follow. I hope you didn't suffer the next day.
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[personal profile] yakalskovich 2012-01-01 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy New Year!!

**hugs**

That flower thing is a very apt and typical description of what this winter has been like so far.

I spent the first minutes of the New Year drinking champagne with the Nazgul and the Little Lady (who had alcohol-free pale fizzy), and then we went nordic-walking through the celebrating and firework-starting crowds on our usual round, and lots of tipsy people staaaaared and went 'Oh, they are nordic walking!' as they seemed to be in a Captain Obvious state of inebriation.

Sports, the company of my favourite ladies, good things to drink, and occasional fireworks? Sounds good.

[identity profile] essayel.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Captain Obvious *snickers*
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[personal profile] yakalskovich 2012-01-02 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, that state where even the simplest things seem note- and giggleworthy?

[identity profile] theofenraven.livejournal.com 2012-01-01 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Never heard that before, about the first minutes of a new year.

I guess I'm spending 2012 asleep, because I was in bed at midnight and barely awake when the clock struck!

[identity profile] essayel.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Sleep is never a bad thing, especially if the dreams are sweet.

[identity profile] charliecochrane.livejournal.com 2012-01-01 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
First minutes spent laughing. Good sign!

Happy new year to you and yours, lovey.

[identity profile] essayel.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
:D laughing is good. I hope we find plenty to amuse us throughout the year.
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[identity profile] essayel.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
New years, new beginnings - optimism is justified, I think. :)

[identity profile] wulfila.livejournal.com 2012-01-01 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy New Year to you, too! The garden situation sounds familiar (a rose and some primroses here).

[identity profile] essayel.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Roses and primroses! That's just so wrong as far as I'm concerned.

[identity profile] jessie-lansdel.livejournal.com 2012-01-01 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy flwyddyn newydd to you as well honey. May it bring all you desire. Bet the walk up Pen y Fal was lovely this sunny morning.

[identity profile] essayel.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Diolch :)

They go up in the dark and arrive on the top, if they get it right, just before sunrise. One can, apparently, see five counties from the top but it's usually a bit of the misty side.

I stay in bed then put the bacon on just in time for them to get home.
rhi: Two fluffy kittens, inside front paws raised. "It was him. He did it." (pawpointing by lanning)

[personal profile] rhi 2012-01-01 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy New Year to you!

I was trying not to fall asleep while also trying to write and/or read. ::amused:: This does not bode well, somehow....

[identity profile] essayel.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oops - but I think it's more of a guideline than a rule :D

[identity profile] stevie-carroll.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy New Year!

[identity profile] essayel.livejournal.com 2012-01-02 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I love your penguins!!

[identity profile] clmiles.livejournal.com 2012-01-06 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Happy new year, hon! I wish all the best to you and your loved ones! *hugs*
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