2005
2004 ended for me on a reasonably up note. Mainly because I got to spend it with a whole bunch of friends who hadn't been in the country at the start of the year. It's amazing how the landscape of this town has changed for me in the last 6 months now James, Kim and Paul, Vana and Anthony, and Damian have turned up here again. Not to say that I didn't have friends here before, but there's a big difference between people who you've just met, and people who you've known for 15 years or more.
Notwithstanding, I didn't much feel like doing anything on NYE, but I dragged myself out. Rhonda and I had different plans for the evening - she had friends back in town from overseas, so she obviously had to be with them - I didn't want to be at a big party with only a few people I knew, so I went my way and spent time with my friends. That's probably a good sign that our relationship is healthy and can tolerate difference. Or something.
Anyway, I managed an evening of silliness at Anthony's house, started off with a few hours on the beach (I got lost and only got there towards the end, but never mind) and James and Paul wrestling. The party itself was good, not heaps of people but good people - a core crowd plus some friends of Miranda's and some more of Laurie's. We managed conversation spanning the serious (why the US economy is fucked; has democracy peaked as a political ideaology) to the less so (taking the piss out of James for his attempts to involve us all in a wine-making scheme on a grand scale, and out of Paul because it's easy to....). Made easier by my consumption of a couple of caps of Frenzy.
Only shame was Damian's absence, no doubt because he didn't want to be around Vana and Anthony together. Which is sad, but there comes a point in life where you have to get over your past relationships.
Later on I was driven over to Rhonda's party, spent about an hour there, basically just showing my face but I'm glad I went. (Also a chance to properly meet some of her friends who I'd only met in passing at the Chills show, when I wasn't really in a good state to meet anybody).
Then home (to R's) and two hours spent reading Cosmo on her couch in my underwear because I couldn't sleep (note to self: take drugs early in the evening if you don't want to be going to bed at 6am).
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