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i figured that it was about freakin’ time for me to get back on the band wagon. it has been quite a while since my last post (just about 3 months), and it now being a new year (the year of redemption) i figured why not just jump right back in and forget about all the crap that i didn’t write about and start concentrating on the new stuff! exciting, eh?

i realized that before i kept thinking that the updates had to be really long and well thought out and have all kinds of things weaved together to make them interesting. and in part, that is still true (this entry will be something like that). but something cool about blogs that i didn’t apply to myself is the quick update. maybe a paragraph or two, tops, but it is informative and interesting and keeps the reader checking back. i’d say that 3 or 4 entries a week is much cooler than one every two.

the new years celebrations were a blast this year. meredith, hannah, and i went down to bloomington to indulge ourselves in the festivities and i think we all came home happy that we did (meredith will be happy that she did at a later time because she was still a little “sicky” this morning. :( ). meredith and i dropped off hannah at dan’s and continued on to roots to visit peter, then to our old house (“the joint”) to say hi to our old roommates, and then on a few errands. then back to roots to pick up pete. we hung out at pete’s place until about 10pm and then headed over to dan’s (“the clinic”) for the evening.

it was really a great time. there were lot’s people that i got to see that i hadn’t / won’t for a while. we were there for about 4 hours, but the time just slipped by. the chimming of midnight was great and everyone gathered around the tv and got all crazy. then metzger unloaded a bottle of shampagne on everyone and aj got really sticky.

peter and meredith got tired of the beer pretty quickly and headed over to Big Red to pick up a bottle of tequilla (of all things) and they just about finished it off between the two of them. i had some left over “shrooms” that worked out pretty well, and i didn’t have a migraine this morning either. woohoo!

the two most ridiculous things that occupied the new years evening:

1) hannah and joni making out.

there, i said it, and it was hilarious. i was sitting in DK’s room in the back of the house with a few kids and then peter told me to call my parents and tell them happy new year’s and that i love them. so, i call dad and talk to him and then he passes the phone to mom and i’m talking to her, and then there is some commotion in the hall. hannah comes into the room and i’m like, “hannah, it’s mom, tell her happy new years.” she looks at me crazy, mouths, “joni just stuck her tongue in my mouth,” and then grabs the phone and is like, “hey mom, how’s it going.” by this time the news of joni’s craziness had passed through the house and a crowd had come in the room to see what else would happen. then hannah hands me the phone as joni grabs her, pulls her around and they start making out more. blake runs up to me and says loudly in the phone before i could hang up, “hannah and joni are making out!” it was hilarious.

then there was some more craziness as i went and found dan and had him go in the room to straighten things out. and then at one point someone pushed me, joni, and hannah on to the bed and blake started shouting that i was making out with hannah too and how gross that is. and he was like, “eli loves his sister, but not the way that i love my sister.” it was hilarious.

2) meredith and i trying to say “happy new year” to casey.

we just thought that it was a new year and that it was the year of redemption and that it couldn’t hurt. meredith was so scared and kept saying that there wasn’t a good time (like there’s ever gonna be a “good” time), and then everyone kept telling me NOT to say anything at all. like at one point ali oz was like, “go for it meredith, but not you eli, just let it go.” and then we went to the vid later that night and joni said not to say anything and peter said not to say anything, so nothing was said. i still don’t know exactly how i feel about it. part of me thinks that something simple like, “hey, i’m sorry about how things have turned out, just wanted to say happy new year,” would have been nice. the other part of me thinks that that wouldn’t have mattered at all and would have just made the situation more awkward. so many people were so against it, so it just didn’t happen.

in the end i had an amazing time however. i was so glad to be able to spend that time with peter before i head out for the west coast again (in 2 days). i felt loved and happy.

it is 4am right now and i am going to get up in about 3 hours to finish packing and then go pick up meredith and leave for our road trip out to seattle. i’m super psyched for it and i’m really excited to see all the people on our journey.