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2018-12-30 10:43 pm
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Happy New Year



I am pretty sure I won´t make it up to the fireworks. I will have a long phone call with my sister in the evening, then we´ll both retire, her husband and hubby following hard on the heels. Funny thing is when we were young we wanted to stay up for New Year´s as late as possible, and now that we are old all we want to do is sleep.
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2014-01-02 10:27 am
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How to not celebrate New Year´s Eve

Today´s newspaper almost made me sputter my morning coffee across the breakfast table. There was the story of three friends who wanted to celebrate New Year´s Eve in our town, only that....
The three of them had arrived from a nearby commune to watch the famous fireworks, only that one hour before the fireworks started a dense fog came down, and the three friends decided to climb one of the hills amidst our town, to get a better view. No chance, the fog was low but not that low, so they returned to the town centre, only to be held up by a nun who asked them for help because a firecracker had set fire to a stack of old furniture next to the congregation´s church. What she did not find was the key to the outer gate, so one of the guys climbed the wall, two metre high, and tried to extinguish the fire with a fire drencher (that one she´d found but was not able to put into operation). Fire drencher did work but could not erase the fire, so the guy jumped down, unfortunately into the congregation´s artificial pond. Rather dirty now, he went about dousing the fire with the pond´s water. Meanwhile the fire brigades had arrived and started their own attempts to extinguish the fire, that´s why the guy got rid of most of the mud in the blink of an eye. Fire hoses can do that, believe me! The pieces of clothings the nun offered were not to the young guy´s liking, he was still soaked to the bone and it was freezing cold, so he and his friends finally returned to town, to have a drink in a bar whose owners they knew well ( would you let in a guy, dripping wet and muddy, if he weren´t a friend of you? Not nice, I know, but nevertheless reasonable). He did not make it to the table, treading on a dog´s tail. Dog bit back, straight into the guy´s thigh. In hospital he finally got a dry gown. That´s the full story. What a way to begin a new year!
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2013-12-31 05:00 pm
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Tonight I dreamt: I was running after Mr. Ano Nym ( mascot of a supermarket chain, a guy clad all-black: trousers, trench coat, Borsalino, mercifully not known beyond our country´s borders), who was, in the manner of Super-Mario, launching question- and exclamation marks instead of fireballs while climbing ladders and dodging flying cabbage heads. When I finally cornered him, he turned around-and his front-side was that of a Ninja turtle wearing an Anonymous mask a la Guy Fawkes. The following part is well-known in our bedroom: me sitting upright and having a laughing fit. I could not sleep afterwards, because it was not the first time I had that kind of dream, and usually it meant I had forgotten something that should have been done long ago,therefore the question marks. I don´t know why I dream of them, but they are an unmistakable sign that my decrepit brain tries to tell me something is amiss. As a precaution I sent myself a Mail, because I often forget about my dreams. At three in the morning. Hubby thought me on the brink of madness. Most of the morning I racked my brain: what was it I had forgotten? And just when the first bangers were fired to ring in New Year´s Eve, I remembered: last day of the year is deadline of my official annual program concerning work. Of course I had started to work on it at the beginning of the semester. Only that somehow I forgot to finish filling out the tabels and columns. Now I´m sitting at my PC in a rather filthy mood. Doing computing certainly was not on today´s agenda. I´ve finished now, and had a few spare minutes before the first guests will arrive. Now let´s go and feed the outdoor cats,which are a bit nervous because of the constant noise of the firecrackers, then I´ll confine Namo and Vaire to the upper bedroom, because those two constantly try to snitch the salmon. Wish you all a Happy New Year!

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