Your typical New Year's Eve posting

Well, it's New Year's Eve once again.
It snuck up on me this year.
I've been off for a couple of weeks and the down time has caused me to forget what day it is.
If it wasn't for my chocolate advent calendar I would have been late for Christmas never mind New Years.

So now I proceed with your typical New Year's Eve reflection on the past year.

A lot has happened in my life and the life of those close to me this year. I moved out with my friend to our very first apartment. I love our apartment, its big and warm and we both enjoy cleaning about as much as we love getting gum in our hair. (not as fun as it sounds) So it's been a good run, we get along great, hardly ever see each other and yet actually enjoy each other's company when we have it.  We just faxed in the letter saying that we will be terminating our lease when it's up at the end of March. It's the sad end of an era...good times, no, Great times where had in that apartment.  Just under a year has passed and its already time to think about moving on.

Moving on to Summer '09 I had the privilege to be part of one of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival's Best of Fest shows. Bloodless has been one of the best shows I've ever been involved in to date. With a wonderful, talented cast and crew, we sailed past the competition (not that we cared about competing), and won not only Best of Fest for our venue but our playwright also won the Harry Rintoul award and a Jenny.

In other performing news this past year, The Crosseyed Rascals ( http://www.crosseyed.ca ) had a very successful year. We actually took home some money from the Fringe Festival and nearly sold out our venue on a few nights. We said goodbye to one member and howdy-doody to two new members! We continue to explore new ventures and are writing a play.

My sister K got married to Ty in September. Now their married, boring and disgusting, but I say all of that with love.  They have introduced the rest of our family to the game Settlers of Catan.  Now my dad doesn't want to do anything else. He and Ty can get very competitive to the advantage of the other players. They spend so much time trying to beat each other that they don't pay any attention to anyone else and someone else wins.

G also moved out. Right before Christmas. It's been weird even just visiting my parents. Where there used to be a four litre of milk there is only a two. The bread has to be kept in the freezer now to keep it from going bad. All around the house just seems less lived in, although I'm sure my mother likes the fact that it's easier to clean.

Well that pretty much wraps up the main highlights of 2009. Yeah, it leaves a lot out but whats a year but 525,948.766 minutes, each one of the unique, bring us closer to home, closer to the ones we love and what more can we hope for in 2010.

Happy New Year...