Oh yeah! New Year's stuff.
Jan. 4th, 2005 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osarabaNew Year's Eve was a Friday, so I worked at the store until around 2, I think. Something like that. Maryann and I had plans to go with Chris, Carrie & Sean to a party in New Jersey. We assumed that Victor & Co. were going to be going as well. But when Maryann found out they weren't, we really didn't want to go to NJ and spend New Year's with a bunch of people we didn't know at a stranger's house. (But mostly, we'd really rather spend it at Victor's.)
(Okay, I'm going to just interrupt myself for a second to point out that I'm totally switching tenses in my sentences, but I can't seem to figure out the correct way to speak. Blame it on my hunger headache.)
Anyway. Maryann called Chris and bought some time by saying that I was stuck working at the store until 7:30, so we wouldn't make the 7:37 train at Penn Station. Chris said they were taking the 8:30 train. (Damn.) Then she tried to tell him how we weren't going to know anyone there. He said we'd know him, Carrie and Sean. (True...) He said "Don't be a pussy! You promised!" (Apparently true, but I hadn't known.)
And so the soap opera began. Maryann called Victor to get him to call Chris and convince him to go to Vic's house instead, but Victor couldn't get through. Maryann called Carrie and explained everything. But she didn't call Chris back and so we practically ran over to Penn Station and were there by 8:10. We called Chris several times, but couldn't get through. Finally, he called us back and we told him we were at Penn Station - where were they? But Chris said that Carrie told them we weren't coming! Oh, the irony.
So we told them to just go ahead without us and we went to Vic's instead. We really enjoyed it there, so it was totally worth the running around. And, at least from my point of view, it was really amusing watching Maryann be so indecisive. Teehee.
Just to sum up. We went to Vic's house -- probably arrived around 9:30? Started in on the beers -- I discovered that Heineken is not as bitter as others I've tried, and so is much easier to drink (except for those last few sips at the bottom). It wasn't a big party or anything, but it was definitely a good time. Ohhh, I was so happy to have gone!
Around midnight, we were all sitting on the floor in the hallway, talking, when I looked at my watch which said about two minutes to 12. When I mentioned this, someone went into the other room and turned on the TV to watch the ball drop. But it had already dropped. Then someone blamed it on me, that we missed the ball dropping. But I said that if I hadn't said anything, we wouldn't even have noticed that it was midnight. So there. LOL.
Well, long story short -- we (me, Maryann & Justin) ended up sleeping on the hallway floor at around 3am. I think I got about an hour's sleep, but woke up because it was freezing in the room. Victor had left the window open, and we had no blankets. I know I got up once to find my bookbag to use as a pillow, and put my coat on as a blanket. Which helped for a while, but I wasn't really able to fall asleep again. I know I sat up for a while; just sitting there with my coat on 'cause I was so cold. Around 6 I moved to a different spot and laid down... I must have fallen asleep for five or ten minutes, but I woke up when Justin went to the bathroom. So we pretended that we were still trying to sleep, and around 6:45, we just decided to leave. Justin gave us a ride to the bus stop and we got to wait in the not-so-cold car until the bus came. Then we got to take the R train from the second-to-last stop in Brooklyn, allll the way to the third-to-last stop in Queens. Long ride. Nice nap.
Went to my house, got there around 9, slept until 1pm. Ahhh, nice, warm, comfortable bed (because at least I have a heater)!
Despite trying to freeze us out of his house, we had such fun. It was especially amusing to see Victor drunk 'cause he really didn't seem drunk except that he kept rambling. But it was that type of rambling that could be sober rambling, too.
You know, I think I'm just rambling right now. So. Goodnight.
(Okay, I'm going to just interrupt myself for a second to point out that I'm totally switching tenses in my sentences, but I can't seem to figure out the correct way to speak. Blame it on my hunger headache.)
Anyway. Maryann called Chris and bought some time by saying that I was stuck working at the store until 7:30, so we wouldn't make the 7:37 train at Penn Station. Chris said they were taking the 8:30 train. (Damn.) Then she tried to tell him how we weren't going to know anyone there. He said we'd know him, Carrie and Sean. (True...) He said "Don't be a pussy! You promised!" (Apparently true, but I hadn't known.)
And so the soap opera began. Maryann called Victor to get him to call Chris and convince him to go to Vic's house instead, but Victor couldn't get through. Maryann called Carrie and explained everything. But she didn't call Chris back and so we practically ran over to Penn Station and were there by 8:10. We called Chris several times, but couldn't get through. Finally, he called us back and we told him we were at Penn Station - where were they? But Chris said that Carrie told them we weren't coming! Oh, the irony.
So we told them to just go ahead without us and we went to Vic's instead. We really enjoyed it there, so it was totally worth the running around. And, at least from my point of view, it was really amusing watching Maryann be so indecisive. Teehee.
Just to sum up. We went to Vic's house -- probably arrived around 9:30? Started in on the beers -- I discovered that Heineken is not as bitter as others I've tried, and so is much easier to drink (except for those last few sips at the bottom). It wasn't a big party or anything, but it was definitely a good time. Ohhh, I was so happy to have gone!
Around midnight, we were all sitting on the floor in the hallway, talking, when I looked at my watch which said about two minutes to 12. When I mentioned this, someone went into the other room and turned on the TV to watch the ball drop. But it had already dropped. Then someone blamed it on me, that we missed the ball dropping. But I said that if I hadn't said anything, we wouldn't even have noticed that it was midnight. So there. LOL.
Well, long story short -- we (me, Maryann & Justin) ended up sleeping on the hallway floor at around 3am. I think I got about an hour's sleep, but woke up because it was freezing in the room. Victor had left the window open, and we had no blankets. I know I got up once to find my bookbag to use as a pillow, and put my coat on as a blanket. Which helped for a while, but I wasn't really able to fall asleep again. I know I sat up for a while; just sitting there with my coat on 'cause I was so cold. Around 6 I moved to a different spot and laid down... I must have fallen asleep for five or ten minutes, but I woke up when Justin went to the bathroom. So we pretended that we were still trying to sleep, and around 6:45, we just decided to leave. Justin gave us a ride to the bus stop and we got to wait in the not-so-cold car until the bus came. Then we got to take the R train from the second-to-last stop in Brooklyn, allll the way to the third-to-last stop in Queens. Long ride. Nice nap.
Went to my house, got there around 9, slept until 1pm. Ahhh, nice, warm, comfortable bed (because at least I have a heater)!
Despite trying to freeze us out of his house, we had such fun. It was especially amusing to see Victor drunk 'cause he really didn't seem drunk except that he kept rambling. But it was that type of rambling that could be sober rambling, too.
You know, I think I'm just rambling right now. So. Goodnight.
