Happy New Year! Gawd! it's 2008
On New Year's Eve Eve, I vroomed to Atlanta but the rain was aggressive. For real, the south have not seen this much of rain at one time for couple of years. I also drove by the Lake Hartwell I was shocked to see how bad the drought had been. Since the dirt down in here are bright red/orange (mud clay), we can easily see how low the lake had gotten by the look of bright red trims around the lake. I was stunned to see that.. for real!
After I got my friend Howard from the airport, we decided to raid the city.. First we drove around on the Peachtree Street where the most happenin' but it was a Sunday, a rainy day. We managed checkin' out the Martin Luther King Jr's site.. I remembered how I grew up celebratin' the Black History Month in Feburary's and MLK's Day as you know most people at my school/SC are African Americans. I was mostly touched about how MLK felt like he wanted to give up but could not because of how many followers he had that believed in him.. He said something about how it didn't felt like "a dream" anymore that it turned out to a nightmare (his house bombed, church fires, murders, etc). I could not go any futher until where he died, Howard and I agreed we had a lot at one time so we left. Note to self: google on Guahali (sp?)
Next, we went to the Underground (mall but it's outside, kinda). I used to go there a lot when I was in the dance team back in High School, we went to Georgia School for the Deaf maybe twice a year it's after Atlanta and so we tend to stop by to the city as a break. I remember how I enjoyed walking there... but as I came back there, I was stunned on how many homeless people were there. They just sat around, probably trying to keep warm and dry, but so many of them! Some of them drunk or high, but it was not like they were depressed, it was like they knew what they gotta do and that's life, beggin' for money and doin' their best.. I don't know..
So we finally met with Eli and her boy "T" and their furry ones Petey (pitbull) and Ali (my cat Sunny's first playmate) in their lovely condo home. We got the drinks on as we got freshed up and went out to some pool ballards place, we played game there whatsitcalled but by using a little heavy metal thing on the salty table, roll it as gentle as possible to get the best score. Of course them guys took it seriously that us girls were kickin' ass, haha we went out to eat and back to the house and watched the movie Mr. Brooks... Netflix it! I was tired since I got up early for a drive.
Next day, New Year's Eve, I was able to sleep in and I thought it was so late that we got the party started... but Eli said "this is ATL! not Boston" and she was not kidding! We decided to eat at iHop's and went to the party house hoppin' it wasn't until like 11pm but we got to the neighborhood where everyone was poppin' the firecrackers. I was havin' champange ALL the night, whooo! And then when the midnight struck, the fireworks goin' on all at the same time, WOW! Southern's style! We actually were outside at the most of the night and I was wearin' that BEBE jacket, haha, geez.... Of course there were music, some good Spanish ass shakin' music we were dancin' and drinkin' at the most of the night.
Funny but some guy were tryin' to hit on me but I was busy havin' fun with Eli. He tried to make a conversation, Eli decided to take it over and told him I came from Boston and that I don't have time for him, etc, and that Howard was my boyfriend (he is not). But that boy was still solid, didn't care, haha I miss ELI!!! She does that before and I didn't know it, tellin' them annoying boys to leave me alone havin' fun.. I gotta love her because of that I don't have a lot who is tryin' to look out for my back for good reasons.
So of course there were fights, we fled but the party wasn't over! We went to the bar and it was still open at 3am! Seriously! So we had shots and couple of pitchers, we were DONE for.. haha.. back to the condo we were being silly and finally crashed. It was almost 6am ;)
I got up 9am and left to home, whoo! No hangover or anything, when I got home my mom got mad foods goin' on. If you know, a good fortunate food must be eatten on the New Year's Day for good luck, money, positive year, etc. My grandma and Mr. Sloan came, of course we always had a good chat. Oh Jax was doin' just great being with my mom and Papa Dave, didn't notice I was gone or something haha.
On the first day of school this year I thought started too soon (usually right after MLK's Day), my wish granted with whoompass snow! Here's Jax doing this new famous look for the camera, it's like he's saying PEACE OUT! with his tongue. He wanted to wear his Patriots cap so I found a bigger fleece hat supposedly cover his ears so he kinda look funny. Picture freshly taken before stepping around in the snow, soon he lost his mittens and I had backsore from shoveling.
You figure this one out yourself!
We tried to each him over the years on Christmas day (and birthday) how we are supposed to be opening the presents excitedly, because of that, while opening his first couple of presents he teared little pieces of paper one at a time. Big improvement here! Yay yay open open the presents! Thanks Fatima!
