Cried yet?
This post is really nice in my head and by nice I mean effing amazing, however, I know it won’t be 25% of what I imagine but I’ll try my best, so be nice as you always are.
How can you be so nice? Yes, I’m asking you.
Ahmm
New Years Eve is my favorite holiday, I could care less about Christmas, Easter and my birthday, but today is a day that I really like.
Growing up my parents would make my brother and me write 6 things that we would like to achieve next year, feasible things, like keeping my room clean (never happened), it was not a bucket list nor resolutions. After writing it, my dad would seal it and save it for the next Dec. 31st.
At around midnight we would open the list and check what we had done and laugh at ourselves for having failed miserably or salute each other for having achieved it. Then we would burn the piece of paper and drink to that.
Ahhhh!
Since I started living alone and celebrating NYE alone, it’s been harder to keep the tradition alive, but I try.
I miss that. This is the one day I truly miss my family, but life goes on.
Bear with me, I’m not crying yet.
This year was a good year. I was blue till March, but I never show it, I suck it up. April came and life changed. Not that I had a hard life, far from it. I have a great job and live a comfy life, but I was sick and tired of this hole in the wall called Seville. I’m still here, but my mood is way better.
I also started blogging. This is not my first blog, but my other blog was a bit darker in humor and a lot more politically incorrect. I closed it and opened this one using the furry beast as an excuse. I knew I would go back to the dark side, but since I’m keeping this sorta personal (I put pics of myself) I won’t go too crazy.
Yessss!!!
On the way I’ve met wonderful people, Stella, Pam, Susan, Dawn, Eric, Jodi, people with whom I keep in contact on a more personal level.
I’m really lucky, the luckiest guy on earth (I swear), and you my readers are the best. And what about my guest bloggers? Aren’t they the best? John, Alice, Pam and just wait for what’s coming in January.
I’m moving into a different life project which will be extremely demanding and will keep me really busy. However, I won’t give up blogging. I couldn’t, you’ve been too nice to me and you have yet to witness how Oprah and the Pope talk to me on Twitter and how I win a Pulitzer and get nominated for a Nobel.
This post is already above my average (350 words), but I haven’t cried yet.
I just wanna thank you for your great sense of humor and for being such a good sport. I wanna wish you a great new year and hope to see you around.
I can’t promise to be PC, but I’ll try my best not to offend anyone, and if I do please let me know,we’ll talk it out as grown ups and everybody is happy. Life is too short for to not be.
More?
Damn it, I’m finishing and still haven’t cried, have you? No?
Bambi’s mother died and is now mounted on a wall.
Cried yet? Geez, you have no heart!!
Special thanks to Miss Peach for sorta editing my posts, she’s a bad editor, bad bad editor, but I love her.
She’s the worse editor actually, she swore she had edited this, edited my ass, you are so FIRED Peach!
I didn’t cry, but you are hysterical. Happy NYE! Enjoy
Let’s see your lists then!
Oh Leo……that food looks incredible – especially that crab…..I won’t cry – you’ve made me laugh way too much for me to start crying now. It’s a blast knowing you and keeping up with “Life Leo Style”…..here’s to a successful new year for you my friend. Have fun tonight WHATEVER you may be doing as the new year rings in!
Hugs, Pam
Love that tradition, what a great idea.
Okay, I could have forced a slight teary eye up until Bambi mounted on the wall – then the laughter came!
I read the whole post and didn’t cry either, just feel a bit hungry.
And dang I realize I forgot the black-eyed peas and have to go to the market today. Thanks.
That’s a very nice idea… and I LOVE THIS FOOD…Have a wonderful New Year and enjoy all those fab food
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Hey Leo, you’ll only ever make us cry from laughter. Have a ball tonight and do keep tormenting us with the photos of the food you’re enjoying! Happy 2013 to you and Doggy.
I cry at the end of The Natural. That’s about it.
Happy New Year, Doggy, aahve a great 2013!
I didn’t cry. The food looks incredible! Have a great New Year, Leo!
Nah…..no tears here. Great post though. Happy New Year….your favorite holiday.
How about Doggy guest posting once in a while or is that too dangerous?
The things he could say about me would compromise my reputation (assuming I have some left)
yea what is your list? and I cried cause I could not eat that food. I look forward to reading your future posts. My curiosity is peaked
A highly important question: what is in the first pic next to your fork? A dinosaur-tail?
Cried? no. Giggled? maybe. Edited in my mind? yes….worst not worse…though not as much as it could have been. Have a great 2013 with Doggy and I hope you have a good night tonight whatever you end up doing
Thanks for all the smiles and thought provoking posts Leo! Have yourself a very Happy New Year, and we are really looking forward to what you have in store for us in 2013!:-)
Happy new year Leo and Doggy!
Looking forward to seeing what you have in store for 2013!
Happy new year Leo and Doggy xxxx
Happy new Year my friend..
Lets all have a fantastic 2013 and I hope all your dreams come true.. Your Buddie Stella xxxx00xx
Cheers to 2013!
Happy New Year Leo!!! i didn’t cry during this post, but so I imagined chopping onions … but that didn’t work either. This is a great closure to 2012 that also leads into 2013. Well don!!!
Another good post Leo and I loved your family tradition
That speech wouldn’t work at the Nobel ceremony – more Oscar style … but on the other hand it was nice that you can be without me and everybody else here … and I must admit I quite like Seville – but I have never lived there .. had an very interesting evening with Don Johnson in Seville. I didn’t cry – I felt a bit uncomfortable – because I have difficult to handle when people say I’m important to them, but still I like to hear it.
Can wait and see what you’re up to … this year. So far so good.
Like that … with writing 6 things .. on a piece of paper .. and then burn it … *smile Smart.
No crying, not a single tear. Heartless, I know. Happy 2013, perhaps you can try harder.
Unfortunately not one tear did I shed would you settle for melancholy? Thank you for making me laugh in 2012 ! Wishing you good health,wealth and happiness in 2013!
Leo,
Happy new year, my not too near friend. And much love.
Le Clown
Back at you my friend!
What was the great, simpering quote from Frank Burns? “It’s nice to be nice to the nice”. Well, you ain’t no Ferret-face, that’s fer dang sure. But you ARE nice, even when you’re not, and that’s why I enjoy coming here and being nice to you, even when I’m not.
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(Sorry, I’ve been reading those dang Physics journals again. Heisenberg, and all that.)
Have a great 2013! (Having? Yeah, I’m still cleaning out the Inbox.) And thanks for the shout-out! That was nice! (Oh, come ON, don’t start THAT again!