Full days make you tired, but so do dark evenings. Meeting with old friends this weekend-- it's always fabulous, in an almost bittersweet way. It's true that life does move on, but when we all get together like this the ghosts of what we all used to be hang around.

I think we're trying to find a way to be our new selves together, rather than shadows of our old selves. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it's incredibly difficult. But I hope we don't stop trying.

In a nearly unrelated note, a quote from this weekend:

Uncle B: "Well then, what's new?" *long pause* "...I got kicked out of an antique store for asking that, once."

Yeah, I laughed too. Go on, smile. 

A happy new year to my friends. We celebrated in style, and in costume, of course. Working with small children means that halloween is several days long, so on friday I got to wear a crazy fur vest and ears, leading a host of small children around the neighborhood to show off their costumes. They were ridiculously cute. The best part of walking around the neighborhood with them is how people will smile just because they see them. Even without costumes!

And last night I got to do the dry run of my Amelia Earhart costume. It is almost 100 percent complete-- one day I will own an awesome aviator's helmet and goggles. However what I did have sufficed for the small get together we had.

The winner of the costume award went to my friend KJ. She was oscar the grouch complete with trash can. Delightful.

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So today is the new year, and I'm doing Nanowrimo. I wasn't sure how it was all going to go-- not of my ideas were meshing into words. The I pulled up Write or Die (http://writeordie.drwicked.com/ ) and just started typing. I'm around 1200 words in, now. Thanks, Dr. Wicked.

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So happy new year! May this one be more peaceful than the last.