...and a happy new year....

From the "Merry Wives of Windsor" "Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

that's what i hope to do. i'm spending a quiet new year's, watching a basketball game with a friend, and eating leftovers from the all week/weekend christmas party. and i hope to have a glass of wine or three, and fire up a duralog. and watch it snow. and a lot of people would say this is all lame. not really a new year's celebration at all. no ringing in, no one to smooch on the stroke of 12, no noisemakers or champagne. no, it's not- much. but it's mine.

and when i went to the grocery to pick up a case of duralogs, the man in front of me smiled and he said "if that's all you've got, please, go ahead of me." and i answered "thank you, that's very sweet of you!" and he says, "it's a good day for a fire."

"yes, it is." i answered. and we exchanged smiles. it was a nice little moment.

and i'm hoping it all to be a portent of the year to come. people smiling at me. being kind to me. and i will resolve to drink down any unkindness that comes my way.

happy new year.