New Years Recap

It's hard for me to find a suitable way to sum up my New Years. It can be described as disappointing, sad, or really fun. I was supposed to go to a party at one of my friend's house which I was actually excited about. I've been to a few parties there and it's always a nice environment there. So on Tuesday, a bunch of my friends told me they were going down to Indy and invited me. I had to work til 7 and already made plans to go with Charlie so I said know. I even double checked with Charlie to make sure we were still going and he said yes! So I worked all day and actually had a nice shift at Family Video. I made a shitload of commission and was in a great mood. As soon as I get off, I call Charlie and ask him what's going on tonight. "Oh, well I just got down to Indy," he says.

I'm pretty pissed at this point. I don't care if people have other plans, I just want to know so I can make different plans. I knew I had to work so traveling wasn't really an option for me and I was ok with that. So now, it's like 7:30 and I have no idea what I'm going to do. I get on the phone and talk try and talk to everyone I still communicate with from high school and everyone is already out of town. Then luckily, my friend Louie calls. Now, Louie is one of the most unreliable people I know. He'll be hanging out with you somewhere and just disappear and never come back. So at first, I was very worried but it actually turned out to be a fun night.

So we decide to go down to the Registry which I figured would be packed. We walked in around 10:30 and it was dead. Some more people showed up later but it was the most empty I've ever seen the place. Luckily, I knew one of the waitresses there from the Joe so she kept hooking us up. Around 11:15, after about 5 pitchers of beer, she starts bringing us bottles of champagne. Now, there was about 8 people at our table but 5 of them only wanted one cup. So between Louie, myself, and our friend Matt, we shared about 4 bottles of champagne. I can vaguely remember the countdown and then blacked out around 12:30ish. The next thing I can really remember is waking up on Louie's couch while cuddling with his dog. Not a bad end for a fun New Years Eve!

New Years Day kind of sucked though as I still felt like shit during an 8 hour shift at the Fam Vid. Did enjoy the time and a half pay though!

Well I hope everyone else had a fun night and wish everyone a great 2009!

Til next time,
Ryan E. Hall