the final post of 2006

in less than a couple of hours, 2006 will be drawing to a close for those of us here in the central time zone. while most folks are probably out drinking too much champagne or miller high life, we're safe and sound at home. cadence is sleeping, ted's looking for a new brew pot, and i'm posting my final entry of 2006.

...we actually did our celebrating last night. ever since we had cadence, instead of celebrating new year's eve, we celebrate new year's eve-eve (a.k.a. dec 30th) so that we can actually hang out with people and still be in bed before midnight. last year was more of an open house type of a party since we'd just moved into our new place. this year, it was back to more of the traditional dxxxxxx siblings-and-their-closest-friends party. mikey brought his gyil, which is a xylophone from ghana, where he's spent quite a bit of time. ted and john joined him on djembe and cow bell, as well as ted's bandmates tim on guitar and matt on cadence's toy piano, and others on various percussive instruments.

...it was pretty flippin' loud. the last time mikey brought his gyil over to our place, he was playing so hard he broke his tree trunk stool and fell on his butt while playing. he's pretty damn amazing on that thing. i love pentatonic instruments. traditional korean music is based on a pentatonic scale, which i think is very blue-sy, so i guess it's kinda in my blood to be fond of that music.

...we cut the music short at around 10pm as a courtesy to our neighbors, and folks just chilled out for a bit. i don't think cadence went to sleep until almost midnight, though, and we were pretty exhausted when we finally turned in for the night.

...we woke up to a rainy new years eve, the kind of day when you just want to crawl back in bed and not move for another couple of hours, if only your 2 year old would allow it. i also had a stage 1 migraine, so we didn't make it to church. i've had the headache all day now, so i'm glad we decided to just veg and watch a movie (thank you for smoking). we were supposed to go to our friend yvonne's for dinner, but i know i would've been no fun to be around.

anyhoo, happy new year to everybody everywhere. may 2007 bring you all peace, love and much joy!