Friday, January 1, 2010

Satisfaction, I Got Some

It's a bright sun shiny first day of the new year! Also, it's cold. Really cold. There's ice on the lake cold.
Last night was a nice quiet evening spent inside watching movies. And opening birthday gifts. My birthday is tomorrow, but Rooster thought I should open them last night. Season one of "True Blood", a collector's edition of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", a set of salt and pepper shakers (green glass George Washington busts) and a CD from Starbucks (covered with thousands of teeny tiny birds). I'm very close to starting the "True Blood" marathon, and will now have to go find season two so I can stay current.
My father sent me a gift too. This is nothing short of amazing since we don't have the best of relationships. Mama Bird can attest to that being the understatement of the century. Anyway, my father sent me a set of Melmac (trademarked) cafeteria style (think 50's or 60's) tea/coffee cups, saucers, and dessert plates with a sugar bowl and creamer. It's all this great shade of lime green that will actually go perfectly with all my orange stuff. It's really cute and I love it!
I don't have any resolutions, I would likely break them in a week anyway. But I can say that already, this year is better than the last. Last year this time, I was alone. Last year this time I was depressed. This year I have someone to share time with, someone to watch movies with. Someone to just BE with. It's nice.
Last year's depression had little to do with being alone, and everything to do with being dissatisfied. Dissatisfied in general. The last part of this past year has been great, and it looks to only get better.
So I hope that everyone had a great New Year's, and that the coming year is the best one yet for everyone.

--Little Bird is satisfied

8 comments:

Mama Bird said...

Happy New Year! In a lot of ways this was a better year except for the stress, lots and lots of stress.

We have one half of the last disk to go in the Mad Men second season series, so thats what we'll do tonight.

We only made it up until about 10:15 last night, didn't hear anything after that. Don't know if it was just the quiet little village we're in or if I was just sound asleep and missed it all.

Chris said...

Happy New Year and Happy Birthday Avis. May this year live up to your expectations and beyond.

coyote said...

Happy, 52 minutes late, Birthday Avis!!

Little Bird said...

Thanks guys! This was a quiet one this year. But when Mama Bird gets back home, we'll have a celebratory dinner, maybe a day or three from now. The question then becomes, what will we have?!

Mama Bird said...

It's your choice. Pick whatever you want, as long as you help me cook it.

coyote said...

I just realized that I forgot to include the axe link for mama bird in the previous whatever.

http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=2&p=20129&cat=2,45794&ap=1

Hope it works.

Mama Bird said...

Coyote,

I was able to copy and paste the link and see the axes and hatchets. While quite beautiful the ones you can get at Best Made are still my favorites.

coyote said...

Prefer handmade Swedish myself. Not saying that I can afford one.