New Year’s Eve 2005

I’ve got approximately 40 people coming for brunch tomorrow, so all week has been a bit of this. Actually, it’s worse, because I thought I’d avoid the last-minute frenzies by spending the week cleaning up in advance; this way my New Year’s Eve could be spent calmly. Serenely. Contemplatively.

Ha.

In reality, my New Year’s Eve will be spent under a mushroom cloud of Pine-Sol as I re-clean the entire house. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from this experience it is:

Nature abhors a clean kitchen. It also abhors clean bathrooms, clean living rooms, clean walls, clean floors—

Let’s just say that if it’s clean, Nature abhors it.

My plans for today: clean each room and then lock the door. My theory: if they can’t reach it, they can’t mess it up. Things might get a little stressful after I clean the bathrooms, but hey! If it’s a real emergency, they can use the facilities next door.

Some 2005 thank yous are in order:

I want to thank all of my readers, new and old. Converting Ballpoint Wren from a static, HTML website to a dynamic, XHTML blog has been a wild ride. I’m still learning and I hope you’ll continue to bear with me.

Thanks to Eric Scheie for giving me my first big link and to Miss Snark for the biggest, baddest link of all. Even if she removes it tomorrow, I’ll always be grateful for her notice.

Thanks to the people who created WordPress blogging software. Maintaining my site has never been easier.

Thanks to Podz and MacManX who helped me out so much in the WordPress forums.

Thanks to my boys, who make me laugh every day. Thanks to my Sissy, who is always there for me.

And finally, thanks to my Hubby, who has always loved me and believed in me no matter what, who gave me permission to write about him (as long as it’s funny and I do it frequently), and who pesters me if I don’t post daily (you should’ve heard him complain this week).

Happy new year, my friends. Here’s hoping 2006 will be a good year for all of us.