Happy New Years!!
So I had an ok New Years. I was really bumbed to miss the annual New Years party that all my friends from college have. It is always such a blast, and last year in particular it was so wonderful for me.
I intitally just wanted to stay in, eat pizza, drink beer, and watch a good movie. But I kept saying to myself, as well as my mother and sister telling me, that I need to get out and meet people. "You can not meet people sitting in your house" is what my mom tells me. So my roomy invited me to go out with her and her friends. We ended up going to this really neat street near where I live that has all these really cool bars and restraunts. When we got there there was a Second Line (which is a New Orleans tradition where there is a brass band that marches around the neighborhood playing music and people follow). Pretty cool!! So we jumped in with that and walked all around the neighborhood, stopping at various bars. At a couple points I even saw some random people on their porches playing along on their brass instrument. It was really neat to be part of something so New Orleans!!
Then we headed over the my roomie's friend's house. It was an AMAZING, old New Orleans house!! I didnt know anybody and when I got there I sort of hit a wall. My stomach started to hurt and I did not feel like socializing, and no body really went out of their way to talk to me. Have you ever been to those parties where everyone knows each other so they are all in small groups and so you just sort of stand there feeling like a complete loner!! Yeah it stinks big time. So I am not sure if my stomach ache was actually physical or mental, I think it was a little mixture of both. My roomies were also getting super drunk and I was just not in the mood to deal with that. So instead of heading to the French Quarter as planned I ended up heading home.
It felt really good to put on my pjs, take some Pepto-bismol, and lay on the couch watching 2 balls drops (that sounds bad haha!!). What I mean is watching the east coast ball drop and then seeing it replayed for us who are an hour behind. So my New Years was not something super special but at least I was able to get out and have a little fun and then finish the night doing exactly what I felt like doing all along.
I am not a big New Years person, not big into all the resolutions and all. I mean why wait till New Years to make a new beginning? But for the first time I really feel like 2006 is sort of a new start for me. I think so much of has to do with my very hard 2005, full of transition. But it also really has a lot to do with the fact that January is sort of a new start for where I live, New Orleans. The city officially reopened this month and I actually have youth in town and can finally begin my ministry.
I sort of feel like New Orleans. She has been beaten and battered in 2005. She was and is full of transition and her future is unknown. But she is determined to rebuild and be even better than she was before she was hit so hard. She has the support of so many who want to see her rebuilt, and she is leaning of God for support and to show her what is next.
I intitally just wanted to stay in, eat pizza, drink beer, and watch a good movie. But I kept saying to myself, as well as my mother and sister telling me, that I need to get out and meet people. "You can not meet people sitting in your house" is what my mom tells me. So my roomy invited me to go out with her and her friends. We ended up going to this really neat street near where I live that has all these really cool bars and restraunts. When we got there there was a Second Line (which is a New Orleans tradition where there is a brass band that marches around the neighborhood playing music and people follow). Pretty cool!! So we jumped in with that and walked all around the neighborhood, stopping at various bars. At a couple points I even saw some random people on their porches playing along on their brass instrument. It was really neat to be part of something so New Orleans!!
Then we headed over the my roomie's friend's house. It was an AMAZING, old New Orleans house!! I didnt know anybody and when I got there I sort of hit a wall. My stomach started to hurt and I did not feel like socializing, and no body really went out of their way to talk to me. Have you ever been to those parties where everyone knows each other so they are all in small groups and so you just sort of stand there feeling like a complete loner!! Yeah it stinks big time. So I am not sure if my stomach ache was actually physical or mental, I think it was a little mixture of both. My roomies were also getting super drunk and I was just not in the mood to deal with that. So instead of heading to the French Quarter as planned I ended up heading home.
It felt really good to put on my pjs, take some Pepto-bismol, and lay on the couch watching 2 balls drops (that sounds bad haha!!). What I mean is watching the east coast ball drop and then seeing it replayed for us who are an hour behind. So my New Years was not something super special but at least I was able to get out and have a little fun and then finish the night doing exactly what I felt like doing all along.
I am not a big New Years person, not big into all the resolutions and all. I mean why wait till New Years to make a new beginning? But for the first time I really feel like 2006 is sort of a new start for me. I think so much of has to do with my very hard 2005, full of transition. But it also really has a lot to do with the fact that January is sort of a new start for where I live, New Orleans. The city officially reopened this month and I actually have youth in town and can finally begin my ministry.
I sort of feel like New Orleans. She has been beaten and battered in 2005. She was and is full of transition and her future is unknown. But she is determined to rebuild and be even better than she was before she was hit so hard. She has the support of so many who want to see her rebuilt, and she is leaning of God for support and to show her what is next.
posted by khwilly at 8:30 AM
1 Comments:
Holy "s"! That's so awesome that you feel like New Orleans because on my way to work the other day, I was just thinking how I feel like Pittsburgh!!! WEIRD! I'm so amped about this because we are so connected...hahaha...Yeah, I'm lame, but it's really comforting to me that someone, especially you, is thinking along the same lines as I am! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! And am so freakin' proud of you. Amen. :0)
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