Thursday - The Last Post of 2009

[ninanevermore]

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Jeff is home for New Years again this year. Two things about my husband: he is not fond of crowds, and he enjoys blowing things up. This means that parties and bars are out, and instead we will ring in the New Year in our back yard, setting off fireworks (which just so happen to be legal where I live). We've got wine, we've got mortar shells, we've got Roman candles, we've got these things you set fire to so that they go high above the trees while they scream and shoot flames, and we've got a $35 box-shaped thing called "Helluva Deal" that promises to shoot off 20 rounds of multicolored explosions in a display that the guy at the fireworks store called, "Worthy of a grand finale, if that's what you're looking for." We were, so we bought it.

2009 has not been the worst year ever, at least not for me, but it's been one of the more annoying years I've seen. I read today 2010 will be a blue moon year (meaning it will have an extra full moon in it somewhere) and it is supposed to be wonderful according to folks who look star-ward to tell fortunes. I hope they're right. Regardless, we'll be chasing 2009 out with some mortar shells (or at least, the fireworks that they call by that name) and hope to scare it so bad that it leaves at 11:55 at the latest.

A Happy New Year to One and All!

Comments

[noblwish.livejournal.com]

I understand that 2009 went OUT with a Blue Moon. Technically, every year has a Blue Moon in it somewhere, since there are only 12 calendar months, but always 13 lunar months. Maybe they meant 2010 will have 14 moons, since it sorta shared one last night with the previous year.

Happy New Year!

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

But a year that ends in a blue moon is surely different than one that begins in one, don't you think? One year saved it's wonder for the end, and the other starts off with wonder, and each full moon after is already one ahead of any other year. :)