Thursday - Bringing it in with a bang

Today on my drive into work, I was thinking about New Years Eve, which I got to spend with my husband this year. In the almost 18 years we've been a couple, we have only spent a few New Years Eves together. Usually, due to his work schedule, I've either spent them with other people in a bar or alone feeling sorry for myself. I hate to admit it, but some of the best New Years Eves I've had have been without him. Jeff is a bit of a misanthrope: the idea of being in a large crowd of people makes him irritable, and the reality of being dragged to a gathering of people makes him insufferable. This being the case, we opted to stay home, drink a bottle of wine, and blow things up in our back yard.

( An explosion of metaphors )