happy new year everyone!!!

i spent my new year's eve in two parts - the first part of the evening was spent running through downtown portland on a photo scavenger hunt with a digital camera, and our team won! [good job jeana and george!] our prizes were gift cards to starbucks - hello caffeine :D and the second part was just hanging out for a low-key evening at patty and joany's house out in clackamas. we had pizza and watched movies - xxx, the movie with vin diesel, and barbershop. i would say skip over the vin diesel movie and just watch barbershop, which was totally hilarious. i think the rest of the party crew is still over at the wong's house playing risk... haha...aren't we just outta control? if alternate realities existed, i wonder what it would've been like to see all of us as crazy party people... i think if i hadn't already committed to going to the scavenger hunt/movie/pizza night, i would've stayed home and read or crocheted or something - i am so boring. :)

it's weird to think that it's 2003 now. goodness the years just pass faster and faster. well, with a new year, i should probably make a list of some kind about all the things that i'll resolve to do, but never really get around to doing. does anybody actually keep their new year's resolutions anyway?

i just found out that us kiddies have to go out to dinner with my parents tomorrow night because some friends of theirs have invited us out to dinner at their home in lake oswego. our only stipulation is that we drive separately from the parentals so that we can make an early escape as soon as we've eaten. there will be zero tolerance for hanging around post-dinner, just in case my parents have weird friends or something. and i still haven't figured out why we have to be there - but if there's even a hint of parading us kids around like we're trophy children [because we're so not], i'm outta there.

ok, be safe and merry kids.