NYE 12/31/08

Pretty wild one this year. 2008 I was invited to a party by the woman that I have been seeing for three weeks. She got drunk. Ignored me and ended up making out with some guy in the bathroom and than told me that he accosted her. I threw him on the ground. Half the party tackled me. She said that she didn't remember freak dancing with him for an hour. I felt like an asshole for not leaving sooner. Nice.

It's 8:30 AM January 2, 2009. Thank god 2008 is over. It was a grand year of transition and flux. Broke up with my long term girlfriend in February. She found someone new about two weeks later. I got in the best shape I have been in since High School weight 205 body fat 12%. Closed a company started a blog, two new projects. Blah Blah Blah....

This post is about recounting the last 8 NYE's. I got about eleven hours of sleep last night. But had been up for about 54 of the previous 60 hours.

2000 I had just broken up with the woman that I had been seeing for three years. I was just about to hit 30 and I was at a party in the hills of LA. My friends Chris and Nils introduced me to Captain Morgans rum and I gulped down about a bottle. Goes down like punch. Than I saw a woman that could have been Cameron Diaz body double. Beautiful. I don't remember much of the converstaion, but my friends were smiling and giving me the thumbs up when "Cameron" and I wnet outside. My moment of clarity kind of reminds me of The Shining when Nicholson realizes he's kissing a dead woman. I was making out with a retired Porn Star. There was a slight resemblance to Cameron Diaz if Ms. Diaz had been dead and buried for six months and someone brpought her emaciated corps to a party. Nice. My friends are bastards. You don't do that.

2001 I just moved to SF. I took one of those fat test things at the gym. 245 lbs. 35% body fat. I looked bad. But back in California, so happy. NYE with my cousin. Nothing interesting

2002 Brought friends Ty and Catherine to a party with their friends the 35 year old guy and his 19 year old fiancee with the boob job. The 19 year old and the guy did it in the hot tub. Technically right next to the hot tub. It was OK though the host took pictures. You can probably find them on the internet. At five to midnight the woman I was talking to said she needed to go find her husband. I thought: she really could have mentioned that half an hour ago. I wondered what my ex was from 3 years earlier was doing. Still infatuated. Like the NYE scene in Forrest Gump.

2003 Buddy Chris from NYE 2000 had just broken it off with his woman. We went skiing in Lake Tahoe. Decided to come back home for NYE. Went to a party. As soon as we walked in Elisa looked at Chris and asked: Who's that? "Ian's friend, he doesn't know anyone here." Elisa leaped the couch, tumbled past the finger foods, clothes lined one girl, grabbed the chandelir Indianna Jones style swung over to Chris and dragged him to the dance floor. Or something to slightly, and only slightly, less dramatic effect. Ty and I decided to leave.

Someone asked: aren't you going to say goodbye to your friend?

No.

Does he know your leaving?

No.

How's he going to get back to your house?

Idunno.

Aren't you worried about him?

No.

They got engaged on the plane up to SF from San Diego on NYE 2004.


2004 weight 230. body fat 24% looking better. I was inviteed to a party bus with about two dozen of my new friends. It was a blast. Several of them only remember what happened becuase of the pictures. The one girl grabbed me by the lapel and yelled: You're like me. We got core strength. Than she hit me in the belly and jumped on my buddies back and rode him around the car. I started taling to a friend of Chris and Elisa. I don't remember his name. His wife was standing with her back to us. She reached back to grab her husbands....private area. But instead grabbed and held mine. She actually seemed to realize that it wasn't her regular one after about 30 seconds. She "eeeked" and ran off. I commented that he was a lucky man. We laughed it off.

2005 I don't remeber. Right now. Actually, '03 and 04may have been '04 and '05. Anyway...

2006 I had ten people over for the pre NYE party dinner. Much drinking and hijinx ensue. At about 1230 my very beautiful and drunk date and another woman at the party dragged me into the bedroom and they started making out. I'm not usually into that, but that was hot. My date realized that she was kissing a woman and not me and left. She called a few minutes later: Hi, it's your friend the lesbian. I just got home. I'm going to pack and move away. It was a lovely party."

2007 My girlfriend that I had been seeing for about 10 months and I went to dinner. Drank a bottle of wine and passed out at 1130. Yippeee

2008 That really was not just the worst New Years I've ever had. But probably one of the most insulting nights I've ever had.

Ah well, forward is good. 2009 abounds with promise and hope. Barrak Obama is going to become President in about three weeks and I am hopeful that world will regain some sense of sanity. Or at least that my dating life will ...WTF, right?