Missives From Obscurity

New Year's Day, 2006

I rang in the New Year by myself, home with my cats. I drank nothing, I kept the television off. Dinner was an In-and-Out number one combo (double-decker with fries and a Coke) with strawberry ice-cream for dessert. I played the Sims Hot Date. I built up my downtown area more to my liking, building a couple of new restaurants, one called Poseidon’s Grotto and one called The Atrium (very posh, the Atrium) and touching up the public swimming pool I built downtown. I worked my Sims (Steve Python and Adam Eden) hard to make their relationship work while keeping them in their jobs (Steve has already lost two, computer hacker and pickpocket, and is now back to hacking computers) and also making friends (these goddamn Hot Date Sims are so fickle and difficult with their interpersonal lives… they kiss and hug and play footsie, but you invite them home and it’s drama thrown all over the room about how far you go and how disgusting your behavior is… drama bitch queens!). Around midnight I finally got Steve Python to move in with Adam Eden. The combined household finances allowed them to move to a more fabulous property. After six hours of playing (oh, don’t even judge me!!!), at 12:30 a.m., I shut the game down, shut the computer off, and went to bed.

If, one year, you, dear reader, are out in your BMW, driving from New Year’s party to New Year’s party, being witty, being clever, being divine and being fabulous, surrounded by gorgeous men in tuxedos and stunning women in glittering gowns (or stunning men in glittering gowns and gorgeous women in tuxedos, depending on which clubs you frequent), sipping the best champagnes and the cheapest whiskeys, kissing the sensual lips of your randy, sometimes kinky date/spouse/roommate/hustler/drunken-mistake-of-all-time-the-morning-after-horror in a sea of confetti, noise makers and fireworks you suddenly take pause and wonder to yourself “Huh… I wonder what the sad, lonely, pathetic set are doing this New Year’s Eve”… now you’ll know! They’re playing video games at home alone.

Happy New Year to my loyal readers, those I know and those of you who remain very, very quiet. Thanks to all those readers who’ve kept at me to get my ass in gear and write something more past the 100% Natural Guy! Thanks to those of you who I’ve never met, who’ve left your little fingerprints on my Blog with your comments. And to all of you my best wishes for 2006, because 2005 really sucked rotten, ugly eggs and ass for me, and I’m hoping we all see a brighter year this year (and maybe the impeachment of our George W. regime)! Good luck! God/Buddha/Allah/etc. bless you and keep you! Cheers!

posted by Joe Lopez @ 2:13 PM