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As a means of clearing out the emotional baggage that has rather stuborrnly decided to linger from all of 2006, I've been going through my apartment today and putting practically everything into garbage bags in preparation for the ol' Chuck-It-Out-Woo-Happy-New-Year ritual that will occur tomorrow (hangover dependent). I never realised just how much crap I own until I started going through the boxes in my closets. See, these boxes have been there for a good, ooh, 18 months since I first moved in here. I figure that if I can live without their contents for that long, I can live without them forever. Except for this book, and that book, and the boomerang to remind me of home (cause ya know, I'm so aboriginal), oh and maybe I should get this 5 year old roll of film developed.

GODS!

I really need to just de-clutter everything and be done with it. There is, however, a slight flaw in this plan. Namely my 300+ books and my inability to just throw books away. There is a store in Paris which buys second-hand books, but you know, that would require putting books into car, driving into Paris and then doing a bit of a haggle (no no, that's four for the gourd) with the storekeeper. Meh. I considered giving the books away to people at work, but I don't know how many early-20-year-old Game Masters with a penchant for sci-fi would be too interested in historical fiction. Double meh.

The Plan™ for tonight is as follows:

1. Relax and watch some film, possibly Pan's Labyrinth


2. Eat dinner. Much food. Pasta. Fill belly.


3. Shower and dress. The Dress™ and boots. Do hair, makeup, etc. Possibly find solution to max cleavage issue.


4. Head on over to Party #1. Mingle. Have one drink only, woman. Stay until around 10pm.


5. Head on over to Party #2. Parteh with friends and remember to be nice to The Boy and not embarass him in front of his cousin. Do not drink too much, you're driving.


6. Come home (alone, since The Boy can't come with) and take makeup off before going to bed (haha, yeah right).


7. REMEMBER TO TAKE CAMERA TONIGHT!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Had a fantastic night, last night. Had a dinner party at Christian's place with his wife, Nikolaj and Torsten from work. We had Raclette, which was just lovely (and very filling!). Just before midnight, we went for a walk to the Chateau in Versailles to join all the festivities, but there was nothing going on in the town. All the pubs were even closed! (YA RLY) So we watched some people set of firecrackers for a bit and walked around. We then went back to Christian's and drank some more while Christian and Torsten smoked cigars. Then some more people from work came by. They'd been in Paris, which was just as dead. What the hell were the French doing for New Year's last night? Sleeping?

Anyway, some pics of the evening can be found here. They were taken with my phone's camera, hence the crappy quality.

Today is the also known as "Holy Shit my apartment is a mess, I'd better clean it" Day. I've sorted all my books (hundreds) and have put aside those I want to store in my closets. The rest will stay on the shelves, but they still take up all the room on them, I might have to go through and put some more in storage so I have room for my CDs and games. Then I need to go and chuck out papers, and all sorts of shit. I'm such a hoarder, it's gross. Thank god I'm not hungover, I doubt I'd be able to do this if I were.

I made some resolutions, some serious and some taken from a random resolution generator. Those ones were pretty funny, and following a theme. The first was to sleep my way to the top, and the second was to be more of a slut. Hmm. Serious resolutions include quitting smoking, exercising more and not hoarding so much shit in my apartment.

I'll leave you all with a picture full of wisdom and truth. It's Christian, at his best.

( Haha, he'll kill me )