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Well, I survived day one of this year.  It was fairly easy.  I didn’t get out of bed.  Well, I did get out of bed at various times throughout the day.  I just didn’t stay out of bed.

I didn’t plan on staying in bed all day.  It just sort of worked out that way.

Our New Year’s Eve celebration of video games, bagna calda, and Riesling wine until 3:00 a.m. made it impossible for my body to even consider waking up until after 11:00.  When my eyes finally did crack open and I stumbled out to the front room I found The Man taking down the Christmas decorations and watching some football game on TV.  He had the storage boxes stacked up all over the living room.  On the chairs, the coffee table, the love seat and even the couch.  There was barely enough room for the dogs to find an uncomfortable spot to lie down in, let alone for me to recover from my wineover.

I bid him a good morning, made the obligatory offer to help which I knew would be turned down, then made my way to the kitchen to get that wonderful black gold.  Coffee, that is.  Cream, two sugars if anybody cares.

The sun streaming in through the kitchen windows grated on my retinas so bad that I made coffee with my sunglasses on and I still had to squint.  There was no way I was going to be able to stay in the kitchen and retain what eyesight I have left.  As soon as that coffee pot beeped that it was done, I fixed me a cup, grabbed my smokes, and headed back to the dark recesses of the house and the only television set I have any control over.

I figured that before trying to take on the rest of the day and the ever mounting pile of laundry, I would drink my coffee, scan through the channels, and let my head recover from the devastating effects of three glasses of wine.  Yeah, I know I’m a lightweight.  It was a good plan too, if only it wasn’t New Year’s Day Splatterday on The Movie Channel.

The first movie I found was The Objective.  I came in late on that one and I’m definitely going to have to watch it again to see if I can figure out what the hell was going on.  Then The Shortcut came on and since I had previously caught a snippet and it looked interesting, I had to watch the whole thing.  After that was The Devil’s Ground and by the time Rob Zombie’s Halloween II was getting started it was dinner time.

After dinner and cleaning up the kitchen, back to the bedroom I went.  I caught the last part of Halloween II and then on to Sorority Row.  I would have stayed back there to watch Eden Lake, Buried Alive and Severance, but The Man kicked me out because he wanted to go to sleep.  I guess it would be a little hard for some to fall asleep with the sounds of breaking bones and people screaming bloody murder.  Since nobody else in the house likes to watch those movies, I guess I’ll have to save them for another day, another time.  They’ll be on again and probably again and again.  That’s the beauty of cable.

All in all it wasn’t a productive day, but it was entertaining.  I do love horror movies, even some of the bad ones.  For me, even a bad horror movie is better than doing a load of laundry.  Especially, the whites.

I hope you all had a safe celebration and that this year will be a happy one for you.