Happy New Year!
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mothwingHappy New Year, everyone!!
Have a great night and a great year 2009!
There are already good news for the new years, too: Terry Pratchett is now Sir Terry.
Why I'm on LJ half an hour before midnight? Crocky's caught a cold and is fast asleep. I think I'll just wake her briefly at midnight and then let her sleep again and watch the fireworks in the city centre from our window.
Edit: We did watch the fireworks from our window. Our neighbourhood is thankfully full of very rocket-happy people who all live in apartment building, so more fireworks come per square meter of street than in my part of Hamburg, resulting in a multicoloured sky for hours.
View from our window, which was still slightly icy from the day.
People were also at it in the inner courtyard, and...
...I kept wondering...
...how...
...that tree survived. Of course, a few times it just looked as though the rockets or other fireworks actually landed in the tree, but there were several times when I was pretty sure they did.
I'm somehow really glad that the courtyard is not our responsibility. One family tradition I really don't miss is going through our garden, collecting rockets and other old remains of fireworks on the first of January while keeping the dog from eating them. Usually, we found twice the amount of fireworks and firecrackers in our garden than we had actually used ourselves, as neighbourhood kids usually throw in quite a lot over the fence to annoy us and our dogs.
There seemed to be a lot going on on the main street, too.
It became obvious how foggy it had become when we looked out of the bedroom window. There's usually a huge, big tower with a VW sing on top down the road, and there, it isn't.
The people from across the road had prettier fireworks than the ones in the courtyard.
They even had a couple of those automatic rocket-launch thingies in different colours with several, er, rockets.
The people on the other side of the courtyard had prettier colours, though.
So, welcome to 2009. I hope it's going to be a good one for all of you.
Have a great night and a great year 2009!
There are already good news for the new years, too: Terry Pratchett is now Sir Terry.
Why I'm on LJ half an hour before midnight?
Edit: We did watch the fireworks from our window. Our neighbourhood is thankfully full of very rocket-happy people who all live in apartment building, so more fireworks come per square meter of street than in my part of Hamburg, resulting in a multicoloured sky for hours.
View from our window, which was still slightly icy from the day.
People were also at it in the inner courtyard, and...
...I kept wondering...
...how...
...that tree survived. Of course, a few times it just looked as though the rockets or other fireworks actually landed in the tree, but there were several times when I was pretty sure they did.
I'm somehow really glad that the courtyard is not our responsibility. One family tradition I really don't miss is going through our garden, collecting rockets and other old remains of fireworks on the first of January while keeping the dog from eating them. Usually, we found twice the amount of fireworks and firecrackers in our garden than we had actually used ourselves, as neighbourhood kids usually throw in quite a lot over the fence to annoy us and our dogs.
There seemed to be a lot going on on the main street, too.
It became obvious how foggy it had become when we looked out of the bedroom window. There's usually a huge, big tower with a VW sing on top down the road, and there, it isn't.
The people from across the road had prettier fireworks than the ones in the courtyard.
They even had a couple of those automatic rocket-launch thingies in different colours with several, er, rockets.
The people on the other side of the courtyard had prettier colours, though.
So, welcome to 2009. I hope it's going to be a good one for all of you.
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Date: Thursday, January 1st, 2009 09:57 am (UTC)I was on my own, last night. Following your advice to take time for myself, as the 3rd day of Christmas had indeed been a little much, family-wise. :)
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Date: Thursday, January 1st, 2009 12:14 pm (UTC)Well, alone-time can be a blessing, too. I went home a day too early, I found, but it was good seeing as I got some work done. If time with your family was really stressful, it's a good thing that you were able to have a break.
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Date: Thursday, January 1st, 2009 02:02 pm (UTC)Anyway, x-mas, it became stressful on day 3 at least. But we all went home after lunch that day already and I haven't seen my family since. Mum was here for a minute yesterday to bring along some stuff, but other than that I was alone. Thankfully. :) - When did you leave for Hamburg?
Btw.: the pics look as if you're back in Hannover, too, no? - Did you two get my lil' Christmas surprise all right? ;)
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Date: Friday, January 2nd, 2009 07:11 pm (UTC)And I love the book. I never actually bought it, just got it from the library and had to return it before I had quite finished it, so this is perfect, thank you very much. How did you choose that one? I was pretty surprised when I read that you had read that I had read it and had already picked it by that time, so - how? Through mind-reading? I've been wanting to read that book for ages!
I feel really bad for not having a present for you, though, as this was so unexpected. :( I hope you're not upset because of that.
I'm sorry to hear that your Christmas was so stressful. I hope it was just a sort of generic holiday-stress and not something that will have more serious consequences or continue into the new year.