HOW I SPENT MY NEW YEARS VS HOW MY FAMILY SPENT THEIRS...

So I worked on New Year's Eve, arriving home an hour and half prior to midnight. So I decided I'll have my last shower for 2008, clean the house, chuck a hissy fit at the person who didn't refill the cordial bottle and blog on my KOL profile. It was ten minutes till midnight, the house was clean and I was at home alone with five cats. All of them whinging to be let out, but due to past experiences all of them had to be lock down with me till after the fireworks had finished or I would be greeted with a four thousand dollar vet bill if one of them decided to run across the street to hide because they were scarred of the crackling lights.

"Three minutes till midnight and I'm drinking vodka alone." I said sighing when I checked the time on my laptop. I slam the laptop shut and nurtured my fifth glass of vodka and headed to the lounge, switching the TV on. My laptop must of been slow because the fireworks were blinding blarring me into shock. I'd missed the count down and tipsyly sat on the couch watching the fireworks pop and sprout into to rainbow coloured lights. Leo crawled onto my lap and curled into a ball purring. I gently pat his head and whisper "Happy New Year Silly Cat."

The fireworks were as boring as my night alone on New Year's Eve. Hearing people's geniunely fake comments on how great they were made me realise I was a little bitter on how my night turned out. "Bull!" I said sacastically scoffing the screen footage of people being interviewed by host asking what they thought, so I killed the power and head to the room. I decided to start watching NCIS Season 4. I'd become addicted to the show four days ago and had managed to watch one season of NCIS a day. Not episodes, but SEASONS.

By 2am the phone rang and I relunctantly had to pause Gibbs in the middle of his dialogue. I decided to answer the phone as if I had just woken up. "HAPPY NEW YEAR LILLIAS!" The mystery caller wished me. I could tell it was a long distances call and it dawned on me that my favourite Aunty Betsy from the States had called to wish me a Happy New Year! I immediately smile and wish her the same in return. Apparently while I was surfing the net on New Year's Eve, I had gone on Aunty Betsy's Bebo page and SOS her how I was spending my NYE. My SOS comment on her page must of triggered Aunty-C's motherly instinct of sympathy for me (lol), but regardless of the reason I was just glad she called me. So we talked till 5.30am - I love my Aunty C to bits.

Meanwhile......

Up the coast in a place called New Castle, Maitland. My brother Boi and cousins - Sou, Si'i, Kat, Ben and his beautiful fiance Bec were partying like it was 2009 at the club. And here are the pictures to prove it.


Sou, Boi & Bec



Boi & Bec struttin' their Blue Steel Poses



Kat & Bec hanging at the Bar



Sou, Boi, Kat & Bec on the dance floor



Boi, Sou's body & Ben trying to show 'some' muscles...lol



Sibling Photo - Ben & Kat



Sou & Ben (Still trying to figure out what Sou's doing????)



Bec & Sou (You can tell Sou has had a few because his smiling lol)



Boi & Ben

I don't think I need to explain what they got up to for NYE - the pictures speak for themselves, compared to my night *signals one thumbs down (I missed the count down and I was drinking by myself) and one thumbs up (because Aunty C called! :D)*