I think it's the only time I've ever "partied" with someone famous. This year turned out sedate but fun. Having the entire day off from work, I called CS, and we met on Friday at Disneyland for a bite of lunch and a movie before heading to a NYE party at our friends everbear and KL's house in Orange.
We saw The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, a bizarrely funny movie with great performances from Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson and the entire cast. (If you enjoyed and , you will definitely enjoy this movie.) Afterward, CS returned home to get ready for the party, and I wandered around Downtown Disney, killing time because I didn't want to drive the 40 minutes back home only to have to immediately turn around and drive back.
I eventually left, walking as slowly as possible to the car. I didn't want to arrive too early to the party so I sat in my car, changed out of my wet shoes and socks, and pulled out the Thomas Guide to map how to get to their house. When I finally exited the parking structure, the rain slowed traffic down - thankfully - but not enough.
I managed to find their house without any problems, arriving 30 minutes early. My GST clock has never worked properly so I never make a fashionably late entrance. It's a weird trait with my family; we each have this unnerving ability to arrive early to anything.
Instead of parking and waiting for the half hour to pass, I remembered seeing a grocery store along the way so I doubled back and wandered the aisles looking for homemade chili sauce, a brick of cream cheese and Wheat Thins™ in order to make a tasty hors d'oeuvre. I couldn't find the chili sauce so I made due with some frosted sugar cookies. I drove back to everbear and KL's house, looked at my watch and do you know what?
I was still 5 minutes early. The party turned out to be a blast. Everbear made the most mouthwatering turkey I've ever had the pleasure to eat.
The meat literally fell from the bones without having to carve and was so moist and tender...
. I think that contributed to my weight gain over the weekend. The homemade fudge may have played a role, too.
We watched the movie Nine Dead Gay Guys while we pigged out, then flipped back and forth among the different countdown shows. Come midnight, we set off the confetti poppers and toasted in the New Year. Then, we sat back and watched Jackass: The Movie.
Those are some pretty sick straight boys. I find it odd that they will rope walk over a pit of croclodiles with a dead chicken dangling from their jocks, pour chum in their shorts and dive after whale sharks, and shoot bottle rockets from their bums, but try to get one of them to kiss another guy and it's as though you asked them to commit murder. The next morning turned out to be beautiful.
The rain cleared much of the smog and haze from the skies, and though it was still cloudy and threatened rain, I could still see the clear outline of Santa Catalina Island 26 miles away. I walked to the end of the Huntington Beach Pier again, watching the pelicans along the way as they circled and dove around the fishing boats and oil drilling platforms. Ruby's Diner was open this time, and many families had chanced the clearer weather to dine over the Pacific Ocean.
I sat at the counter and treated myself to a double bacon cheeseburger. The rain started again just before I made it back to my house. My cousin called a while later, and we decided to see A Very Long Engagement after he returned from a family get-together.
The film is set during World War I, with Audrey Tatou ( I think it's the only time I've ever "partied" with someone famous.
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