Musings On The New Year (and Root Beer)

Happy New Year, everyone! 

... now what?

I always feel like the New Year is a little underwhelming after the excitement of Christmas. It's like an afterthought celebration. We go through an entire month of prep for Christmas, celebrate for about a week, take a day or two off, and then celebrate again. 

But what's so exciting about a new year? 

I mean, we restart our calendars, but what exactly are we celebrating? The Earth's survival throughout the tumultuous year of 2013? I suppose it was a big deal two years ago with the 2012 apocalypse brewing, but seriously. Were we really that worried that we weren't gonna make it?

That being said, I do like New Year's Eve. It's a chance to stay up ridiculously late and hang out with people I haven't seen in a while. Example: me, my little bros, and my friend Ben stayed up until 5:00 last night playing Minecraft. We party hard. 

So. 2013. It was a rollercoaster of a year. 

Yep. 

I could make this a deep, contemplative retrospective of the past 365 days, but that would take a long time and I'm tired. Suffice it to say that I'm more than happy with where life has taken me since this day back in 2013. Senior year was rough, but summer and college have been good to me.

You know what else is good for me? Root beer. Not in a health sort of sense, but I do enjoy a good root beer. Especially chilled in a glass bottle. That's how you know. 

I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of this post was. I kinda lost track.

Speaking of lost things, I may or may not have lost my wallet this week. So there's that. Guess who gets to go pick up a new driver's license tomorrow? This guy. 

I want root beer. 

I also want sleep. But I'm too awake to sleep. But no one else in the house is still up. 

It's official. I need to get back to school where insomnia is the norm. 

Just a few more days until I return home. I've loved being here, but it's time to go.

Back to school, the land flowing with pizza and root beer. 

It's really cold down here in the basement. I'm going to go curl up in a dozen or so blankets and watch Sherlock. I have to review before the new season starts! 

Song for tonight: The Call, by Regina Spektor. This was featured at the end of the film adaptation of Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis and has always been a favorite of mine. Now that I'm living in two worlds of my own, it has taken on some very new meaning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNsQewlFtEs

Goodnight, everybody! 

The Road goes ever on and on

Down from the door where it began.

Now far ahead the Road has gone,

And I must follow, if I can,

Pursuing it with eager feet,

Until it joins some larger way

Where many paths and errands meet.

And whither then? I cannot say.