Well 2006 got off to a pretty good start for me today.
Woke up at 0700hrs even after going to bed late last night and went for a 6km jog with the wifey. We haven't done that together for a long time. I'm usually an evening-jogger kinda person. Ego took a slight beating cos the woman is now much fitter than me. I think I should get out of the gym and hit the tracks more often. After that we had a nice big brunch together with her family, another thing we haven't done on a Sunday morning in a while. I swear when I'm in a good mood, the Mother-in-law is less of a fire-breathing old dragon from Hades ;))
The afternoon was spent shopping. Boy we really don't want to see our credit card bills when they come in soon, too soon we reckon. December was already a month of Extreme Retail Therapy and we had to spend the first day of 2006 buying stuff as well. Clothes, jewellery, bags and books, 4 hours of making the credit cards all warm and fuzzy :)) Oh btw, we discovered this nice Abercrombie&Fitch-meets-BananaRepublic shop called Litmus at Queensway Shopping centre yesterday. Checkout their webbie at
www.litmusblue.com. Nice casual stuff for unkers and unties who refuse to age :)) They even ship overseas.
We had a New Year's garden BBQ over at the home of a good friend in the evening. Excellent meats, seafood, pasta and oh so much wine. I'm actually a little sloshed with the 8-10 glasses of German Riesling in my tummy. You could tell we were all quite tipsy when the group broke into Debbie Gibson's We Could Be Together, campfire-style remix, in the middle of the lawn, swaying and waving our lighters in the air ;))
Well, time spent with family and friends, with a spot of shopping and exercise thrown in. A perfect start to 2006 I say...:)