Sheila here...

A new year and new beginnings. We all say that and then by next week, every resolution is forgotten. Well I'm trying. I don't have any radical resolutions, but rather mini irritations of 2005 that I'd like to get rid of. I started yesterday by letting go of a past hurt that I shared with a sorority sister. She may not have released the incident, but we did have a conversation for the first time in about 8 months, so we are getting somewhere. I just don't have time for the drama, frankly. I am trying to work on procrastination as well. Nik and I are moving to the beach in just a few days, but really and truly we JUST started really packing. In the course of one day, we really put our heads to it and we got a lot done. I don't know if we thought the moving fairies were going to do it for us before.

Speaking of moving, we will be moving with a FREE, larger than we had, television. We came home from the grocery store on Saturday only to find that someone had put out a decent sized television. I didn't think anyone would get rid of a working television, but Nick wasn't too sure. After hauling it inside, it turned out that it worked just fine. Nick figures someone got a REALLY large screen tv for Christmas and just put this one out. Interesting...

Or New Year's weekend was pretty sweet. We went on a picnic with a friend and her boyfriend early in the evening before heading to the home of one of my sisters. She's significantly older than me, so I wasn't sure the party would be our thing, but to our surprise, people were really getting down. My sister and I share the same birthday, so counting down to '06 was especially exciting for both of us. Then we danced and danced. Goes to show you, older people, even ones in their seventies, can party :). After wards we went to hte home of of of Nick's teachers. We sat around a firepit dug into the ground in the backyard and reminisced over the past year. We got back home at about 3, pretty early for me, but hey, I'm getting old :).

For my birthday, Nick took me to a restaurant in South Beach. We had rested at home till it was way past dinner, expecting that restaurants would remain open to the wee hours. Well when we got on the beach, we saw this wasn't the case. I don't know if it was the fact that the beach had partied like it was 1999 and everyone needed rest or what, but restaurants were closing and we feared we'd be going hungry because the supermarkets were of course closed as well. At the last minute we found a tapas restaurant and it was DELICIOUS! Thanks Nick for a fab birthday :)

I'll post pics soon. Right now it is back to packing!