Happy new year

[liv]

I had a very enjoyable NYE chez shreena. Lots and lots of fun conversation, good food, moderate amounts of alcohol, good mixture of people; in short, pretty much an ideal party. Nice to catch up with elemy and jacquic (who should both post more), and another Persegirl (who should get an LJ in the first place). Also nice to meet some new people (awroe, smhwpf, synergetic, who mostly have sufficiently overlapping cirlces with mine that it was only a matter of time before we actually bumped into eachother).

At midnight we listened to Big Ben on Radio 2, and watched fireworks from shreena's conveniently large window, and waved to some revellers in the street who were being drunk and silly in cute ways. Then we carried on chatting for about another four hours.

The journey back sucked very much. Travelled with neonchameleon as far as London, and then things went very pear-shaped in ways involving a two-hour delay and much faffing about to get me home slightly after 8 pm. At which point Mum's insanely huge chanukah party was just wrapping up, so I spent about an hour and a half washing up, while being polite and smiley to all the guests who wandered into the kitchen with vaguely helpful intentions.

At some point the guests actually managed to leave (yes, I know you're Jewish, but did you really have to stand in the doorway for quite that long?), then food and collapsing into bed happened. We have lots of yummy leftovers from the party, including quite ridiculous amounts of cheeeeese. Happy new year, all.

Comments

[synergetic.livejournal.com]

yes, I know you're Jewish, but did you really have to stand in the doorway for quite that long?

Amazing how many things seem common to both Jewish and Polish parents. I thought it was generally Poles who did that...

Twas nice to have met you too after seeing you muchly on LJ.

[liv]

*waves* I'm very amused that the being unable to get through doors thing isn't only Jewish. And yay for shreena making connections between people who would otherwise only know eachother at second degree via LJ.

[shreena.livejournal.com]

Indians do the door thing too. It's really really annoying in winter.

[awroe.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear your journey took so long and you missed the party. Trains can suck at times... Although I've not seen the number of problems that kht seems to have every time she travels. Do you know if you can get any compensation?

'Twas good to meet you.

[liv]

I'm glad I got to meet you too. (And you did a great job of reading out the Scruples scenarios, thank you.)

I didn't actually particularly want to go to the party, but it would have been more fun than sitting around on trains for 6 hours! And I'd only got permission to go out for NYE on condition I would come back in time to help with the party. But it's certainly true that I have had more annoying train delays. And I have applied for compensation, as a matter of course, but I have no idea whether I'll get it.

[awroe.livejournal.com]

:) And a great job of not having to answer the ones I didn't want to too.

At least you had a good reason for not arriving until too late... And you had a book, which helps. Provided the delays don't last so long you finish it off :)

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

'Twas lovely to meet you! Hope we shall have occasion to meet again some time. Have a great 2006!

[liv]

*bounce* Pleased to meet you too. And I expect we'll run into eachother, at least virtually now that we've been introduced. Happy new year to you too.

[kht.livejournal.com]

Don't you just love public transport? I think I got off lightly with 4.5 hours.

[liv]

Well, I wouldn't have been able to get to the party at all without public transport, so I have to love it to some extent. But yeah, it wasn't very pleasant.