i just feel like writing because it's almost a new year and i am ready for anything.

so today it is december 28 and the rest of the week/weekend for me is going to be hellishly jammed with MEL'S RESTAURANT FURY AND INSANITY.  you never know what will happen.  tidal waves of people and madness will be rolling through the doors and piling up around the entranceway in their ski jackets and girls with sexy sweat pants with kiss marks on the butt and everyone wanting soup and salad combos and hot tea and i will be peeing my pants with no time to run to the bathroom.  i am scared.  very very scared. 

but at the same time it is weirdly exciting to work in a busy restaurant during the holidays and the wintertime when it is blustery outside and things are so insane inside that all you can (me and my coworkers) do is look at each other and laugh.  or cry.  but it makes me giddy somehow and i get in a good mood, like a really good mood and everyone i work with things i take some strange pills. 

meanwhile i have seven or eight glorious new books i got for christmas and all i want to do is cozy up at home with my cat and read all day and night.

it is nice that everyone is home and people are gathering at my house tonight and i saw king kong and was swept away into that mad magical world and i fell in love.  here is everyone who went with me:  mikie, mom, dad, gabbie, mario, joey, martin, stan, amy and matt.  i love having everyone here in town and it being cold and windy and people are sick and snotty but laughing about it.

coolest event of christmas:  my dad watched grizzlyman the documentary and LOVED it!!!  and now he is all fascinated with werner herzog and wants to see his other films and i am excited at my dad's deep curiosity in the human condition and spirit.

"martin is an old timer.  they don't make old timers anymore martin!" quote from my mom which i misunderstood but i love it nonetheless and it's true. 

"don't say shut up to your mom" me talking to mikie.

 "did you know that yogurt goes good with spicy food?"  mikie.

"no.  well i'm gonna do that next time."  martin.