Goodbye To The Old, Hello To The New ...

First of all a very Happy and Blessed New Year to all my my visitors, new and old :D I wish you guys nothing but the best in all that you do. May peace, joy and happiness fall upon you. May the gods of prosperity fill you with tons of money for 2008. Ok, ok enough with that already ... LOL! Just remember to send some money my way if that god of prosperity does indeed decided to dump a landfill full of cash in your back yard or something :D

The New Year for me was ushered in watching a marathon of X-men movies last night. I've watched those movies before but how could I not watch it for the zillionth time again especially when they were screening the whole trilogy at one go last night! Actually, it really didn't seem like the old year was ending and a new one was beginning. It felt like any old Monday night to me. Maybe it's cos I'm way past the partying mode. What to do, old fogeys like me don't party no more. We just sit home, laze in front of the TV with a beer can in hand and vegetate away ... ahhh, now that's life ... hehehe ...

I did take a bath right after New Year though. It's kind of a tradition for me to bathe just after midnight. Nothing really associated to bathing at midnight though. It's just something that was passed down by generations in my family to take bath after midnight on New Years day to kinda symbolically wash away the old years bad luck and start the New Year clean and fresh. I'm not really one who believes in such things but I don't know why I still practice this tradition though. Who knows, maybe there might be some truth in it and better safe than sorry ... LOL! I'm sure there are loads of traditions like these practiced the world over. What about you guys? Do you have any such tradition or taboos? Tell me about it, sure would love to know if there are other weirdos like me out there ... LOL!

Today was just spent preparing the kids stuff for school tomorrow. Woke up pretty late today, took wifey and the boys for breakfast, then came home and started looking into the kids stuff for school. Had a lot of ironing to do cos all the boys school clothes were new and had lots of folding lines on it. And boy, ironing brand new shirts and pants can be quite a task.

The ironing of the boys clothes are my responsibility cos wifeys in charge of the washing and drying. Besides she can't iron for nuts! LOL! Sorry hon, but that's the honest to goodness truth :D We share most of our responsibilities at home and that's just the way we like it :) With the ironing out of the way, I'm left with some time to update my blogs a little and that was after dragging wifey away from the laptop ... LOL!

The rest of the day is going to be spent vegetating in bed or something but before I head off, let me tell you what happened to my missing neighbours. Boy, what happened to them is so shocking it would make your skin crawl. You probably wouldn't believe such things still happen in this day and age. I'm still not sure I believe it even now. Such tragedy, such a despicable act!

I think you guys know that one of my neighbours just upped and disappeared before Christmas and no one even knew they moved, not even their immediate next door neighbour. It's a huge undertaking moving house without anyone knowing. They even took all their platform beds with them! I was so set on finding out what happened to them and faced lots of dead ends regarding their disappearance. I was at wits end figuring out what to do next.

But wifey was way better at me in this investigative game than I am. She went and asked my mom. You see, my mom is like the neighbour bulletin centre. She knows everything that goes on in this neighbourhood. And the answer was so simple yet it still sends a shock wave through me.

They just moved because they bought a new and bigger house and sold the old one! Yes, they just moved people ... LOL! Nothing sinister happened to them at all, no conspiracy theories and such. Damn, and here I was expecting something like maybe they were kidnapped and made sacrificial lambs or something ... LOL! Ohhh, all those days spent thinking up various reasons of what happened to them all boils down to them moving to a bigger house! Siggghhhh, maybe I should cut back on watching too much CSI's on TV for this year. I'm sure you guys had some sinister thoughts too, didn't you? Come on, admit it already ... LOL!

Well, I better vacate this laptop soon cos wifey is lurking around behind me waiting her turn to do some of her assignments. LOL! Ok, ok honey, I'm outta here already ... hehehe .... Happy 2008 folks :D