happy new year all! hope everyone had a good one.
today is my last day off work. we have a mandatory break each year which is nice except the 5 days comes out of our holiday time. which means i really get 3 weeks per year instead of 4. or rather i get 4 but can only do what i want with 3 of them. it’s been really nice having time off since work has been very busy of late (and it will continue to be til probably april). i don’t really want to go into the office tomorrow.
pix!
don’t ask me why but aussies dress up in costume for xmas parties. they don’t get the whole halloween thing but come xmas party time and it’s fancy dress (as they say – how confusing… fancy dress isn’t black tie but dress up as a lion sort of thing). i had 3 xmas parties to attend this year and 2 were mandatory costume. the third had a ‘white’ theme and some folks took that as an invitation to dress up as well.
first party had a magic theme. i went as a voodoo princess. second party theme was circus/carney trash/cirque de soleil. i went as the bearded tattooed lady. not many pix of me w/in those so look on facebook… several coworkers put their pix up there.
here’s pix from new years eve. it was a pretty quiet one. bbq at some friends’ new house in the burbs. was 104f during the day & cooled down to a sultry 90f at midnight! i adore having new years in summer.
at the beginning of december i was thrown a surprise bday party (def a surprise as it was weeks before my bday!). pix here