Translation: Happy New Year! Hello 2004 and Hello Blogger! I'm still tweaking the format so bear with me. I pray a prosperous new year for all. I rang in the New Year with my family at a downtown Seattle hotel and I am exhausted. We had a good time drinking (apple cider...duh), popping cap guns, and playing, brace yourselves, Scattegories. Ya'll ain't ready for us!! Watch out because we're real party animals in my family. Went to bed at 4am which is an unholy hour and way past my bedtime. Amelia and I managed to fit in a swim in the morning at the pool. Much to our chagrin, we arrived to find out that the luxurious pool we were expecting had become "the kiddie pool". So instead we chilled out in the jacuzzi. However, I must express my extreme concern for the declining state of hotel establishment swimming pools. A 5-foot deep pool is just no fun. Couple that with rules like no running, no jumping, and no diving and you have the most boring swimming pool on the face of this earth. I know about the whole insurance liability piece, but really I hate it. Insurance companies = fun crushers.

I intend to spend the rest of my New Year's day eating like the glutton I am. I have no New Year's resolutions. I only resolve to do the things I know I should be doing, and serve God faithfully. That's already enough for me to handle.