May Good Fortune Be Upon You This New Year

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Last night, instead of being with family, I partied with a friend and her family. It was a type of party that I haven't been to since I was a kid. I'm the one who's usually away from home, but this time, I'm the only one who stayed at home. So instead of being lonely on New Year's Eve, I decided to take up my friend's invitation to come over and spend it with her family.

For the past ten years, every New Year's party or celebration I've been to involved beer and a lot of singing. Well, I don't really drink, but I'm not going to tell my friends to stop drinking either. It's their choice to make.


I'm sort of good with kids since I pretty much raised my cousins. I don't really have a hard time every time I try to win a kid's affection either. Same goes for animals. So needless to say, her kids already love me, as well as her dogs. LOL

We partied like children, ate and played games. We counted down and blew horns when the clock struck 12. We sang and I watched them while they ran around and into their houses while blowing the horns and screaming. This is definitely one happy family, was what I thought.

Now that 2014 has officially started, whatever your sign or belief is, I do wish everyone a very happy new year with new beginnings and abundance in everything good. Actually, this advice is applicable any time of the year, or at any point of your life. You can choose one or all of them.

  1. Make the most out of your time in this world. You won't have any other than yours.
  2. Choose to be happy.
  3. Be thankful. Life's too short to be hateful.
  4. Make friends. Seriously, you don't want to die without any, do you?
  5. If it gets too hard, get a good night's sleep and ask some friends to help you out.
  6. Fall in love. There are plenty of ways to fall in love, by the way.

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