We’re so freaking exciting.
It is 2010. This past New Year’s Eve, instead of waiting for all our computers to explode from Y2K, we were all just so relieved to leave 2009 in the dust. Cale and I decided to celebrate in a more low-key way: by watching random TLC shows about the super-obese and primordial dwarfs, while drinking hot chocolate (the fancy kind on the side of the Hershey’s can) spiked with Bailey’s. So for those who are so anxious to hang out, be warned, we are not exciting. In fact, it’s official we’re boring.
It was so mundane, that I didn’t even realize that we were embarking on a new decade. Or that just ten years earlier, we were entering a new century. And then I remembered what I had been doing ten years ago.
me: “Babe do you remember what you were doing ten years ago?”
Cale: “No.”
me: “Really you don’t? Not even a little?”
Cale: “No.”
me: *pouts*
Cale: Hanging out with you?
me: YES!
Well Cale wasn’t anxious to stroll with me down memory lane, but ten years ago, Cale and I were spending New Year’s together! I had totally forgotten. If you haven’t been a reader for long, I posted a couple years back about “our beginning”. It started in 1998 as friends, and we were shortly boyfriend and girlfriend from 1999 to 2000. Well, as much as you can be boyfriend and girlfriend at fifteen years old. That New Year’s Eve, my childhood neighborhood threw a new years eve block party complete with bounce house and barbecue. And Cale was there. I vaguely remember the night, and I don’t even know if he was allowed to stay until midnight (most likely not). But how fun it is to know that ten years ago, we were just two teenagers running around a cul-de-sac with my neighbors, eating food, and jumping around the bounce house when the little kids left.
Here’s to many more New Years together and to actually making plans next year. The way we spent it this year was just plain embarrassing.
Tags: Entertaining Ourselves, Love, Memories
Hey welll, I love those “boring old Corwins”!!!
And seriously, hot chocolate with Bailey’s ftw! For some reason your comment about TLC shows totally made me laugh out loud – probably because I watch these shows often 
There’s nothing wrong with staying in for NYE. Tyler and I almost stayed in this year.
Sometimes I wish blogging was the thing to do back in the old days so we could blog when we were teenagers. I’d love to read what I thought/did in the old days.
I totally agree! I was kicking myself for not even keeping so much as a diary back then. Sure, I may be completely embarrassed by the craziness of me as a teenager, but I hate that I can barely remember anything from back then. I had a diaryland diary and livejournal at some point but I deleted those a few years ago without thinking that I should save them.
staying in on new year’s is perfection to me. I can’t wait for the time to come when I’m with my future hubby and we ring in the new year from the comfort of our couch.
We stayed in with his parents this year–thrilling, huh? I can’t drink, obviously, so there wasn’t even a tipsy new year ring in. Eric fell asleep at 11:00, so I smacked him at 11:50 to be awake with me, haha. To next year!
Noo, not boring. In fact, that hot chocolate you guys made sounds kind of amazing and we too are fascinated by those weird shows on TLC. It sounds like a nice, relaxing way to ring in the new year!
How great that you guys have been able to celebrate so many New Years together!
That sounds like an amazing New Year’s Eve. Nothing wrong with staying in.
And I think it’s so cool that y’all knew each other ten years ago. And saw each other on NYE.
Happy New Year back! Um.. can we make plans now??
I finally realized what has been missing from my winter. Spiked hot chocolate. Thank you.
ah, new years is over rated anyway!
and, i saw a primordial dwarf in the flesh in denver. it was awesome.
Happy New Year! We spent New Years watching crap on TV, and we went to bed at 11. What a thrill.
I forgot that Cale was there that New Years Eve. That is so cute. Aaaaah. You should have been at my cool party this year. At least work guarantees that I will be awake at midnight. I heard a rumor that there is some debate whether or not you were awake at midnight. hehe. Love you guys!!!
Dude, Steph! You guys are totally not boring. To be honest, I love low-key evenings like that. (Maybe Jay and I are an old married couple, but we love it.)
And I LOVE that you guys watched those TLC programs! Gahhh! The ones on primordial dwarves always make me cryyyy. Did you see the one with the girl who was sad because the kids at school called her a baby? Oh my gawwww. TLC specials are my addiction – when Jay and I are channel surfing and we come across one on the morbidly obese we give eachother looks like:
“Oh, do you want to watch this?”
“Um, I don’t know. Do you?”
“Well, you can change it if you want to.”
“No, it’s fine. I mean, if you want to watch it.”
LOL. I love it.
And that’s all to say: I love me some primordial dwarves/morbidly obese people and I hope you and your hubby have a LOVELY new year/decade!
Hahaha it’s okay I’d totally hang out with you on new years watching TV and drinking HC & Bailey’s. (We drink that while doing karaoke on rock band sometimes, it’s awesome for winter nights in!!) Our new years was low key too – visiting with friends and just playing board games, and then conking shortly after midnight because we are now Old People
How wonderful you’ve been in each other’s lives for a whole decade now
Have a very happy new year & I’m looking forward to chatting lots more in it!