A Brand New and Improved Year.

...and a top o' the new year to you dudes and chicks, I do hope it was a bit alright.

The ladeez and I travelled down to Byron Bay for the pashfest that is New Years.

Now, I personally can't wrangle too much excitement out of that one night, since everyone is so desperate that it be The Very Best Night Ever. I'd almost rather go out every night but.

That said, we had a great time. Byron didn't have the big raves of yesteryear that close off the town, so we were able to drive in, park, hang at the beach all day and then dress up and drink up.

I designated driver'd up so I accidentally had more lemonade than I have ever, ever had. I was nearly hungover on sugar before midnight. None of us got trashed, it was a bit packed at the bars so it was actually too hard to drink too much, which works.

The place we went to was great. It is exactly called The Byron Hotel or the Balcony or the Beach House or something - it was full enough to be fun and friendly but you could totally grab a quiet spot when the crowd got a bit much. The music was totally daggy dancy 'I like big butts and I cannot lie' which can be a whole bit of fun on The Very Best Night Ever and when the crowd was daggied out, live music took the stage. The band was called True Live - hip hop with an orchestral string section and they were brilliant. Freakin'.

In other news:
Adam = Survivor.
I've survived the 7 Days of Mich, but not, bah, completely unscathed. I'm not sure that we'll be good friends furthermore. I totally like her one on one, but around everyone else, I just find her dishonest to everyone and to herself and so I now rate myself : OD'd.

In way groovier news:
Adam = Fully Awesome.
The other dude in our gang of nine asked, no, demanded, no, actually just asked that he teach me to skim board. Skimboarding is where you chuck a smooth board on a centimetre of water and then jump on it and slide along. Think socks on a shiny floor.
I tried it for a bit and I sucked more than the suckiest sucker that ever did suck. Then later I tried again and, impossibly, I sucked even more. The next day I tried again and I was the best skim boarding dude the world ever did see. Seein' my sweet skimmin' skills, I said I was 'bodacious to the max', the ninja turtles said I was a 'cowabunga' and Cara said I did 'very well'. You can't get bigger praise than that, my friends, you just can't.

For New Years Resolutions I'm going to make the following changes:
- Teach myself Parkour.
- Replace offensive sentences that I say like 'Those Citizens of a Different Birthplace Whom Share Our One Beautiful World' with 'darkies', etc.
- Read either more or less blogs - still undecided.