New Year

It's 2005. Yesterday we had breakfast at Lumes in Villa Park at 10:00 a.m. We ate enough to skip lunch. The temperatures were in the 50's hard to believe for December. We stopped at the Target near Yorktown to pay part of our credit card bill. It was a pretty lazy day. We had a bunch of appetizers for dinner. We watched the New Year's celebrations on ABC Channel 7. We saw the ball drop in Time's Square with Regis Philbin's commentary. Dick Clark didn't do it this year for the first time in 38 years. The parties on T.V. looked pretty lame. I tried to talk the boys into taking a ride downtown to see the fireworks by Buckingham Fountain and Navy Pier. They didn't want to leave the house. We were asleep by 12:30 a.m. It was a pretty lazy day for the last day of 2004. All the Christmas decorations are down and put away until next year. It sure goes quick. Back to the regular routine Monday. I have a couple things I want to try and accomplish this year. I finished reading Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation" and started Bob Greene's "Once Upon A Town" about the North Platte Canteen where the troop trains stopped on their way across country during World War II. I enjoy reading Bob Greene's books because they're nostalgic and stir up great memories. I always enjoyed and tried to read his column when it was in the Chicago Tribune. I'm on a World War II nostalgia kick. I might read Stephen Ambrose's "D-Day." We'll see how that goes. We'll see how blogging every day goes.