Well, here we are in the year 2015. Hope everyone made it
safely across the threshold between 2014 and 2015. Many people go crazy
celebrating and they do stupid things that end their life at Midnight of the
old year.
We celebrated the evening by going out for supper to
Larter’s (it’s a restaurant in a golf course) with our friends Rudi and Hedi.
We ate scampies, shrimp, octopus, oysters, and other good stuff. Even some
meat. It was a buffet and it was good. We were home and alone at 10:00 P.M.. So
we watched the continuation of the movie ‘The Councilor’ which we had started
watching a couple of nights before, but stopped watching it because we found it
boring. We had nothing else to watch (the New Years celebrations on TV are
non-watchable for us because of the music).
The Councilor actually wasn’t as bad as we assumed. Kind of
slow and kind of weird. At times the plot was hard to follow and we didn’t know
who the good and bad guys were, but as we watched the movie we found there
weren’t any good guys. The movie was directed by Ridley Scott and stars Michael
Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, and Brad Pitt. The story was written
by Cormac McCarthy. There were some weird sex scenes and a few violent scenes.
It was a strange movie. The ending was okay. We sort of liked it.
We shut off the movie five minutes before midnight and
flicked the channels on the TV to find a channel that would announce the New
Year. The ones that broadcast the celebration from New York were already finishing up, because
it was close to 1:00 A.M. there, but we found a local station just in time to
see the fireworks. Almost missed it. If I remember correctly we did miss it
2013/2014. We drank a glass of champagne and then finished watching the movie.
I know, it sounds boring, but that’s how it is these days
for us older folks. When we were young and all our friends were young, too, we
had parties with music and dancing, with good food and lots of laughter, but
that’s all gone now. The few that are still alive are as old or even olden than
us and nobody has the energy to do much celebrating. Even the clubs that used
to put on nice New Years dinners and dances have disappeared. The ones who
supported them are old or gone and the young people are not interested. It is a
shame but that’s how things change. Nothing stays forever.
Time to plan the new year. Hopefully, it brings only good
and pleasant things.
Happy
New Year and all the best to all my friends who read this. Stay
healthy and enjoy each day as if it is your last. At our age it may very well
be ☺
See you next time.
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