Monica
January 3, 2005

My 2004 Memorable New Year's Eve

Whoosh! The squishy cushion couch deflated as I jumped on it in search of a good New Year's Eve program to watch. I knew that tomorrow my thumbs would hurt from all the button pushing I was doing. Every year we find either a concert or a New York New Year's program that is totally awesome and exciting to watch. Not this year. This year we decided to watch the Top 10 Funniest Commercials Of 2004. It was a blast! The program shortly ended though. Then the blast of the Spanish channel confused me with its foreign language and constant commercials. My mom was harassing me by telling me to watch it anyway and firmly encouraged me to try to learn a new language. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0!!

My ears hurt as we popped the champagne bottle and watched it fiz for four seconds. The sparkle of the mini fireworks that my mom lighted stung my eyes with smoke. For a minute or two, my nose stung with the horrible smell. For the rest of the evening, I still could sniff a stench in the air. My Mom and I were tired but we still stayed up. I felt my eyes slowly closing to the sound of the program.

As I slowly climbed step by step up the stairs I was thinking about our 2004 annual, never-finding-a-program-to-watch-on-TV New Years!!