Seeing my main girl (I wish) @adriella on the Front Page is a happy way to almost ring out the old year! I'm lucky enough to have two more days off before heading back to the old grindstone for a shortened work week. Fireworks have been on sale here since Friday, and while it's theoretically forbidden to use them before New Year's Eve, sporadic "gunfire" has been heard since yesterday. Berliners tend to go overboard with fireworks, turning the city into what amounts to a war zone, so we plan to not head out the door tomorrow night but stay safely hunkered down inside... the idea is to cook up something nice, watch a movie, play a board game or two and finish off a bottle of champagne or two (more likely one, as I'm not a huge fan of the bubbly).
In Germany, we have the saying "The road to hell is paved with good intentions", so I mostly refrain from doing New Year's resolutions, or I keep recycling old ones...
Resolutions aside, I wish every one of my SG friends a great time as they bid 2018 goodbye, and nothing but happiness and good times in the new year. See y'all then!
