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Entry tags:	daily, family, holidays

Happy (Early) New Years ^_^
Well I'm posting this now as I probably won't be able to once midnight hits here in the west coast. I didn't get a chance to do any of the end of the year meme's but that's cool. It's been an interesting year, some ups and some downs and at least I was employed for most of it. I just pray that this coming year will be better than the past few, not just for me for for everyone else too. ^_^

Resolutions? Er, focus on school to transfer, maybe exercise...Write a whole lot more.

So I'm curious on what everyone's traditions are for New Year's. My family has two very distinct ones. That I know of, only one of them is a well known Spanish/Latin tradition.

The first is done within minutes of it hitting midnight. You eat twelve grapes and with each grape you give a resolution or wish for the new year. I believe by doing it it'll help fortify you to stay true to those wishes/resolutions.

The other, I'm not too sure how long we've been doing it, but it's quite fun. At midnight, everyone gets a tall clear glass of water and breaks an egg into it. The morning after you look at how the egg whites er... Well they tend to make patterns in the water. Whatever shapes or images first come into mind in your glass, is a prediction of the coming year. Like last year, my mom saw a plane/bird like shape and surmised she'd do a lot of traveling. Just so happened that she was successful in her sidebusiness and was able to qualify for a lot of the trips outside the state. Weird, huh. XD

Thanks again flist, for hanging around with me this past year. Let's see if we can make it through another! ^_^