the year of the whore (part i)

after some destroyed barware, a destroyed porch, and half a dozen detonated irish car bombs 2k9 is upon us…

…and it’s already been…um…interesting.

let’s back up to the last few hours of 2k8 – i got outta work early, and really had NO plans for new years. being single can do that to ya, and i realized shortly there after that every new year since the “big one” (i.e. 1999 – 2K) had been kinda planned for me – 2K-2K1, 2K1-2K2, 2K2-2K3, and 2K3-2K4 were all taken up by working at star doing ticket box offices for new years shows. 2K4-2K5, 2K5-2K6, and 2K6-2K7 were all when i was dating alex and ranged from low key to totally lame, and then 2K7-2K8 (six months or so after alex and i had split) we went out for new years and had a great time – and i think we owed ourselves that.

so this year, no plans. on deck was a house party with a la tina buddy (and her neighbors, husband, etc) or running down to s.a. for another latina house party…both a good hour and some change from my house, which is roughly six d.w.i.’s we figured – so when shane suggested san marcos bar hopping, and using his truck, the proximity factor kicked in and we had a plan…

…or so we thought.

the SA thing had actually been scrapped ’cause i got a call one of the plans was cancelled and just got no call on the other one. the la tina plans went when i got out of work early – if they’d held us all day, i’d only have a couple hours to kill and i’d be in the neighborhood. but i got out at one or so, so i just headed home. this turned out to be a good coincidence.

i started to get hungry and shane had already bailed the idea of us doing dinner since his family was doing fajitas – so i went to get mr. taco only to be denied ’cause they were closed (early for new years) so i headed to taco bell (sue me, i had a craving), grabbed grub, and headed home…but as i pulled into the driveway, the headlights simultaneously cut out. the rest of the car, including the radio, ran fine…just no headlights. dash lights? tail lights? brake lights? all fine…although when i went to turn off the car i noticed the interior lights started to cut off and on all on their own.

the next day the battery was toast and the car wouldn’t start. got more interesting from there. but that’s skipping the whole new year’s eve thing, ain’t it?