Jan 1st, three hours in the past
Ok, riddle me this, Vargas...

You live in one of the coolest cities in the world (top five at least, still have to give props to San Diego and Los Angeles and Oslo and there's probably another cool one out there I'm not thinking of). Not just that, but the city you live in is super-famous for New Year's Eve.

So why did you spend your NYE in California, aka, three hours back in time?

Because you're an idiot, that's why.

So, ok, it wasn't that bad. It was fun. I got spoiled for Christmas by Mami and Papi (gift cards!) and the stuff from Isabel didn't suck too bad. And the party at Brendan's was fun.

Brendan. We live on opposite sides of the country, we haven't so much as kissed since freshman year of college, and I'm still obsessing over him. Why?

I think that comes back to the idiot thing.

So anyways. It was a fun party. He's got this girlfriend now who was a little wary of me, but I thought she was kind of cool. His two roommates are the total LA guys, one's a wannabe actor, one's a wannabe producer. Then there's my Brendan. The wannabe who-the-hell-knows. He says that he loves working over at studio catering. He told me about weird food tastes of some of the stars. We exchanged Christmas presents, he got me two dvds (The Hangover and 500 Days Of Summer, the boy knows me like I don't know what) and a really cute knit hat. I got him a couple bootleg cds I found in Chinatown, and a cool t-shirt. He also gave me the promise that he'll come out to NYC sometime soon. Once it gets warmer. Wuss. He's supposed to be a Jersey boy, he's gone all California on me.

So, all in all, I guess it was fun.

But next year, I'm doing NYE in NYC.

I bet everyone else there had fun. Seth probably went to a cool party. Ok, scratch that. Seth probably stayed at the apartment and listened to Jason and Avery sucking face while he watched Ryan Seacrest on tv. But he should have gone to a party.

Next year, I'll take him to a party.

A NY-rockin'-E party. In NYC.