U I vethed na I onnad.

Because of the flight at 8 this morning (Bangkok, Thailand to Siem Reap, Cambodia), Mom and I have been awake since 5 this morning. Mom has since semi-crashed, but I am determined to stay awake this last 1/2 hour to see out 2010.

Today was a great send-off to the year. Once we arrived at the hotel we enjoyed the luxury of doing nothing a bit. We set off to find lunch and found it in a restaurant about 5 minutes away. Then we came back and I treated myself to the spa here. Cambodian prices are ridiculous. A peppermint body scrub, massage, and facial (2 hours and 30 minutes) were included in a $78 package. Add the hotel 30% discount and it was basically free. A very good time indeed.

The hotel provides a New Year's banquet for $65 a person - from 7 to 8 there is socializing in the front of the hotel with drinks and Thai boxing. Dinner is from 8 to whenever you're full and all the food is included in the $65, though drinks are separate. While you eat there is Thai dancing and singing alternately. Right now they're back to singing, but they're singing modern now (Livin' La Vida Loca as I type, and earlier they were singing the Macarena) instead of the ABBA and Madonna of the 80s they were singing before.

2010 was, all told, a very good year. But then, no year could be worse than 2009. Here's hoping that 2011 will be similarly good.

A belated happy new year to all! ♥

I really should have posted sooner, rather than waiting until two hours before my Joytalk interview, but I only just got my camera back from sw_inku, who walked away with it after our dance, on Saturday, and I need the distraction.

The New Year was spent comfortably warm and dressed to the nines at the Montauk Club, at my second Dances of Vice event and sw_inku's first (technically). Delicious finger foods and good wine was had, wall-flowering was done (as per usual) and there were some absolutely lovely performances.

And I have pictures! See them here.

And what's this? January 8 ... is in three days D8
I'M OLD!!! DDD8

I find myself less pressed for time, so perhaps I'll be able to get a decent update in. Dana and I clearly picked the wrong weekend to be tourists in Glasgow - with Hagmanay (their New Year's celebration) and rain, there was little that we wanted to do. We did get out to see the closer parts of the city and we did make the walk to Necropolis, but there wasn't much else to see that wasn't out of doors. Not to mention that everything was closed today, it being New Year's day and all. Tomorrow we think we'll take an early train into Edinburgh to have brunch there, and then we'll continue down to York. Hopefully a few more tourist-y things will happen there. We're also going to try and take a train into France for a day - it's about a two hour ride from London.

So, happy new year, my loves. I have no resolutions that won't get broken, so I didn't bother with them. Until then I'm happy to be prowling among delicious Scottish accents. It helped that I got free drinks for most of the night. I am also happy to report that I'm not a light-weight as I thought I might be. It took a pint and a fourth of Guiness, a vodka-and-Red Bull, a bacardi breezer, a rum and coke, and Smirnoff Ice to get me tipsy. And no hangover at all to speak of.

A month, a week and four days, is it? I can't wait for February 13th.