The day before, he got up, came and got me and we drove out to River Road in Puyallup. The first car, a CrossTrek at a small dealership...was the first one we test drove was a really pretty car but it had been in three accidents. The dealer only knew about the one accident that rendered it totaled. The insurance company paid to have it fixed. We drove it down to Trish's work and had it looked at. The mechanic said it wasn't worth it...we thought so, but we had to make sure. Then we test drove the second car, a Subaru Impreza. That one was much better and worth his money. He was sold on it but we had to come back on New Year's Eve to go through the paperwork, which will take some time.
I got up after staying up late the night before. I waited until Ben got to my house. Today he got here earlier so we had more time for paperwork and driving time. Unfortunately we had to kinda be in a hurry because he had to work on his day off at the casino. They needed all hands on deck for the New Year's Eve party the place was putting on. He said that he might get off around 11. Here is hoping. We got to the shop and immediately started doing paperwork. I got popcorn and went upstairs to talk to Trish for a while.
Downstairs, there was a lot of waiting around and paperwork. About two hours into it, he had all the papers signed and the financial stuff taken car of. The next step was to be handed the keys and walk out the door for some pictures.
Basically, we headed home immediately after we drove it off the lot. I knew he was stressing about getting to work on time. He dropped me off and I got all of my stuff ready to go over to Celeste's house for our party. I immediately got all of my stuff I had packed inside my car and drove to Yelm to pick up pizza's for dinner. Then I got a text message from Ben that kind of hurt my feelings but I understood. He apologized about it later and he felt bad about sending it but he was stressed at the time. I got the pizza and headed out towards Celeste's house.
To my understanding, Nicole, Kathy, Jim, David and Celeste were there already and Megan, Matt and Mason will be arriving later on. Ben was going to try and make it after he was off work at 11. Lindsay and Justin were sick and Lance was in Chelan for the holiday.
When I got there I realized I did not get any gluten free pizza and I felt bad because now Nicole doesn't have any dinner to eat. I was glad Kathy had some gluten free buns to make a pizza on. We get the pizza's in and while we waited for them we played Kings Crown. I had a couple of good rounds and a couple of not-so-great ones. It was fun watching David and Kathy try to play. Jim got the hang of it.
We ate pizza, chips and dip and some other appetizers we had at hand. Then we started a round of Cards of Humanity. We even got to play with some cards I haven't seen before and they were just as inappropriate as the cards we've been using. As it reached 10ish, we had to start thinking about what worldly New Year's traditions we were going to do. We made some Marzipan pigs, got our 12 grapes together, got the champagne out and wrote our wish down to burn, we all talked about what color underwear we were wearing and what each color meant for the new year. We had black-eyed pea dip, we were going to step on the right foot and drink our wish.
About 11:30 we had everything laid out and ready to eat, drink or do at midnight. I set aside some for Ben if he made it on time. I saw some headlights coming down the driveway at 11:55. He made it to Celeste's house with five minutes to spare. I was very surprised he got there in time from Rochester. I knew he sped here. I was setting up the GoPro when he came through the door.
We counted down the last few seconds of 2014 and indulged with our traditions from around the world. When we were done we all had our kisses at midnight.
We all loitered for about another hour and decided to all go home. Ben came over to my house and took a 2 hour safety nap before I had to kick him out. It was an interesting NYE and I've never spent one like that before. Here's to many more!
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