Happy New Year everyone! Ok, so Christmas and New Year's has come and gone, both in their special way. I certainly didn't spend them in a traditional way, but they also weren't spent angsting over what I couldn't do or who I couldn't see. For Christmas, I actually spent that day and the days before struggling though various blackouts of electricity and, of course, no water. Having no power sucks. Having no power when it's almost freezing out sucks even more. Thankfully on Christmas Eve I was blessed to have a wonderful party to attend which got me out of my apartment from 7pm to 1am. A friend of mine, Esmeralda, had been planning this party since the beginning of the month and it definitely showed. I had helped a little bit with decorating her apartment,
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