Happy New Year!

Just dropping by today to wish you all well for 2008.

I'm taking a break from the CNN candidate marathon from Iowa. Not a single talking head all day and I got to hear from all of the candidates themselves. THIS is what television should be bringing us rather than the pundits with their restless mouth syndrome.

My mate and I were home to watch the ball drop, having been to 5 parties in four days. We were supposed to go to a huge dance here in Rehoboth with 300 women. It's always fabulous fun but last night, for the first time in 25 New Years' Eves we decided just to stay home by ourselves, Schnauzers in laps, to ring in 2008.

We'd attended a brunch on Sunday, where Mimosas were served at noon and the hosts didn't bring out the food until 3:15 pm. Amid the constant flow of champagne and orange juice, we spent the day pretty looped - enough to get me to agree to go see Johnny Depp in Sweeny Todd after the brunch/dinner.

As an Angela Lansbury worshipper and a Sondheim fan ( here comes the lesbian show queen in me), the film was a whole 'nuther animal - not at all the haunting but hilarious tale of the murderous barber of Fleet Street that we saw on stage. But the film was great in its own way. I missed Angela's humor and Helena couldn't sing, but she and Depp were brilliant. The entire film took your breath away, and sometimes your lunch. The blood and gore set a new record - and thankfully it was pretty obvious when to close your eyes.

When it's time for the Oscars, the sound editors should be hailed because the gurgles and splurts of blood and guts made eyesight immaterial.

Amazingly, I did not have a hangover from the bottle and a half of Moet et Chandon I consumed prior to the movie. Sadly though, I had a world class case of gastric reflux from the orange juice. It's a bitch getting old.

So we were home celebrating by ourselves last night and I am glad we are finally in the year that we will see the Bush team vacate the White House. We've got a lot of work to do....I'm up for it. Are you?

Happy New Year from fabulous Rehoboth Beach.