New Year's Eve and the sunrise

For New Year's Eve:



My mother re-decorated the tree for the new year.



We ate Chinese food.



I played with the cat and got some horrifying action shots.



Yeah, you get that thing, Mistoffelees!

My oldest brother suggested I try to take a neat photo of the fire. After about 500 tries and him messing with the controls (I really should read the manual) I managed to snap this:



Much thanks to my Gorillapod for holding the camera still and all that.

In other news, it's 2009.

What? Huh? It didn't even occur to me on New Year's Eve. I was too busy thinking about celebrating New Year's Eve that I didn't even think "oh, right, we're counting down to 2009, not just because counting down is fun".



The second sunrise of 2009.



I could've gone up to the roof deck to get a better angle but it's probably ten degrees out so I'm thinking maybe not.