It’s New Year’s Eve, and the fireworks are going crazy outside my window while people are partying all over the city. I’m at home alone in bed, shivering and wrapped in a blanket while nibbling at a new year’s feast consisting of dry little crackers – the first thing I’ve been able to eat all day, because I have apparently caught some kind of stomach bug. (I know! Sometimes it’s scary how glamorous and exciting my life is. Try not to get too jealous.).
I hope you guys are having a much more festive evening and that you will have a wonderful new year. I want to thank you for reading along and commenting in the year that has passed. Blog-wise, 2011 was the year that I got quite a lot more readers and commenters (I have an average of about 100 more readers now than I did by the end of 2010), and I find this truly humbling. According to my stats surprisingly large number of you were readers stopping by to read my post about 1990s sitcom Blossom, but a lot of you also hung around and left me inspiring and insightful comments, especially on my posts from 2007 and 2010 about the tableau vivant in literature and about the character of Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto. Some of you I still owe an answer to your comments. I apologise for this – I will get to it ASAP, and I hope you know that your comments are deeply appreciated. You guys make it worth the effort to sit down in front of the keyboard after a long day of hard work.
As a token of my gratitude and a New Year’s present, I thought of sharing with you the insanely adorable video from Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt – “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve“, but I’m sure you’ve already seen that on a gazillion other blogs, no? Plus, the lyrics
“Who’s gonna be the one to hold you tight/when it’s exactly 12 o’clock at night?”
are making me a little verklempt in my bedridden, lonely state. So instead I’d like to end the year 2011 with the melancholy Farewell Waltz from Waterloo Bridge - “For Auld Lang Syne”. With the risk of tooting my own horn, I have to say that my post about this 1940 movie was a favourite of mine on the blog this year, and seeing the movie was one of my best film experiences of 2011, so it seems appropriate.
That was truly lovely! Thank so much, and hope very much that you are feeling better soon. Happy New Year! x
God bedring Marie!
Glad you liked it, Louise! Yes, it really is a lovely scene. And thank you both, Louise and Solveig, for your kind wishes. I think I’m a little better today. A happy new year to you.
/marie