the ocean

It's 2018! Our New Year's was a super classy affair, complete with a sleeping baby and a surprise delivery of Taco Bell. And we stayed out until nearly 1 AM, at which point we were greeted by Aubrey machine gun barking at us and pretty much waking up the entire neighborhood. So the tone was pretty much perfectly set for the year.

Since then, we've kept it pretty casual. Obviously, there has been a lot of Netflix involved. We finished Season 2 of Stranger Things, which had no real reason for being, and knocked out a few more episodes of Black Mirror, just in case the current political environment had left us some sort of hope about the future. We've also been hitting the Hallmark movies pretty hard, as they transition from Countdown to Christmas to Winterfest. Lots of career women learning the value of a simple life as they fall for small town hunks. 

Oh, and we saw Hamilton, finally. This is going to be a controversial opinion, but it was good. I actually thought the guy who played Hamilton might even be better than Lin-Manuel Miranda, who sometimes comes off a little bit punchable to me. Some of the tempos seemed a little brisk to me, but on the other hand they did bring it in under three hours, which I can't be opposed to. Also, somehow we were seated directly behind a group of ladies who appeared to think they were trying out to be Real Housewives, sippy cups of wine and all. So I very much appreciated that the theater was very strict on getting those house lights down right on time.

Anyway, we made it into 2018, and that's something. No promises as to 2019.