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Ice Ice Baby!
Since Derek had worked the vast majority of the Christmas holiday, his crew insisted that he take off for New Year’s Eve. I felt about three years pregnant, so we opted not to go out. The guys claimed that they preferred to stay in anyway because ‘all of the drunk and crazy people are out on the roads.’ The weather looked like it wasn’t going to be conducive to partying anyway, so I was relieved to stay home.
Due to it being a special occasion, we made a dinner out of cheesy and delicious appetizers and selected movies to watch on Netflix, rather than our usual Ellen reruns. We planned to stop the movies at 11:45 p.m., so we could watch the ball drop at midnight, but knowing the party animals that we were, we would most likely doze off on the couch before it actually ha
