Happy New Year everyone! It is 2006. It is going to be a very good year. I'm getting married. Some other very good friends are getting married. Some other very good friends are venturing off, looking for bluer skies. I made a great CD summarizing the past two years of Mandounette-ness, which I will be sending as my Happy New Year wishes to you all (please drop me an e-mail with your address if you have moved in the past few years...)

AND it is 2006 and I am just joining the 21st century. I am now a Skype user. If you want to find me, my user name is my full name with a dot in between.

And I also wanted to annonce this year's theme. As the Year of the Cock passes onto the fortuitous Year of the Dog on the Chinese calendar, so the Year of Ass and Champagne passes onto the Year of Rock'n'Roll and Wine. It came to me in a vision. Drink up and rock on.