Well…Christmas is over, New Years is done, the houseguests have left, and I’m almost finished tidying the whole mess away.
I haven’t been feeling well – some kind of mild stomach virus that lasts over a week – so I haven’t had much energy to do anything very interesting.
However, I did put on my party pants and go out on New Years Eve – to a senior citizens’ home. I took photos of the residents celebrating New Years. They really know how to ring in the new year too – they move all the clocks ahead, so they’re doing the big countdown at 8:15 instead of midnight. That way they can party and celebrate and still be in bed by 9:00. I thought it was a brilliant idea, especially since I was feeling about 85 years old myself that night. Besides, some of these people have rung in the new year a hundred times already, so they must know what they’re doing by now.
I’m making the residents a video of the photos I took, using software called Memories on TV. It lets me burn my photos to a CD or DVD (a slide show with panning, zooming and cool effects, and set to music – in this case, Auld Lang Syne), which can be watched on TV. I’ve made a few now, and people seem to really like them.
Whoa! I love your template.
What an awesome way to spend New Years.I love that they turn the clocks ahead and are in bed by 9:00. I really enjoyed this post. It was humorous and well written.
Thanks Paula – I think that clock-ahead thing might catch on, what with the aging of the population and all!
Great post Zoom! I love the story, the pictures and the idea of the video. I’m going to check out the Memories on TV software, creating something with it sounds like fun
Thanks Dakota. This project actually inspired me to buy and install a dvd writer last night, to replace my cd writer, since the quality of Memories on TV dvds is higher. Now I just need to figure out how to restore sound to my computer…I seem to have disconnected it somehow while installing the burner.