So, earlier in the day I was bored and it seemed as if nothing was transpiring for plans for tonight. After constant debating with myself, I chose to drive back to Edwardsville/Glen Carbon for New Year’s Eve. I knew that there would be a dry party at Frank’s house in Granite City, which sounded like more of my cup of tea anyways, since I don’t drink and I wanted to be around people that had some moral fibers in their body. So I get there with Mees and his friend Jennifer around 7:45ish and then shortly after we get there we’re told that we’ll be taking part in a Scavenger Hunt…so I got paired up in a group with my good buddy Will, his friend Michael and Michael’s date Emily. So after an hour of driving around Granite City completing tasks that included us singing “American Pie” at a random bar on the edge of town, dipping my bare feet in Wilson park’s lake and a chinese fire drill, we finally made our way back to Frank’s so that they could tally up the score. I had felt pretty confident, until we got back to the house and every other group was talking about how well they did, but when the scores came back we found out that we won by 85 points over the 2nd place team 365 to 280 and the 3rd place team had like 225 or something, but anyways so everyone in our group won a $10 giftcard to Wal Mart. While I was at the party I ate some food and conversed with pretty much everyone there. I’ve been trying to meet some girls that are innocent and have some principles and morals, so going to positive things such as this dry party and the Christian Bible studies have been leading me in the right direction. While I was there though I met this girl named Denae, who upon first glance found quite enchanting, very beautiful…glimmering blonde hair, pearly white teeth, ample freckles placed on her face, she just came off as really sweet, which is the type of girl I’m really attracted to, but I think my friend Will likes her. When talking to Will about her in the car on the way to pick up his friend Michael, he seemed to hint at the fact that he likes her a lot, so that’s a tough situation. Very few girls catch my interest at first glance, but she did. Then later into the party my friend Cody showed up with his friend Brad, shortly after they got there it turned midnight and I drank some sparking red juice which was good. The party was full of very genuine, heartfelt people, that I wish I was surrounded by on a daily basis, unfortunately that’s usually not the case. Cody, Brad, and I left the dry party shortly after midnight, once we got back into Edwardsville we stopped by Cody’s friend’s Shaw’s house and we just chilled there for a bit and everyone there was just drinking and they were all laid back so it was cool, but while we were outside on the balcony, Brad yelled at this dude named Schmookie, cuz he had delivered pizza to him before, so 5 of us head down to Schmookie’s place which came off as shady from the start. After I’m there for like 30 minutes or so I made up some bullshit excuse to head back to Shaw’s place again and get the fuck away from the bros at Schmookie’s. Then after a little bit of nagging I convinced Cody to take me back to Mees’ house so I could get my car, once I got back to Mees’ I went in for a bit to hang out with him and the handful of people still left there. I had met all the people there, except for this random black guy that was a character, I believe his name was Jimmy or Johnny or something random, but anyways he had no front teeth and he was wearing this weird pizza shaped hat, but he was making everyone (including me) bust out laughing, funny ass dude. All in all, I guess the moral of the story is you don’t need alcohol/drugs/cigarettes to have fun. I mean I went to four parties tonight and yet the dry party was hands down the most fun I had all night and it had the only cute, single girl that I met all night at it too. Boring people need substances to alter their state of consciousness to try and make themselves think they’re happy while with the people at the dry party, everyone was genuinely having a good time. I just wish I could meet more cute girls that weren’t sluts, and that didn’t need substances to pass the time. Like I said Danae was pretty, but if Will’s trying to get here, I’ll have to step aside..as weird as that sounds. O well tonight was one of the best New Year’s Eves that I’ve ever had, it’s ranked up there with the few consecutive First Nights in Springfield where they had awesome bands playing and funny comedians, but that’s been 5 years or so back. Well I hope everyone else had a great New Year’s too, may this new decade bring everyone pure happiness. I hope I meet a girl this year that likes me for me, doesn’t use/need substances and is pure, genuine and most of all sweet/honest/trustworthy. I just want a pure adorable woman that I can fall in love with. Welp I hope everyone else has their New Year’s resolutions come true, and I hope mine of finding a good/sweet girl comes true too.