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"2014 is finally here, and I do hope your New Year&amp;#039;s Eve was much more exciting than mine. The kids were at a party with their father for the evening, so I was home alone and clicking away on my laptop when I noticed it was midnight. The cat had just walked across my keyboard, so I picked him up, kissed the top of his head and said &amp;quot;Happy New Year, Niko. We are officially pathetic.&amp;quot; Then I reached for my snack and went back to writing. So there you have it, folks. Kissed a cat. Ate a pop-tart. Not exactly a jet-setting life. And I&amp;#039;m making a vow here and now and recording it on the internet for all posterity.  Next year, I will be kissing a real, live human being at midnight. As God as my witness, I will never go kiss-hungry again! There&amp;#039;s actually a word for that, you know. Basorexia. It&amp;#039;s a noun, and it means &amp;quot;the overwhelming desire to kiss,&amp;quot; and it&amp;#039;s found primarily in lonely word-nerds like me who spend their time researching archaic terms to describe their social yearnings. I&amp;#039;ve decided that based on my ringing in of the New Year, 2014 has nowhere to go but up. I&amp;#039;ll let MC Hammer sing me out, &amp;#039;cause I&amp;#039;ve got some new year to conquer. I&amp;#039;m thinking this would be a good theme song for the year. What&amp;#039;s yours?      [Follow Ellie on Twitter and Facebook] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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