Day Twenty Three

Once again, I failed to awaken at the usual time, instead waking up closer to noon.  The early hours of the afternoon were spent in quiet seclusion, as the new year began to settle in. Early into the evening I was visited by my lovely companion for several hours, sharing a meal and enjoying each other's company.

Going to and from dinner, I noticed a dark-robed man wearing a strange sort of mask which looked like a beak of a peculiar sort.  He was near a pet store, though, so perhaps he was a queer mascot of some sort.