Well, and a Happy New Year to you too!
It occurred to me, after looking at the stats for this week, that people apparently have a lot to do during this week. Not complaining of course, but I figured today people are particularly busy. Either you are preparing to host a party, or you are primping to go to one. Or both.
I have primped already. Clean long underwear! I’ve done a bit of cooking for tomorrow. We are having “finger” food tomorrow. A nice dip called spinach, artichoke, chipolte dip is blending in the fridge even as we speak.
I made some blue cheese dressing to alternate with barbecue sauce for some chicken tenders I’ll bread and pop into the oven tomorrow to bake.
The most time consuming is a pizza. I’m making it early and then cutting it into nice small pieces. The chicken and pizza will be arrayed over an aluminum casserole on the wood stove to keep just warm. The dip and its accompanying veggies and crackers on a tray by the windows to stay cool.
The point is to graze. During the day. While watching parades and football and otherwise lazing.
We lost somewhere close to ten inches of snow during yesterday’s thaw. We were scheduled to get up to 48 today with rain, but so far nary a drop and the temp can’t seem to get past 29. That’s disappointing, but the Contrarian has headed out, and apparently has cleared the top of the hill. If we can get through there, usually we can make the rest.
He’s off to get eggs and cat food.
We are heading for a freeze down tonight. I might make it out to Church on Sunday if we don’t get freezing rain. Hopefully we will get out to grocery shop on Monday. All in all, I’m fairly pleased with things.
MauiGirl wrote a post about SAD and how she had been on Realtor.com looking at houses in San Francisco. I tried the site and found a pleasing array of homes in our price range in Las Cruces, NM. It’s a good thing to do when the gloomy days are making you feel decidedly unhappy with your present location. The site is slow as crap for me, but I do get to see some of the interiors and, like I said, I’m pretty happy with what we can get.
I hope you have a great evening tonight. We are gonna watch a bunch of Marx Brothers movies, I think. We watch the hoopla from bed usually. LOL. We are soooo boring!
Anyway, I’ll be back on Monday. Have a good one as I said, and we’ll get back to reality then. Here’s hoping 2011 is a bit better than 2010 turned out to be.
From the picture, it looks like Woody Woodpecker started partying a little early.
Have a wonderful New Year!
I’ll be hanging out at my sister’s and most likely, I’ll be in bed by 9:30. Just the way I like it!
Happy New Year Sherry, from one of your new 2010 friends.
We’ll do the usual tonight, a late-ish crab dinner for two at home with a nice French champagne (almost had sister-in-law and her daughters over but our invite was too last-minute).
And then I get to color-mark up the 2011 calendar with birthdays and anniversaries while we await the midnight hour. Kind of a controlled boredom situation – but we’re both sticklers for waiting until the new year rings in. 2010? Not a good year, all told, I think.
Hope it was a great evening and new beginning of the year for you and yours John
Happy New Year! We’re quietly watching tv at home. There’s 30 minutes till midnight now, and I’ve brushed my teeth and am ready to go to bed!
Hope it was a quiet and lovely evening and day Jan. Blessings!
Sherry said: “…and we’ll get back to reality then.”
Reality??
Wow… does this mean you have come to your senses; abandoned ancient myth and fable; rejected supernaturalism, dead man-gods, the efficacy of prayer, miracles, afterlife; and accepted reason, the scientific method, and objective evidence for the natural world exclusively?
‘Bout time. It is after all the 21st century. Kudos.
DH, this comment has nothing to do with our rather enjoyable wishing each other of a nice new Years. You can respond to the issues in question at your own blog as you wish. I will respond should I be interested. No further comments will be accepted on this subject which are inappropriate to this blog post. I have deleted our fractious discussion since it has nothing to do with this post. If you wish to comment further, sent it to my email.
Our celebratory dinner consisted of pizzas this year, with a fine vintage 12-pack of Coke Zero to wash them down. The less family we see at the holidays, the less I feel like cooking; anyway, pizzas have both vegetables and dairy, so they’re good for you. I think I conked out around 9:45, as per usual, but my husband and stepson stayed up ’til about 2 a.m. playing video games. Nothin’ says New Year like smashin’ up some zombies, I guess. (P.S. Thanks for the tip on keeping foodstuffs warm on the wood stove. I’d have never thought of that!)
See you next year, Sherry! Maybe 11 will be everyone’s lucky number.
Hey, family ritual is family ritual. I embrace them all as equally valid! Have a great new year Blisterina
I think you’d like Cruces.
BE, I just found a blogger who lived there 12 years and he said it was great. He still lives in NM and has agreed to answer all our questions! We are optimistic at this point!
Happy New Year to you and yours, Sherry, and we’ll be joining you in food shopping today, right after I get an unseemly number of bottles out for the trash man when he makes it up the mountain this morning.
I was here a couple days ago and read most of the comments by Mr. Hump, but didn’t get a chance to write a comment before you decided to remove them, a decision I heartily agree with. (We don’t allow insulting humps to post in the first place over at USojo, but we’re not as sweet as you are ;>)
Still, I was struck by the ugly way this self-proclaimed hump advocates for his “position,” and how utterly used he is in the process. And “smarmy” was a great choice of descriptors for his hypocrisy.
I understand why they might come here anyway, since you always provide provocative commentary on the spiritual issues of our times; but if they can’t at least be civil and respectful, to the trash heap of history with’em, which, ironically, is where many of them are headed in the end, anyway. :-\
Happy New Year to you and yours.
As to the Hump, I realized that he was not interested in dialoguing but just in scoring points, even on such minor points as present or past tense. And definitional crap. Given that the post attached had zero to do with his ugly ad hominem’s I decided to delete the entire mess. I had merely stopped by his blog which had the provacative post title about Can you claim that Jesus had one good idea? I realized that he simply cherry picked a sentence to negate any good thing—like Jesus said turn the other cheek, but he said, Mother will hate father, etc. Out of context and with no understanding whatesoever about biblical exegesis. So I decided to just kill the entire conversation but for his intiial entry. Sigh…not the way I wanted to end an unpleasant year.