Well this morning after waking up angry about one of the political candidates and after an unprovoked email attack from a crazy immigration lawyer in Des Moines on our immigration law listserv(everyone said I should ignore him, but when it's a personal attack you have to say something). I decided that my New Year's Resolution is to get rid of avoidable negativity in my life. Some is inevitible and some is probably necessary, but there is so much that is just not necessary and I'm going to get that out of my life.
That is one nice thing about public television... You can sit down and actually enjoy a program and not be distracted by annoyingly bad commercials.
Hoppin' John is essentially a Southern tradition, where eating some on New Year's Day ensures good luck through the next year.There are variations on the tradition, of course. Some say that you also have to have greens, because the greens ensure bills while the peas only give you pennies. This strikes me as being terribly greedy.There's another tradition that says eating saurkraut on New Years Day also guarantees good luck. But I serve up saurkraut at other times of the year, baked slowly in the oven with pork, so I'm sticking with the Hoppin' John.
I just sneezed and got a wad of mucous on my palm.
Wanna join me at my neighbor's party? It's in an hour.
I get these from time to time, too, and have actually followed up on a couple of them. The "guarantee" evaporates as soon as they find out you are not in foreclosure proceedings and your house is appraised at more than $10K.
Yeah, but the only piece of propery I own is my funeral plot.
Perhaps you could convince them that this property is so great that once you moved in you thought you'd stay there for eternity!
And then the big question will be what will my New Year's Day viewing be?
