Happy New Year!!
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 22:05 last edited by
We're going to grill up some nice Omaha steaks, have a little wine and in bed no later than 9. We got in on the redeye at 5:45 am. We don't go out on Amateur Night.
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 22:06 last edited by
Meeting another couple in the suburbs for an early dinner, then back home for some bubbles and tv... Normal bedtimes here!
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 22:30 last edited by
Just popped a prosecco. Looks like bedtime will be 8.
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wrote on 31 Dec 2024, 23:54 last edited by AdagioM 1 Jan 2025, 00:02
Iâm sipping my afternoon prosecco while Iâm puttering around in the kitchen. Just made Smitten Kitchenâs olive oil brownies , havenât tasted them yet.
Edit: the brownies are fantastic. More deeply chocolatey than the usual Smitten Kitchen Favorite Brownies (butter based). Still warm, couldnât wait to sample!
Also making some crispy baked tofu to go with tonightâs roasted vegetables (cauliflower/brussels sprouts/sweet potato) with a vinaigrette dressing. How virtuous! A far cry from Mikâs steaks. (Mr. AM is a weekday vegetarian; we had our prime rib cheater last week for Christmas.)
May pop some actual champagne tonight, or Mumm Napa. We shall see. Mr. AM doesnât love bubbly the way I do.
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 00:11 last edited by
Happy New Year!
I'm not usually retired before 1 am, so I'll be up to see the New Year in. It's been a lovely day, really. Time with Cielo, sewing, piano. And we're in a mild streak weather-wise, high of 44, low of 34 tonight. Very lovely.
Here is a poem for this evening (and probably many days to come!)....
The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell BerryWhen despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my childrenâs lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. -
Happy New Year!
I'm not usually retired before 1 am, so I'll be up to see the New Year in. It's been a lovely day, really. Time with Cielo, sewing, piano. And we're in a mild streak weather-wise, high of 44, low of 34 tonight. Very lovely.
Here is a poem for this evening (and probably many days to come!)....
The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell BerryWhen despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my childrenâs lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. -
wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 01:13 last edited by
Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
And two dogs.
Chaos!
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Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
And two dogs.
Chaos!
wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 02:11 last edited by@Steve-Miller said in Happy New Year!!:
Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
Already?! Aren't you "new" in that neighborhood?!
This is amazing!
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 02:13 last edited by
Happy New Year to all!
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 02:50 last edited by
9:50 and weâre still up. Unreal.
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 03:08 last edited by
No plans. Maybe some scotch just before we turn in. Will we make it to the ball drop? Who knows!
(Lived in NY City for 40 years but have never done the NYE Times Square thing. Actually, locals try to avoid Times Square all year long.)
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 03:27 last edited by CHAS 1 Jan 2025, 03:31
Saw Queer starring Daniel Craig this afternoon. Expected several sex explicit
scenes after reading the reviews.
Nope. I was surprising seeing a popular movie star doing those non-explicit scenes.
Drugs, including alcohol were constant, not sex. Burroughs wrote Junkie, not a sex book.
The movie was well done, not surprised the reviews were positive. Daniel Craig is due the recognition he is getting for his acting. tv
We stopped at a Flower Child for a light dinner and we are home watching the celebrations on TV. May stay until 10; there are clothes in the drier. -
wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 03:36 last edited by
Chas, I really want to see Queer. I admire Burroughsâ work and I respect Craig for seeking out the part. Great review on NPR.
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@Steve-Miller said in Happy New Year!!:
Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
Already?! Aren't you "new" in that neighborhood?!
This is amazing!
wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 03:44 last edited byItâs my whole family + Kimâs in-laws and family + Gregâs MIL and one of the kidâs friends from school.
We played âPunchbowlâ, now watching NY Rocking Eve upstairs and football downstairs.
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 06:09 last edited by
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 19:11 last edited by
And to you!
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 21:08 last edited by
Happy New Year
My younger daughter just said with a tinge of sadness
"Ah well, another year over" -
No plans. Maybe some scotch just before we turn in. Will we make it to the ball drop? Who knows!
(Lived in NY City for 40 years but have never done the NYE Times Square thing. Actually, locals try to avoid Times Square all year long.)
wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 21:20 last edited by@RealPlayer We did the ball drop one year; we were at a theater seeing Smokey Robinson. They sent us outside for the ball drop, then we all came back for the end of the show! Back in the 80âs. We lived in Queens at the time.
