Happy New Year to You All!

I've had a cold since the day after Christmas, but I hope you all are having a better time of it than I am.  I'm sorry to report that we had the most boring New Year's Eve ever.  After WeeBee and Lowly went to bed, my husband and I started channel surfing.  After 5 minutes of a special on the Children's Miracle Network that left me paranoid about what mysterious diseases my children could suddenly come down with, we switched to the coverage of the Times Square New Years Eve spectacle.  Around 10:30 I realized I had been staring at some rapper bouncing around on tv for the last five minutes and I had absolutely no idea what I had just watched.  At that point, I grabbed a box of tissues and headed to bed.

Apparently New Jersey isn't enforcing their anti-firework laws this year, because I awoke at midnight to the sound of everyone in the immediate area setting them off...for the next 20 minutes.  (I was too tired to be annoyed, just vaguely curious as to where all the fireworks came from.)  And then at around 5 pm that evening, my neighbors must have found a box they drunkenly misplaced the night before, because they started setting them off again.  I wish I hadn't been so sick, because it was a really clear night out and I probably would have gotten a pretty good view of most of the fireworks, but what can you do?

Aside from all of us being sick at the same time, the New Year hasn't been too bad.  One of my New Year's Resolutions was to do a better job of using up everything in my fridge.  I'm not horrible about wasting food, but I have a tendency to get towards the end of a container of something and then forget about it.  I know it's only the 4th, but I've managed to use up 3 eggs, 2 tomatoes, a bowl of roasted potatoes, and a ham bone.  I think I'm going to have to buy ham more often, because the ham bone turned my slow cooker split pea soup from pretty good to absolutely amazing.  (And that was with a cold that is seriously impairing my sense of taste/smell.)

Unfortunately, my head is very fuzzy right now, so I'm going to stop before I type something completely incoherent.  Sorry if this post sort of went round in circles.