Happy new year everyone.

I was hardly awake to see the new year in, but I did not mind. We determined early that this would be a night spent at home. Historically, New Year's Eve has been the holiday most likely to turn disastrous around me for one reason or other, so this is a plan I like.

A much later determination was to make it a night of no dinner and perpetual appetizers. We made a cheese and dried meat platter, fantastic shrimp scampi, tomato bruschetta, chicken quesadillas, and a seven layer taco dip we barely even started, in addition to our bacon brownies and emergency lemon ices.
As we started eating at 4:30 (and I did not sleep the night before with any success) it was not surprising that I was heading for food coma by 7:30.

It was a good night.

2012 was a pretty cool year for us. If every year could have this much good in it with the (well, now in perspective) relatively minor distress and inconveniences. There is always pain, there is always illness and some loss, but it was more than balanced with good news and progress.
We end 2012 knowing we got a little too fat (man, we've been getting so much good food) and knowing we are due to get more busy (and now we are closer to all the things were are voluntarily busy with).
All and all, good.


I wish you all the best of wishes for a prosperous, love-filled, positively exciting new year.


Love to you...