Well, I skipped my first day since starting this blog. I got too busy with family and friends and other writing projects and I just ... forgot or lost track of time, I suppose.
My husband and I took our son to one of our favorite places in San Diego, the "World Famous" San Diego Zoo. We saw gazelles, tortoises, snakes, bugs, birds, monkeys, hippos and polar bears, the last of which were playing with balls and wrestling under water. We went early enough that several animals were actually out in public view, though many of them were standing at the back of their enclosures waiting to be fed.
Later on yesterday, we humans were the ones bellied up to the trough. We ate pizza, chips and salsa, brownies, peppermint bark, veggies and dip and drank champagne (for me) and beer (for my husband). Our New Years Eve binge rolled over to New Year's Day and a birthday party for my stepfather with pork roast, ham, soup and black-eyed peas. Cooked for hours, usually in a crockpot with a hamhock or bacon, black-eyed peas are a Southern tradition for good luck or prosperity, or both, in the New Year. My friend's German mother makes real sauerkraut and serves it with mashed potatoes and pork chops and/or sausage for money in the new year.
I'll be content with whatever I can get -- love, happiness, peace, health or wealth -- in 2010. A little extra sleep would be nice too.
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