1/1/11

Okay, now really, how fun is that number to look at! Maybe it should look like 01-01-11 but my computer says it is 1/1/11 so I'm going with that.

I started the new year out with a clean-ish house. Since going to work, the schedule of house cleaning really suffered, so it's been hit and miss. Add to the equation Stick Dog and we figure in time, all this will work out.

I deviated from the usual New Year's dinner of ham and black eyed peas to make a pork roast with kraut. I suppose the "good luck" meal is always regional. I know that most regions will include pork of some sort and cabbage. I think the black eyed peas are southern. Not to be confused with a popular singing group, which I don't think is southern.

I took Stick Dog to the dog park but I found it was closed! Closed! Who closes dog park? We did get a lot of rain and it does tend to get muddy, but really...closed? There were several dogs inside, so I knew that some were jumping the fence, but I can't haul this 45 lbs of energy over the fence, so we went to the baseball diamonds and found an empty one and played Frisbee until Dog's tongue was dragging the ground. He had fun and actually didn't run off! He's getting better, or maybe I'm just getting wiser. Whichever way it goes, it's working.

Husband's week off is drawing to an end. He made me a wonderful breakfast this week before I went to work! It was a bit strange to have the Man make my meal and send me off to work, but I was digging it. Hate to see him go back to work, but we have to get back to usual. School will start at the end of the month. Then we begin to mark the time for summer. Man, if it's not one thing, it's another thing making time march on. The days seem to pass so much quicker than when I was young. I remember when Christmas was a life time away each year, and now I realize that the shopping for the next Christmas begins at the after Christmas sales.

So New Year...bring it on!