So, this is going to sounds really silly........ but the one thing that I have been looking forward to in the new year, is that we are changing over from UNited Healthcare to Humana for our health insurance provider. Humana has a great program for fitness tracking, and I have already signed up as much as possible, and have been consoling myself that on New Years Day, I can actually sign in to the website and set everything up for fitness tracking. As far as New Year’s Eve , we are going to stay home, avoid traffic, and hope that there is not a lot of shooting going on to celebrate here in our neighborhood.
Went out this morning, and bought some red wine, a small cake & a new year's pretzel. All's quiet around here!
Mark and I have not had a NYE together in at least 18 years. He always had to work. We do not care at this stage to be out in the drunk filled concerte jungle...but if we can stay awake...will do something here. Aside from some concern over finances this coming year- we both are looking forward to no alarm awakenings at 2-3-4-5 am..for his work. A lot less sandwiches for lunch, less washing of clothes, him some new clothes...going to burn the others...yeah I see this being a year to look forward to
My mother used to swear by eating pickled herring on New Year's Eve. Possibly she thought that then nothing worse would happen to her in the upcoming year!
We grew up in a quiet neighborhood, North of Pittsburgh. Our neighbors always went outside at Midnight, to "eat fish at the crossroads". They stood in the middle of the intersection of two small streets, regardless of the weather. Anyone else ever hear of this?
Bought the sauerkraut and pork (sausage) yesterday. In this part of the south it's black eyed peas and collard greens. I can do the peas, but not the greens. So I revert back to NE Ohio tradition. Hope that's good enough. Why can't it be something easy, like pizza and donuts?
I am totally in favor of the pizza and donuts as well, Nancy ! I actually like the greens, and eat a lot of them; but not cooked for hours on end. I chop them and either use greens in my salads, or lightly stir fry them and I like that much better. I like most beans, but not big on the black-eyed peas part. We probably won’t have anything special. I have never heard of eating fish in the crossroads on New Years, @Joe Riley . any idea what nationality the neighbors were that did this ? My mother-in-law used to get a half-dollar (they were mostly silver back then), and she would “cross our palm with silver”, which was supposed to bring us good fortune in the new year. Then, they pretty much stopped making the Kennedy Half-dollar, so she would get quarters and give us all one of those instead.