New Year's Eve/New Year's Day
With all the computer excitement, I neglected to mention the actual excitement surrounding the new year.
Well, okay, it's me and my parents. What "actual" sort of excitement could there be? Mom and I both had to work NYE, but dad had been off; he ordered us Chinese for dinner. Eggrolls, sesame chicken, beef fried rice, and some sort of spicy beef that cleared our sinuses. Yum. We gobbled most of it up that night, and by the time lunch was over the next day, only one container of sticky white rice was left. My fortune made me laugh: "You will step on the soil of many countries." I don't even have a passport. I think you misspelled "counties," fortune cookie person. Either that, or I'll be heading to a museum with some sort of dirt exhibit. My parents, as has happened before, got the same fortune as the other. It wasn't even anything good.
After dinner, we played The Logo Game, something mom picked up at the Kankakee Walmart. Dad even played, probably because I'd warned him he'd have to. :) It actually was pretty interesting and kind of fun, though mom kept getting cards involving presidents and, like, the Bible. I kept getting ones involving Jack in the Box, a company that's not in the area, or at least it hasn't been since I've been aware. Mom said she used to get tacos there. Basically, each card deals with a particular company or related idea (the presidents card dealt with brands which share a name with presidents, like Hoover and Lincoln), and there are four questions per card. You get a question correct, you get to move to a space on the board which corresponds to the color of the question on the card. It sounds weird but it was fine. I'd play it again. We also cracked open the sparkling pear juice we'd picked up; it was interesting. I think I prefer sparkling grape but it wasn't bad.
I, for one, did not plan on staying up until midnight, because I no longer care, plus I was tired. And yet roughly five minutes before midnight, I woke up, so I did end up being awake. Shortly after midnight I heard this weird, ratchety sound; I'm guessing it was the people a couple houses away, the one with two little kids, and they were twirling those old-style noisemakers. That was kind of cute, actually. And then came the fireworks from other neighbors. That was not as cute.
New Year's Day wasn't much of anything, though it was nice to have the day off. I spent part of it playing catch-up with a few thing, including doing stuff on the computer--back when the mini still worked. Sigh. I think I also tried to play catch-up with my backlog of newspapers. I don't know that I did a whole lot, and I honestly don't recall much of that day for whatever reason, but I know I did stuff that I felt needed to get done and that I did accomplish something, which is a good thing. And then the electronics went to pot, to my chagrin. Oh well. I'm still able to get online, and I have a computer which functions, so things could be worse.
Well, okay, it's me and my parents. What "actual" sort of excitement could there be? Mom and I both had to work NYE, but dad had been off; he ordered us Chinese for dinner. Eggrolls, sesame chicken, beef fried rice, and some sort of spicy beef that cleared our sinuses. Yum. We gobbled most of it up that night, and by the time lunch was over the next day, only one container of sticky white rice was left. My fortune made me laugh: "You will step on the soil of many countries." I don't even have a passport. I think you misspelled "counties," fortune cookie person. Either that, or I'll be heading to a museum with some sort of dirt exhibit. My parents, as has happened before, got the same fortune as the other. It wasn't even anything good.
After dinner, we played The Logo Game, something mom picked up at the Kankakee Walmart. Dad even played, probably because I'd warned him he'd have to. :) It actually was pretty interesting and kind of fun, though mom kept getting cards involving presidents and, like, the Bible. I kept getting ones involving Jack in the Box, a company that's not in the area, or at least it hasn't been since I've been aware. Mom said she used to get tacos there. Basically, each card deals with a particular company or related idea (the presidents card dealt with brands which share a name with presidents, like Hoover and Lincoln), and there are four questions per card. You get a question correct, you get to move to a space on the board which corresponds to the color of the question on the card. It sounds weird but it was fine. I'd play it again. We also cracked open the sparkling pear juice we'd picked up; it was interesting. I think I prefer sparkling grape but it wasn't bad.
I, for one, did not plan on staying up until midnight, because I no longer care, plus I was tired. And yet roughly five minutes before midnight, I woke up, so I did end up being awake. Shortly after midnight I heard this weird, ratchety sound; I'm guessing it was the people a couple houses away, the one with two little kids, and they were twirling those old-style noisemakers. That was kind of cute, actually. And then came the fireworks from other neighbors. That was not as cute.
New Year's Day wasn't much of anything, though it was nice to have the day off. I spent part of it playing catch-up with a few thing, including doing stuff on the computer--back when the mini still worked. Sigh. I think I also tried to play catch-up with my backlog of newspapers. I don't know that I did a whole lot, and I honestly don't recall much of that day for whatever reason, but I know I did stuff that I felt needed to get done and that I did accomplish something, which is a good thing. And then the electronics went to pot, to my chagrin. Oh well. I'm still able to get online, and I have a computer which functions, so things could be worse.