All Is Quiet, On New Years Day

Hmmmm. Day one. I don't have squat to write about. We said goodbye to 2011 last night in style,(and by style I mean a $9 bottle of champagne, a brownie and some X-Files) It started raining at about 10pm which I felt was symbolic and actually made me really happy. Literally washing away 2011. It was a nice, uneventful quiet day today. I woke up feeling great and laughing in spite of myself at all the sorry sorts who probably woke up hungover feeling like crap from too much Ringing In. We went to church, where my pastor all but took the words right out of my head, "What a great way to start the new year, in Gods house surrounded by fellow believers." (Not his exact words but close.) I was literally thinking that when we were getting ready this morning. There was just something rejuvenating about going to church this first day of the year and it was nice. We came home and had our leftover Oklahoma Joe's for lunch and I washed mine down with what I call a fuzzy mimosa. A mimosa with a splash of peach schnapps. I don't usually enjoy adult bevies with lunch but I thought life is too short, especially on New Years day and dammit, I'm going to get my $9 worth from that champagne. We had a nice afternoon here in the house tinkering on our computers while daughter type person (we call her Leu) napped. When she got up she had her customary half chocolate granola bar and juice box (tho today she wanted some lemonade! HA!) and then we hopped in the car. We cruised around several Northland (a large suburban area of the northern section of KC that we call home, for those of you not in KC) subdivisions gawking at homes we'd love to live in and daydreaming about our future plans to own one while Leu watched a Thomas DVD quietly in her carseat. We got home and I whipped up a pot of my amazing taco soup. Husband had a beer and I made a champagne mojito ($9 people, it doesn't grow on trees and someone worked hard making that bubbly, I'll be damned if it's going to waste on my watch.) Husband and daughter did some homework together and then played in the living room while I did some Yelping. Star Wars was on and I'm amazed at how knowledgeable Leu is with Star Wars. She loves 3CPO (not a typo-- what she calls him). Leu went to bed and we topped off the evening with a season 1 X-Files double feature (we only recently finished the entire series and decided to start it back up again, obsessed is a generic term but will suffice) and a bowl of ice cream. I had the Breyers Chocolate Chip. It literally tastes like frozen chocolate chip cookie dough (without the anxiety of salmonella poisoning!)I swear Breyers is the best ice cream brand in the world. 


There you have it folks. Day one. Done. I feel like this is a tad boring but there just wasn't much downfall to the day. I'll take it! If only every day was as simple and easy (PSH!) My only complaint is that I had to toss two would-be perfect avocados because of severe bruising (really folks learn how to handle produce!) and I struggled a bit with the toothpaste cap tonight because 'someone' screws it back on too tight. :-) 


Talk to you all tomorrow!