Bringing In The New Year Properly
Jan. 2nd, 2023 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse
Image: Mason reading his way into 2023.
I know I'm supposed to make excuses for our messy house, but I see a house that's lived in and cozy.
Shawn obviously took this picture over her footstool which is, as always, covered in books and lists. (She's currently re-reading, as you might be able to parse, Stephen King's The Shining.) You can see edges of my current quilting project, Mason's Switch, a D&D manual, all the holiday cards we have put up on the piano window, and more piles of books. The red thing on the floor on the right is Buttercup's sparkly binket that comes out for Christmas and stays near the fake fire place until Mason heads back to university. (The binkie is a tree skirt that we successfully put out ONE year before Buttercup claimed it as "the thing I love the most in All The World" and will drag it away from the tree to "gut" it and sleep on it. So, now it just comes out of the Christmas decoration box for him to have.)
Our New Years was lovely. On New Year's Eve, I made surf and turf. I happened to see lobster tails on sale at Kowalski's (a locally owned grocery chain) and managed to find decently priced steak, as well. I have only ever made lobster tails at home once before. When I made them before I baked them. This time, I decided to try a boil? I had been unaware the extent they would curl up. So, they were a bit unexpected looking, but they were still very delicious. With steak and lobster, I made twice baked potatoes, green beans, and a salad. We popped the top on some sparking apple juice and toasted the end of 2022 and welcomed 2023.
And, then we all settled into our corners and read, sewed, etc.
Seeing The Shining there reminds me of the best Christmas stocking gifts that I gave Shawn this year. We do stockings mostly for the candy. But, Shawn had made a silly comment several weeks before Christmas about how one of the stripes on her heavy winter socks looked a bit like the carpeting from the Overlook Hotel from the movie. That got me wondering if there was any swag out there for the Overlook Hotel and there absolutely is! So, I bought her a keychain for room # 237 (yes,
rachelmanija I know it should be #217, but there's more swag for the movie than the book, alas,) and a coffee mug from the hotel "gift shop." I also made strips of confetti to stuff the stocking with that said, "All work and no play makes Shawn a dull girl." BY chance, she also decided to start a re-read and so the presents had PERFECT timing.
At any rate, Happy New Year to you all. Any resolutions out there this year? I've decided not to be resolved about anything in particular, though the usual "I should probably do more of"s still apply.
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Date: 2023-01-02 04:27 pm (UTC)The Shining is probably the second horror novel I read (after that YA classic Carrie), so it's dear to my heart.
How does Shawn feel about the sequel, Doctor Sleep? The movie version of Doctor Sleep improved Kubrick's movie, IMHO, and I liked how the sequels together sort of split the difference and met in the middle.
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Date: 2023-01-02 04:51 pm (UTC)I've also read The Shining and King's Christine. Shawn is our big King fan in the house.
I like your resolution.
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Date: 2023-01-02 11:16 pm (UTC)Lyda, your house is marvelously cozy. And I love everything about Shawn's presents.
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Date: 2023-01-02 07:55 pm (UTC)I am delighted by the entire idea of Buttercup's binky.
P.
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Date: 2023-01-03 09:32 pm (UTC)K.