Not dead

Yeah, I know, I blitzed Livejournal like crazy for two weeks, and then nothing for almost a week. Blame New Year's travelling, renewed busyness at work, and the fact that Rebecca is back from vacation. Of course, I'm going to Puerto Rico for the next four days, so don't expect to hear much from me until next week.

That said, I promised to talk about my family's New Years tradition, which we made up ourselves. Each member of my nuclear family gets to pick two foods that they would like for the New Years Day dinner. These foods can be anything you want, healthy or [usually] not, homemade or not. If other people like them, we get enough to share, but you don't have to choose foods with that in mind. And it doesn't matter if anything matches or usually goes together: One year, we had seven fried foods and a chocolate cake.

This year, however, things worked out nicely. I picked crab legs and steak. My father picked onion rings and fruit salad. My sister went for a homemade milkshake and browned-butter spaghetti. And my mother had a chocolate cheesecake and figs. (Don't ask about the figs.) Bonus vegetables made their way to the table, but no one actually ate them.

Mmmm...talking about all of this has made me hungry...