Two years ago tonight I mentioned making preparations for New Year’s Eve, but I did not mention anything about our celebration. There’s not much to it, really, but it’s a bit of an extravagance. I buy quite a few foods I would not buy at any other time of year, from pizza rolls to spinach puffs to pigs in a blanket to potato skins to mini eclairs. My evening is spent getting such things as french toast sticks and chicken dippers and potato puffs heated and served in a continuing feast, along with making a punch that contains soda, several fruit juice concentrates, and sherbet. At midnight we bang pots and open doors (this was much more difficult when we tried to keep all the cats inside, but that seems to be an objective we have abandoned, and the cats do not wish to be inside when this racket is raised). My wife is big on the tradition of chasing out the old year and letting the new one arrive; I’m in it for the food.
I mention it because that’s where I was late this afternoon, first visiting the store that
- closes early on Sunday
- has the best prices and
- will be limited in selection,
and then going to the other store where I can get those items not available at the first, as long as I am willing to pay for them.
I did a bit of editing on the Romans notes–my pastor, who took the time to encourage me after church and to thank me for the Corinthians list which he says he is compiling into his own file copy, is looking forward to being able to browse through them when I’ve finished. I’ve also started writing a new song, about passing through a portal to a new world, which I keep poking at when I’m driving or otherwise intellectually underoccupied, but which I keep telling myself to save for Thursday so that I can involve Baxter and Brittany in the process, both of whom are hoping to get a bit of teaching on how to write songs from me, and not to snub Adam, he should be part of it, too. If it comes out well, we’ll add it to the Collision repertoire.
So I guess I’ve been busy, although the largest single thing in terms of time I did yesterday was take an early evening nap, which by then I needed.
–M. J. Young
