Are any of you making New Year’s Resolutions? I stopped making them several years ago and only think about making changes in a general way. Like trying to eat better, get more exercise, but never anything very specific. Perhaps that has been my downfall.
For sure I will eat some black-eyed peas, cabbage and cornbread on New Year’s Day. I already made the stock for them from Thanksgiving’s turkey carcass. It’s in the freezer waiting for the first day of 2020.
Old wives say that the black-eyed peas are for good luck and the cabbage is for prosperity since the greens represent money. I’m not sure what the cornbread is good for but the meal certainly wouldn’t be as good without it.
And let’s all be glad we live in Texas and not in the Midwest, because they think eating pickled herring is good luck. I’d rather have black-eyed peas any day.
And also related to eating is that I still want to start a column about food somewhere else in the paper, so I guess that will be my resolution this year. When I wrote in this space about doing so the first time, several people started sending me their favorite recipes. One of them from Joan Jenkins Wiede is for hog’s head cheese. I haven’t ever made that or even tasted it as far as I know.
Here are a few things I could work on:
I resolve to remember why I’ve walked into a room.
I take blood thinners so I resolve to try to remember where all these bruises came from.
I resolve to pay more attention to my knees because they can predict rain sometimes.
I resolve to try to help my roommates (my roommates are my mom and dad for those of you unaware) to throw away leftovers in a more timely manner.
Instead of telling myself that I will start an exercise routine I resolve to just take my fat, spoiled Pug for longer-than-usual walks.
I very much need to resolve to get organized in my office. I will probably need some divine intervention in order for that to happen.
I resolve to clean out the refrigerator at The Rockdale Reporter. Oddly, there are several bottles of citrus-flavored diet green tea that have been in there for at least a year according to my coworkers, and no one knows who brought them. And really, why bother? It doesn’t sound very drinkable to me.
I could resolve to stay up until midnight to ring in the new year, but the chances of me making it to midnight are pretty slim. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I stayed up until midnight.
But whether you make new year’s resolutions or not, I hope everyone has a fantastic 2020, and I hope lots of good luck befalls our little town.
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