HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

2026 came in rather quietly for us.  As usual we planned an early dinner out.  Pete wanted to go out to a high-end restaurant, but I just couldn’t pay $80 for a piece of meat!!!  Especially when I rarely eat steak, etc.  Weird, I know, for a kid who grew up in a meat market, but I guess I just saw too much of the behind the scenes when I was 10 years old.  Anyway, we went to one of our favorite bar restaurants.  We got drinks and dinner for way less than that $80 hunk of red meat!!!

Made it home in time to turn on the Miami/OSU Cotton Bowl game.  We watched about half of the first quarter but had to give up.  Don’t know who it was calling the game…. but he was absolutely terrible!!!  I mean the worst ever!!  So bad that we couldn’t continue watching a game we both wanted to watch.

So, then I turned to playing my favorite game on my tablet and Pete was watching “American Pickers”.  Now, you have to understand, typically we are in bed by 9 PM.  Pete watches TV while I read my current book.  Usually, lights are out by 10 PM.  Last night I was determined to stay up to watch the Ball drop on Time Square.  That would typically be very tough for me to do, given my usual schedule, but I had had a couple of Rum & Cokes.  Being particularly sensitive to the caffeine in Coke, I knew I would stay awake.  Pete made it until about 9:30, and then headed for the bedroom.  Our usual New Year’s Eve tradition is, I stay up, a few minutes before midnight I wake him up, hand him a glass of champagne and when the ball drops, we kiss, drink our champagne and then he goes right back to sleep. 

Well, this year, for the first time ever, about 11:50, he comes out of the bedroom, gets his glass of champagne, and sits down beside me.  FIRST TIME EVER!!!

It was still 2:30 or so before I got to sleep due to all the Coke.  But this morning when I woke up, the first thought on my mind was, “It’s only 22 years until I turn 100 years old!”  Where the hell did that thought come from????