Good evening my Corona friends. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and didn’t add to the spread. Santa is going to remember those who didn’t abide and there will be a lot of coal next year. Sure didn’t seem like it was a holiday this year. Just another day in the life of living in the time of Corona, where every day is groundhogs day. This would have been the best year to enjoy a nice long weekend, with Christmas falling on a Friday, so can we please have a do-over.  Funny I was talking to my friend Cher today who had been looking forward to celebrating with her son and daughter-in-law since it was “their turn” when the other mother said what a bummer it was your year. I said for sure this has to be a do-over year and not count since no one was traveling. I guess we will have to see where we are next Christmas but I can tell you, I won’t be here in my ever-shrinking loft with Techie, lover, MacGyver, and roommate because one of us won’t survive, don’t forget we also work together……

Just enjoyed another dinner from a box and tonight we actually cooked it together, why should he have all the fun?  One problem I read the ingredients wrong and as a result, an extra half cup of water made it a bit soupy. Got to improve on those reading glasses or the Chardonnay fog. I was remarking to Techie tonight that they should really bring back Sandra lee and her Semi-Homemade show. It is the perfect time for it. It was kind of like cooking from the box, add a few prepared ingredients, and doctored up the chicken and good to go. We would probably skip the tablescapes. She loved to decorate the table and they were great, just didn’t know where to stop. Reminded me of my cousin Janice who just loved to decorate, for every occasion. The best part of Sandra Lee’s show of course she always had a special cocktail at every table and believe me she had a nice heavy hand with the pour. She was the Vanna White to any of these TV chefs and I vote we bring her back.

This year we won’t be celebrating New Year’s at our place, well at least not with a dozen of the people we love the most. I have been hosting New Year’s dinner for more than twenty years and I actually do cook an amazing dinner, or at least by the time we all sit down at 10 pm, it is scrumptious. Lots of apps and drinks before we can get to dinner. I love this evening just with close friends and not having to get dressed up. Although this year I would have called for formal attire just to wear clothes other than our sweats or elastic waist pants. I swear I am not going to do a zoom. I know I might have a bit of a breakdown if I have to usher in the New Year on a device, yes we have officially gone to Plaid.  Do you think it was a harbinger of what was to come when last year after most of the guests had left during clean up I dropped a knife on my foot that was spurting blood like Mt Vesuvius?  It was a tiny cut but my Lover thought it could be serious and at the advice of the nurse hotline called 911.  Well after a visit from a policeman in charge and his two officers they brought in the two young EMT women and after pulling the bandage off my foot, she smiled and said “I think you are going to live”.  I may have to call them back this year so I can feel like it is a bit of normalcy, now who’s crazy? I actually turned into my mother and asked the Policemen, who were very cute, if they were single and tried to fix them up with the EMT gals. Apparently, I was not the first.

I was hoping there would be Fireworks, which usually happen over the harbor at midnight, but no, Covid has taken those as well. I mean it’s outside and freaking freezing, so fifteen minutes of lighting up the sky to Say F U 2020 is mildly appropriate but that’s out as well. Well, we will just have to make our own Fireworks and get Sandra Lee to do our tablescape and there you go, Happy New Year!!!

I am not going to go into any New Year’s resolutions as I have had nine months to make some changes and the only thing I did was rearrange some of my furniture. I didn’t even do the deepest purge like so many people in the beginning with all the cleaning and reorganizing, no pretty much laid on my ass watching Law and Order for the 37th time, but 2021 is going to be very different, just now sure how. See you all next year.

Just saying…………………..