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When we were little, my dad always made us eat saurkraut and pork on New Year's. He had this German saying he'd repeat whenever we asked him why we had to eat it, and when we asked him what it meant, he told us it meant "Saurkraut and pork are good luck."

Years later, I found out it meant "Saurkraut and pork make you big and fat."

Dammit, am I the only person who went back to work?!?

No.

No.

No, I'm here tizz. Maybe everyone made a New Year's Resolution to spend less work time at 9622.net. If that's the case, we should be back to full strength by, oh, next Tuesday.

And here's something fun for the new year -- Sam Pepys has a new blog, and his first entry was January 1st. That is, January 1st, 1660.

No, No, No-no, no-no-no-no.

I am at work and sick. Cranky.

here too.
dumped.
hating life.

(that wasn't meant to be a haiku - so chill out)

"Everybody eat their Hoppin' John for good luck?"

Not exactly, but I did eat something yesterday that had me hoppin' TO the john this morning. Thankfully I have taken the rest of the week off, so I was at least hopping to my own.

Goneill, sweetie, I am gonna drive down to Louisville and kick some bartender ass. That boy ain't right.

Witchstone, honey, get yourself some of that Day-Quil. It gives you a pleasant delusion of wellness, especially when washed down by gin.

Thank god I'm not the only one chained to the old cubicle. I salute you, my fellow wage slaves.

Poor Crash! Dear, you need to drink to Lily the Pink - For she invented medicinal compound,
Most efficacious in every case.

OK, who else needs mothering?

**waves from cubicle**

**sighs with disgust**

Mothering? yea, as what is up with the black-eye-peas. As this morning at work every greeting has inclucded, Did you eat your peas...

Now I'm translating it to do with some good luck custom in Texas or the South looking at this thread...

tizzie - you might be the nicest person in the world.

OK, get the pillow and shove it right into my face...

Oh...you said "mothering."

Never mind.

Happy New Years gang. I'm not at work...but only because I'm a member of the chronically unemployed...Dallas being a wasteland for jobseekers at the moment. ;)

And yes, we had black eyed peas yesterday. As the old Southern tradition goes, "Eat poorly on this day, so you eat well the rest of the year."

:)

You are at work being a mama, Dejah! Work enough for anyone, in my opinion.

Diaper changing :: cubicle farming. Plenty of manure involved in both enterprises.

"Eat poorly on this day, so you will eat well the rest of the year."

I salute you Dejah. That is the best darn explanation I've ever heard for black-eye-peas, thanks.

Lil Tommy is lucky to have such a knowlegeable mommy.

hey, I just rolled out of bed about an hour ago. I still feel like mung from new year's eve.

Why do you build me up
Buttercup
Only just to let me down
And mess me around
And then worst of all
You never call baby
When you say you will
But I love you still

I'll count on y'all to sing back up for me.

In metal news, Dio Replaces Ozzy in 'Osbournes' Cast.

Uh-Oh. That means Ian Gillan can't be far behind.

Start stocking up on canned goods.

If you're a cowboy, and you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine.

I love Jack Handey. Still.

Now, this whole black-eyed pea thing has never come up before until yesterday, when it came up three times.

Does this mean that I've had bad luck all those other years of my life, and this year will be extra special? Or is there no recovering from my lack of black-eyed peas over thirty-some years? And now that I know about the black-eyed pea tradition, do I have to learn how to cook them myself?

Any of you black-eyed pea traditionalists know of any good recipes, so I can be prepared for next year? I have to cover my ass, now that I know....

Cowpea

They are grown throughout the southern U.S. as a hay crop and for human consumption.

I had some cow yesterday will that do, Godod luck God?

As long as you aren't vegetarian, get your black-eyed peas in a can from Glory Foods. They are perfect. Cook up a little rice, and have some Glory collard greens too. Make one of those Jiffy corn bread mixes - they cost something like 33 cents. Good luck, and tastes good too.

Did someone say "pee?"

*unzips*

PeeWee!

Damn, and I thought a little monkey-time this morning would get me back into the swing of things. You guys are depressing. Looks like we are going to get another storm tonight. (Talking about the weather again, bad sign.)

Happy New Year

I have a couple cans of Hopping John on my pantry shelf,and until the next food drive that is where that will stay. No, I was not the one that bought it in the first place.

By the way, I am back. Happy New Year to all the monkeys.

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