The photo above is of the fireworks at Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Their new year began at 3:00 p.m. today.
Sadly, the fireworks are just beginning in the ghetto and will be working their way to the grand finale tonight. Banjo is already pissed despite his steak dinner this evening. I just returned from a quick dash to Kroger for buttermilk and champagne (not to be consumed together) and passed the huge fireworks store that is very close to my house and the parking lot was jammed full both times I passed it. It’s going to be a long night. But there will be champagne!
Tomorrow, there will be more Downton Abby if I don’t finish it tonight. I will also be making collard greens, that I wish were turnips with ham hock and trying out my homemade pepper sauce. I will also be making black-eyed peas. I won’t be making the canned kind, though I do eat that a good bit. When I first moved out of the house, Mother gave me a can of black-eyed peas and cornmeal, and an onion. She said I should keep those three things on hand at all times and I would always have a quick meal. To this day, it is something I make at least once a month. Also, we are a turnip greens family, not collards. But alas, a prewashed collards in a bag right were there next to the peas and I settled.
Once again, I want to thank you guys for another year of reading. I am glad to usher out 2016 as the website has been somewhat of a PITA between the ad agency’s financial incompetence and insolvency and the change over to the new design and the exodus of the basket of deplorables and their constant harassment. However, you guys make it all worth it.
Oh and you may have noticed I didn’t put up the “Come for the Tea, Stay for the Shade” tagline. I felt like that was a bit dated when I started the blog and it’s even moreso now. I may or may not go back to it, but in the meantime, I’m considering new options. I like this one.
Thoughts?
Let me know your new year traditions in comments. And for the love of GAWD when wishing each other Happy New Year! please note there is no ‘S’ involved. It’s a New Year. Point blank and the period.
That’s me, and my resolution to stay mean in 2017. Now there is one I can keep.
I’ll pass on the greens, peas and champagne but it doesn’t have to be New Year’s Eve for me to ” Eat A Dick !”
Happy New Year, CUNTAMARA……you’re the best at what you do.
heh nice work, B!
Wow, that sounds like the old Louisville holiday feast I sadly divorced out of. Missing only the braunschweiger. Happiest of happy new years to you all, first and foremost TT.
Usually it’s a big prime roast of beef and friends, which I now regret not doing. Weren’t feeling it this year so we’re going to some party, which should on paper be a lot of fun and starts around 9. But I always think New Year’s Eve is kind of tedious with all of the forced frivolity. We’re already planning on leaving the party before midnight and sneaking home if we can. lol
Despite everyone who died and who got elected President this year, we actually had a pretty good 2016, so I’m thankful for that.
Tradition is the Vasilopita Cake, which has a coin inserted after baking. The first piece of cake goes to St. Basil, the second to the house and then in descending order from Father/Mother/kids by age. Whoever gets the coin in their slice has good luck for the year.
Happy New Year everyone!
Or chokes and doesnt live to see the new year?
Black-eyed peas, collards/kale and pork roast with cornbread. A nod to husband’s southern roots.
Happy New Year, TT and the TT family. I enjoy it here more everyday.
They ran out of black eyed peas at Sprouts last night!!! and I’m not in the south!
I wish I could share, I bought freshly shelled peas for the first time this year and they came out amazing. My greens are good too, especially the pot likker but I should have used the spare ham hock in there or had some bacon to add. Still delicious and less fattening though so it’s a win.
Happy New Year!! You are always my go to for tea. Give Banjo a kiss for me!
Happy new year TT, banjo and to all the commenters here. Being on west coast it’s still early here. It’s been cold & raining here in AZ. It’s just me the dog, hallmark movies & of course alcohol tonight. I plan to have a fire tonight (even if it’s a no burn night). My dog Sophie hates & is desperately afraid of fireworks among other things. Needless to say I dread tonight. What sucks more is having to share my Xanax with the fucking dog. It does help her get through it (her being calmer also helps me lol). To all of you going out, Please be safe. Cheers to 2017 being a great year. 🎉🍷🍷🍷🎉
Happy New Year!! I’ve been sick with the flu for almost a week, but I’m all sparkled up to go out tonight. I should take a new picture for Facebook and the deplorables who have found my “multiple” Facebook pages and discovered that I sometimes only use one n instead of two when I post here, usually by mistake, but whatever floats their boat. I Hope you and Banjo have a fun night! Xo
Happy New Year to be all, we are still several hours away in Cali. Just heard the first of many fireworks to come. It’s been raining steadily here all day. Being a German-American, we celebrate with sauerkraut and smoked pork cutlets. Wish you all the best!
Happy New Year, Tamara!
I don’t have any traditions for New Year’s Eve or Day, but did send off 2016 with a new car purchase today. While fun, I don’t plan to make it a tradition! Otherwise I’m ringing in the new year in my jammies with two kitties on my lap and a bottle of wine on the table (and I wouldn’t have it any other way.)
Whew! I was beginning to think I was the only one who has no New Year traditions! I usually choose to stay in NYE…too many drunks on the road. But tomorrow, I am going to hear Maceo Parker live in San Francisco. Great way to start 2017! TT, I am thankful this day for your consistency! Stay mean; it gives me comfort! MWAH!
Thank you for this blog and all the work that goes into it, TT. I’m enjoying it more now also.
Hope you and all commenters/readers here have a safe and enjoyable evening, as well as a healthy and happy 2017! Peace be with you!
Love reading how others celebrate and different traditions. Also love “Eat a dick”! Thanks for the laughs all!
I am cooking all the same, my question is about the other traditions like not washing clothes or sweeping ??? I’m southern through and through but never heard of this until I got married.
I was just reading last year’s New Year’s Eve message just now and was thinking about what happened last year on NYE. It was a hilariously bumpy start to 2016. It involved me, and my gay Parisian BFF for my extended stay there and the trouble we got up to ringing in the New Year together. It’s a hilarious story. Perhaps I will post about it tomorrow.
Then I realized that Banjo was here alone on NYE last year and I got the sads and gave him a treat. I intend spoil the crap out of Banjo for 2017. He’s had a rough 2016 too especially around the time of my surgery when I was unable to be at his beck and call.
HERE WE GO!
Happy New Year!
It is vulgar.
I like eat a dick or may I suggest death by fire, that seemed to get a few people got under the collar. Our tradition is to watch the Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper replay on New Year’s Day while trying to recover from vodka shots the night before. Happy New Years to everyone!
Went to a great party last night & that’s when I put a tourniquet on 2016. Tonight, I stayed home and watched a couple movies, which was nice. Initially, I intended to make sushi, but my motivation went up in smoke. 😎 So rather than dinner I took 3 nites of espresso ice cream. Mmmm.
The dog is in her thunder vest waiting for firecrackers to start. Joy.
Happy New Year(z)! 😇
Haooy new yearQ!
You are nuts. Sorry. Happy New Year.
I sit with a lady in hospice. She was supposed to pass within 3 days, and it’s been over 6 months. She was tired of hearing the same passages of the bible, and I was running out of positive stories, so I started summarizing your posts and reading the “one liners.” She’s never watched reality tv, but it doesn’t matter. She belly laughs over your sense of humor. She’s in her 90s, so I have to censor some things, but she loves your purple pen. I read to her from the boohooers’ site, and she told me to stop. It was boring and depressing. She’s living life to the fullest all the way to the end. She’ll enjoy hearing that a fellow German posted about pork and sauerkraut. So, your blog’s a community service, too. Thanks Tamara.
It is now 1:22 AM West Coast, and I now can’t sleep. I did sleep until noon.
Had to go to the doc this week. I have until Monday to get better, otherwise we’re talking chest xray and maybe a hospital stay for either oxygen or higher powered antibiotics. (I’m on antibiotics which make feel like shit anyway, so it is hard to tell if I am better.)
I skipped the prescription cough syrup so I could drink tonight. I didn’t do wine, but whiskey. Back to the syrup tomorrow, along with some Netflix and Amazon Prime (I’ve already blazed through The Crown. Oh damn that was good)
Happy New Year TT and everyone. I’m glad 2016 has come to a close. I’m looking forward to a good 2017.
Happy New Year TT, Banjo, and the entire commenting TT family !
After a NYE spent working during the daytime hours, I came home and made myself some appy’s of chicken livers wrapped in bacon, shrimp cocktail, crab cakes, and lobster cakes. And of course some pink rose bubbly (nod to LVP, but mine was Korbel with raspberries in it). I drank while I cooked and sat down for a bit to nibble and promptly passed out cold at about 9ish.
It’s been a remarkable year with surgery and treatments but I’m very grateful to be healthy and able to sit here and chat with y’all.
Today will be spent with my breakfast of biscuits, country sausage gravy, bacon, eggs, and steaming hot coffee. Life is good. Trash tv or maybe a movie or two and sitting my fat ass on my couch which is exactly where it should be.
Looking forward to another year of reading, commenting, gardening, and sharing our lives on this blog!
Thank you for all you do TT <3
Happy New Year !
My husband and I always go to the movies on New Year’s Eve. We saw “Fences” with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. It was excellent!! I know TT would enjoy it. I am looking forward to watching the new season of Sherlock tonight on PBS. Benedict Cumberbatch is one of my favorite actors. Happy New Year to everyone.
I watched Denzel in “Man on Fire” last night!
Happy New Year!!
I swear, I took a shower and my ears when cleaning them got so blocked that I was asleep by 8:00, woke up at 8:30 this morning, and heard nothing. And I’m in Las Vegas.
Under these circumstances, thank god for the internet. 😉
Just noe with the eating of dicks. Flashbacks to when I was kidnapped by cannibals. Thanks in advance for your sensitivity to my condition.😘
Ahh, poor Catherine 2.0, missing one of the finer more refined -cough- pleasures in life.
Happy New Year room, may all our dreams see the light in 2017.
Haha. Been there, done that, got the fucking trophy. 😉
Happy new year Tamara! I definitely like the eat a dick tagline. It’s very you, and really gives new people a pretty good idea of what to expect here.
Eat dicks and die?
Happy New Year and thank you for the end of the year ride on the crazy train which apparently is also the gravy train.
I made my traditional “3 luck” soup which is a home made ham stock based soup with black eyed peas, turnip greens, ham, tomatoes, onions #younameit . It’s seasoned with fresh thyme, garlic and sage… soooo good! Pro tip: honey baked ham bones are usually on sale 2 for 1 and make this soup amazing!!