hummingwolf | Happy New Year!

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and the oaks are just too greedy
we matter more than you can never buy me;
taking me back to health.
--MegaHAL

So, after deciding that I would go out and do something on New Year's Eve, and then deciding to instead stay at home sulking and being miserable, I changed my mind one more time. Though I was a bit tired and headachy still, I decided that if I could walk all the way to the second-closest Metro station to my home, then I could go to a gathering for the new year. So I did. It was certainly more entertaining than the housemates' party I'd attempted to join in last year. (I would have said it was interesting, but "interesting" was everyone else's word. My word was "fluffy." This may be because while everyone else was getting Reiki'd, I was getting some much-needed quality time with some cats.)

All is quiet on new year's eve. Hail the calendar! As if

clocks will pause for a wise man.

If what you do on New Year's Day prefigures the year to come, then this year should find me feeling tired but not utterly wrecked, reading interesting books and poetry, getting a good nap or two, eating chocolate, and occasionally interacting with people who for reasons of their own refer to me as "normal." Not too bad. The year's first stressful conversation got to wait till a few minutes after midnight on January 2, so that could be worse.

For want of a dreamer's bed
is not where you must descend,
towards your worst fear

i have landed on the subway and i am that weapon
i won't stop and stare and stare and window-shop,
and tried what she could,
as good as theirs
i am no carpenter. I built
their two cents worth of longing for some notions of new year's day,
until they made themselves a part
of the opening.

Out of curiosity: If eating leafy green vegetables on January 1 represents dollar bills, and black-eyed peas represent coins, does eating canned spinach and canned legumes mean you will be getting canned money throughout the year? And if you add hot sauce, does that mean you will be getting hot money? Or does it just mean that your acquisition of riches will be a mildly painful but ultimately pleasurable process?

Silly superstitions really aren't made to be overthought like this, are they?

Eh well, I have no coherent thoughts left now. More later when I will, with any luck, have gotten something resembling a good night's sleep.

Lately, the weather aches;
the freshness of the hypotenuse.
with silver bells and tambourine,
i took my human fantasy
i shall remember your voice
is a small world after all
just to make noises in a chrysanthemum bed,
and days of auld lang syne?

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You know, MegaHAL's "Auld Lang Syne" makes just as much sense to me as the normal version.

I'm glad that you had a nice New Year's. Maybe it means that you'll be able to get out and have fun lots this year. ; )

You know, MegaHAL's "Auld Lang Syne" makes just as much sense to me as the normal version.

Me too. I'm not entirely convinced that Robert Burns and whichever anonymous poet he may have gotten bits of those lyrics from weren't simply having a joke at the expense of anyone who'd try to find meaning in the song.

(I'm not awake yet. Did that second sentence make sense? Or am I too heavily under the influence of old lang MegaHAL?)

I was never even able to make out the words until I was about thirteen. I always thought that they were saying "for all the time" or something like that.

That Burns, what a nutter.

If what you do on New Year's Day prefigures the year to come

I'm doomed.

::hug::

Quality time with cats = is there any other kind?

Depends on the cats. While I like cats in general, there have been some who did not much like me.

Benefits are like canned money... although you're probably right. Overthinking anything good-luck-oriented is generally unhelpful.

And yeah, I probably would've been over with the cats too; even considering I knew a bunch of people there. If you're familiar with both sets of social dynamics, then talking to people is nearly always harder. I still think Trixie would love you. If I could, I'd invite you over just so you could hang out with her.

Well, the cats weren't much removed from the people at the time. Mostly it was a matter of what I was doing and where my attention was focused rather than where I was physically located (although my attention likely would have been focused differently if I had ever gotten around to sitting in the Reiki chair).

I still would love to hang out with Trixie and her people one day.

Yeah, I figured that. I can't imagine G and them letting you physically isolate yourself without coming over and being friendly to you at some point.

Ah, there was no isolation involved anyway. I just wanted to explain why I was the one person there whose main word of the evening was not "interesting." :-)

I think maybe we're having two different conversations that only somewhat appear to match. Either that or I'm just confused on my own. I'm pretty sure I didn't mean what I suspect you thought I meant.

if I spill the salt shaker, I'll pick up a pinch of salt and toss it over my left shoulder
I try to go out the same door I came in
but yesterday
I forgot totally about the greens and black eyed peas thing.
Think it'll still work if I eat 'em today?! LOL
As Stevie Wonder once so eloquently said,
"Superstition ain't the way!"

I can't bring myself to believe in any new year's superstition myself. Really, the black eyed peas & greens meal just gives me an excuse to let tradition decide a meal for me so I don't have to come up with one myself. :-)

That said, I think today would be an excellent day for green leafy vegetables and black-eyed peas!

superstitions are silly? well, sure, but these are just for fun.

hope you have better days in this year year, cb.

uhm, hmm. i think i'm channeling megahal. in this NEW year, is what i was actually thinking. ;)

I hope you have better days this year year, too, Ms. Vicki. ;-)

If eating leafy green vegetables on January 1 represents dollar bills, and black-eyed peas represent coins, does eating canned spinach and canned legumes mean you will be getting canned money throughout the year?

This is the third "New Year's" food reference I've read today. Sauerkraut, cabbage and leafy greens. I've never heard of eating lucky food at the first of the year before. Must be southern and eastern traditions. I think they're interesting.

I actually never knew about lucky New Year's foods till I was in my 20s. But as long as you're not allergic to them, eating green leafy vegetables and black-eyed peas isn't a bad idea--if nothing else, those foods are more nutritious than most of what's served at NYE parties!

According to my family: eat black eyed peas for luck, greens for money, ham for love and corn bread for health! I don't think it matters if it's canned or not. :)

Well, I didn't have ham or corn bread on the 1st. Maybe pork sausage and corn tortillas are good enough. :-)

Happy New Year!

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