What happened New Year's Eve? So glad you asked. Yesterday afternoon I was in the doctor's office getting diagnosed with food poisoning. As it happens, it was a mistake to have ordered the pescado al dia the night before.
That said, I look a damn sight better than poor old Dick Clark, who apparently cannot be stopped. Happy New Year, people.
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We bought a bottle of cheap sparkling wine (Cook's California Champagne--I have some family out there but no idea if they're related) (not knowing any better) and I put it in the freezer--I thought it was big enough to need the colder temperature to get down to a drinkable temperature.
Oops.
Turns out it didn't need that much time, and there were ice crystals in it by the time we got it out. I forgot my physics, so when I undid the stopper (Yeah, another bad sign, it wasn't a cork, but a plastic stopper) the drop in pressure immediately caused a lot of the water to freeze out and it turned the bottle into a slow, but beautiful fountain. That part was worth the price I paid for it)
After it finished spurting (really, no more than an inch above the bottle), I poured some into glasses and shared a one-sip toast with my wife. There's a reason ice beer didn't catch on.
Happy New Year, and prayers for your digestive health.
We did two things, one bad and one not-so-bad:
The bad: We watched the movie The Transporter, with Jason Statham (Blu-Ray). In the early evening hours of the last day of 2008, this movie jumped to the top of my list of bad cinema experiences of 2008 to become The Worst Movie I Saw This Year (overtaking Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).
The not-so-bad: I followed that with Things We Lost in the Fire. A Lifetime-movie-ish story starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro as, respectively, a new widow and the heroin-addict best friend Berry's late husband, it was a decent, if not excellent, film, with some good acting and interplay between the two leads. Some crude language, but otherwise refreshingly clean re: sex, violence, etc., and some great performances (I thought) by the kids.
So sorry to hear about your time of tribulation, Rod. My brother in law had food poisoning this year. He got it at the company Christmas party. It does put a damper on the sense of celebration. May you feel better soon!
Rod,
You have had met your quota on stomach ailments these past weeks! Didn't you and the rest of the family, recently experience similar maladies around Thanksgiving? Enough, I say! Stop it!
Wishing you, Julie, Matthew, Lucas and Nora health in '09.
What Sue W. said + Bless your baby heart!
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