How was my day you ask? OK, you didn't ask. But you might have been wondering. We left for my parent's house at 11:30. My mother had been seeing to every detail of this get-together, and I wanted to make sure we were there on time. I think I mentioned that we always went to the folk's house for a big ham dinner on New Year's Day. Since my mother's stroke, we've had some events at her house, but us kids did everything. This year she was determined to take care of it, and attendance was required. I picked up the platter my mother had ordered, along with the beer. My sister got to the house early and set out all the appetizers. There were 11 of us, and we ate a lot. Chips and dips and cheese and crackers along with a bread bowl with dip. Then we had a late lunch of all kinds of deli meats, cheeses, breads, potato salad and Fumi salad (a kind of Asian coleslaw). Somehow we squeezed in the banana pie. It was just a relaxing day at 'home' and my parents were very pleased to have us there. We made up that we'd do it again next year.

We got home around 4:30 and I've been sitting on the couch for the last 4 hours. I've done a few loads of laundry (fortunately the laundry room is only about 20 feet from the couch). I've caught up on all the newspapers since before Christmas. I couldn't tell you what I've learned and wonder if that wasn't a waste of time. I've had the TV on in the background and watched the news, ET, and a show on The Discovery Channel called Dirty Jobs. I really wanted to start a book but instead I've just been lazy, lazy, lazy. It's a good thing tomorrow's a new day. I do not like being lazy. Lazy is not my thing.