Day in the Life of an Idiot

 
Image: A picture of a bunch of goofy people in front of a Christmas tree (from left to right: Mason, Lyda, Shawn).

I can't say that 2024 has started out particularly marvelously. I tried to make blueberry muffins, overmixed them, and got gluey lumps. I found out that I've been blocked from someone's DW, which has thrown me into the kind of self-doubt and concern that one has when such things happen and you don't know why (like, did I do something? Do they regularly just cull less active friends? Or am I a horrible person who has said something offensive?). My car has decided to draw on its battery when it's off, again, which means 50/50 it will start. 

We did, at least, sleep in. We have a nice meal planned for this evening. It's traditional for our family to make wild rice soup on New Year's Day, since we always spend the day taking apart our Solstice/Christmas decorations/tree. We also got up and brought in the dimes (wrapped in silk) that we always place outside of our door on New Year's Eve, so that, symbolically, we can bring in fortune for the new year.

Does your family have special New Year's Day celebrations? Anyone out there doing resolutions? I am making myself a kind of challenge for 2024, which is to try to have more of the fabrics I already have stockpiled in the house go out rather than brining too many more in. I am finishing up a Star Trek quilt with eyes on another one for a member of our group, but I usually only need a few specialized fabrics for those. So, it should be a do-able challenge. I am trying to think of it as a challenge rather than a resolution, however. I always fail resolutions. Usually I adore challenges. 

You?