The first Sunday in 2021
Hello 2021. It's a pleasure to welcome the new year and see the end of the last one.
New year's eve was a bit different for us as we stayed up until midnight. Not intentionally, we just lost track of time after music and dinner and a movie. Usually we are in bed long before the ringing in of the new year.
Naturally we stayed in but that wasn't different from the previous decades. We had long since avoided getting involved with all the traffic and overpriced and over crowded restaurants.
This year we had a nice dinner of homemade crab cakes and yummy cheese grits. A glass of Veuve Clicquot with dinner, finished off the bottle listening to music for a bit. Afterwards we watched a movie and then surfed around looking at news, Twitter, etc.
Around 11:30 we heard fireworks and gun shots, pretty typical for people to get started early around here. The rain came in close to midnight but that didn't stop people from shooting and firing off more fireworks. We felt sorry for dogs around here who get rattled by loud noises because it was nonstop after awhile.
Watching
Die Hard movies - because Christmas movies like Die Hard 1 and 2 are on the agenda. Also watched Love, Actually but we gave It's a Wonderful Life a skip this year.
Reading
Our reading time picked up in December and we knocked out quite a few books. For our bookclub in November Doug and I read The Searcher by Tana French. We read it at the same time, a book club of two. It's fun as we progress through the plot and chat about it.
Our book in December was Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith. We both enjoyed that massive tome and neither of us pegged the killer early on, so that's great. Suspense.
I finished up Fallen Angel by Jenny O'Brien (book three in the DI Gaby Darin series), Frozen by Ann Cleeves (A 36 page short story I received free from Amazon) and Harbor Street by Ann Cleeves (book 6 in the Vera Stanhope series).
Doug read Jane Harper, devouring her mysteries The Dry, Force of Nature and The Lost Man. He also read a Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child.
Next month we do the book club thing again when we receive Jane Harper's latest book The Survivor.
Listening and sipping
We listen to CDs and vinyl many evenings. It could be classical, Beatles, Mark Knopfler, Keb Mo' or jazz. Depends on the mood or what we can decide on. The change in the den is the absence of booze on the bar and an empty wine cooler. We have decided to particpate in Dry January and after that bottle of champagne was gone last Friday, we have been abstaining. This isn't the first time we took a break and gave our heads/livers time to detox. I'll let you know in February how it went and where we are going from there.
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