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pallagia

Going crazy...

Dec 31, 2003 15:48

It is 3:48 on New Year's Eve. I have work to do, but nothing that can't wait until Friday. I'm off to a New Year's party tonight, and I can't wait to get outta here, more than usual. There is no way I'm staying a minute past five if I can help it (my usual hours are 8-6, sometimes with lunch, sometimes not ( Read more... )

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zeroshapiro December 31 2003, 12:56:59 UTC

Pickled herring? That sounds like my kind of tradition!
My new years tradition is usually going out, spending too much money and having a crappy time. I didn't have a crappy time last year but ended up with someone I barely know hating me. Maybe that can be a new tradition...

Pickled herring is GREAT! pallagia December 31 2003, 13:02:59 UTC

I love the stuff! YUM! Only in wine sauce, though.

Re: Pickled herring is GREAT! wonderpanther December 31 2003, 13:25:04 UTC

I am not crazy about the cream sauce either. walltack likes that crap, though.

Re: Pickled herring is GREAT! pallagia December 31 2003, 13:31:35 UTC

I don't know, too much cream for me. I like the tang of the pickled part. Then again, I love dill pickles, so I guess this makes sense.

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Creamy goodness! yuckapoo December 31 2003, 13:56:19 UTC

Pickled herring in cream sauce with onions all the way! I think that comes from my mom's way distance Polish roots.

There's a Greek tradition of eating Vasilopita. It's a sweet bread (that is very good for cooking French toast)... kinda like challah bread but less eggy. In this huge circular loaf, there's a coin. Nine out of ten old wives say that if you get the coin in your slice, you're to have good luck for the upcoming year.

I took a trip to Queens last weekend specifically to pick up my loaf. Erek and I will split it, so one of us is bound to be lucky. Hopefully one of us will get lucky on New Years too.

HURRAY!

tradition psychowoof December 31 2003, 19:13:44 UTC

what New Year's traditions do you celebrate?

None, which is probably why I really don't care for New Year's.

As a kid, we'd head down to my grandparents to celebrate my Grandmother's birthday on the 1st, but I wouldn't really call that a tradition. Since I've known aslanspawh we've probably only spent about 4 New Year's together in a traditional sense. I think for all but one year (the year we were in Austrailia) of our married life together, he's had to get up to work at 3am on New Year's Day. This year he doesn't, but he won't be getting home until late.

Think I hosted one ill-fated New Year's party in high-school. I nearly impaled aslanspawh's friend Garrin in the head with a pen - it narrowly missed him and got lodged in the sheetrock behind the couch.

Re: tradition pallagia January 1 2004, 17:12:57 UTC

Yipes! Remind me not to piss you off!

Re: tradition psychowoof January 2 2004, 09:31:27 UTC

Yipes! Remind me not to piss you off!

Yeah, it just added to the fear aslanspawh's friends had of me. I've grown out of that stage, and I think even mdsteele47 has outgrown the flinch reflex I conditioned him into. :)

No tradition here opalene January 5 2004, 10:51:09 UTC

I've never heard of the pickled herring thing or the new socks! I don't think my parents ever passed down any sort of New Year's tradition. I've heard of eating saurkraut on New Year's Day, but we don't do that either.

I guess my family tradition is all about the alcohol and the CHAMP-PAG-NE.