...of a new year. We've had a pretty tough time of things since I deployed to Iraq back in '05, but I really feel like the tide is starting to turn in our favor. Not very quickly, just yet, but turning nonetheless. Thank goodness.
Tired today. I woke up around 11:30 last night to go the bathroom and couldn't get back to sleep until about 2AM. Sigh. So I slept in later then I wanted today, 'course, and the day seems to be going too quickly. I ended up hopping online for awhile and doing some genealogy, since I haven't in a long while. I found a bunch of DB's ancestors, and it looks like these stretch back over a millenia in England, Wales and France, so that was a fun find. Especially since they're all on her Dad's side (her Mom has absolutely nothing good to say about him...despite the fact that she once liked him enough to marry him and bear him two kids, and she's no peach herself). The bizarre thing is it appears she is descended from the long-ago Counts de Thouars of France. The same Counts de Thouars of France from whom Willem de Thouars (and his brothers Maurice, Paul and Victor) is descended. That means my wife is a (incredibly distant) cousin to one of the martial arts masters I admire most...lol.
DB is making dinner, for which I am very grateful. Especially since she is making her navy bean soup. Forget "Tyler's Ultimate"...this is The Penultimate!!! Lol. I don't think he could do any better. I'll make some skillet cornbread to go with it later. We begged off with the friends that we're supposed to come over for New Year's Eve. DB and I think we might have had a bug, or eaten something bad. She's had it worse then me, and is really just getting over it. I'm tired from last night. We just aren't up to it today (we also have a lot of stuff to do today and tomorrow...they would've spent the night).
Had lunch yesterday with a dear friend, and her roommate, and she showed me an oriental supermarket down in Portland, where I picked up a big jug of soy sauce (for kecap manis), fresh galangal and lemon grass, Korean corn tea (for DB), tahini, and some evil chocolate-hazelnut spread (yum). This means that a 'tomorrow's honeydew' is making up a big batch of kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce).
I'm doing dinner for New Year's Day itself, with a Georgian theme: basturma (grilled marinated meat) with narshrab (a spicy pomegranate sauce), khachapuri (cheese-and-herb filled yeasted flatbreads) and anor va pioz salati (an Uzbek salad of red onions, tomatoes, pomegranate seeds and cilantro). I expect to have enough to take a little in for a couple of coworkers on Friday. One of them is from the Republic of Georgia (of Kirghiz and Polish-Jewish parents...lol. They've got as many Heinz 57's over in the former USSR as we do here).
Just finished a couple of slices of the pizza we were going to serve our guests. About time to get busy...this has gotten long enough. I hope everyone is having a good New Year's Eve. Be careful out there...we just got back from a grocery store run, and the flake factor is running exceedingly high out there.
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