Very quiet night
Hot Wings, Won Tons, Pretzal Pigs in Blankets, Salad, Pizza Bites, Chips and Dips, Mac and Cheese...Dessert is cake and ice cream...
Booze too;)
Dutch doughnuts, apple fritters, chocolate waffle rolls filled with whipped cream, beef/potato/egg salad and puff pastry appetizers with different kinds of harty fillings. And cocktails of course.
shareNice! You Dutch folks sure know how to eat well.
shareWe need our fatty foods because we drink so much! I just finished a whole bottle of cava!
shareCareful girl
The last thing we need is to pick you off the carpet in the morning;)
Like I said, it ain't a happy new year until I'm lying comatose on the bathroom floor! I've got my twin sister to pick me up and clean up after me!
shareDear Stratego,
You most likely will be reading this after you have come out of your “coma”. I do hope you had a fun time with your “kiss card”💋 completely full and fulfilled! With your menu on top of the booze it’s no wonder you would be heaving and lying comatose.🤪🤢🤮🤕 I use to find comfort on the bathroom floor quite frequently in the past. I determined it was quicker and easier to be beside the toilet than having to crawl from some other room into the bathroom. “Ralph” visited me quite a few times. But, then again being plunged into a tub full of ice cold water inside a funeral home works wonders also.
Funny how those two words “NEVER AGAIN” are short lived. I forgot those words so many times. As I wrote previously, I really did mean it one Thanksgiving morning when I had to prepare a 22 pound turkey at 7:00 AM for a crowd. I so wanted to stick my head into that turkey’s arse! But I was so cross eyed with a hangover I couldn’t tell which end was the arse!
When you feel human again will you be preparing pork & sauerkraut with a side of hog jowl & blackeye peas for the New Year’s Day feast! Sounds yummy, right? Works for me! LOL! Seriously...I hope you and my MC cyber pals have a Happy and Blessed New Year!
My lovely kspkap,
Of course I ended up on the bathroom floor, as did most of that menu, even though I was aiming for the toilet bowl. Unfortunately, I don't have a tub, maybe I should ask my sister to throw some icecubes at me.
People are still lining up for a little peck, but unfortunately no sign of Dewey. I have to admit I'm a bit disappointed.☹
I couldn't tell you right now which end is my own arse, let alone a turkey's. I applaud you. If had to do what you did, I'd be afraid of what might end up inside the turkey!
Hog jowl? Now why does that sound like something I just had to clean up in the corner of my bathroom?
Sweetie, I hope you know how much effort it took to write this post! If it weren't for spell check, it might've looked like I vomitted all over this as well! I also wish you and everyone here at MC a happy and blessed New Year! XOXO
Wow! You are awake? Maybe you should try some of the “hair of the dog that bit you” to feel human again. You are priceless as you gave me my first “out loud” laugh in 2018! Your reply was hilarious!
I know you are heartbroken about Dewey. You only have yourself to blame due to you being such a player while Dewey was absent. Fickle! Fickle!
I had no choice but to wake up, my family had enough of me lying on the floor while they were doing their "business" in the bathroom.
I'm glad you had such a joyful start to the new year. Unfortunately I'm not able to laugh. Not only because I'm still crying over Dewey and the hole in my coat, but because my body's hurting all over. God knows what I did last night. My family won't say, they just keep throwing me strange and judgmental looks. I did find some feathers in my bed again...
Better than a horse’s head! How did you get a hole in your coat? :-)
shareI was standing in the street minding my own business when out of nowhere I got attacked by a sparkler. I feel so violated.
shareGood thing it didn’t catch on fire due to the whole bottle of Cava you drank plus the bubbly. 🍷🍾 Alcohol is flammable you know.😏
shareGood lord, thank you so much for telling me, kspkap! Now I know to stay away from open fire at all times!
shareYou are wise to do so. Fire can leap from its source to fumes in the air, which includes alcohol 🍷! So don’t breathe! :-)
shareI'm so lucky to have you and your wisdom and experience to guide me through the challenges that life presents!
shareOh stop! You’re embarrassing me!😊 Don’t worry I will continue to have your back. We gals have to stick together! Look out for each other. If I had been there I would have got you out of the line of fire. Dewey would never forgive me if I let something bad happen to you. That is if I could have found my way to Rotterdam!
And with these replies I’m going to put on my taller boots....because the caca is getting so thick in here! LOL!
What caca? It's all sugar and spice and rainbows and unicorns in here! We're all BFFs and life is fantabulous!
I know you didn't want to be on my kiss card, but I simply can't help myself. A big smooch for you!💄😘💋
Oh goody...there is a la la land after all! I can believe again! As far as the kiss card, what happens in Rotterdam stays in Rotterdam!🤫
Caca is slang for excrement
Well, your caca smells of lilies and roses and I will share that fact with the entire world!
shareGotta find them boots👢 It’s getting thick in here!
share💖🌹🍦🍹🎉🌈🦄😽
shareYou are sweet and a whole bunch of fun!🤗 Forgot to let you know I’m also Dutch along with being second generation Polish.
shareGezellig!🍻
shareI had to look up the word, Gezellig. What a great word to describe so many things...a wonderful feeling, a nice person.
Almost euphoric. Thank you!
Graag gedaan!😉
shareOK...you got me! I’ll have to learn a few Dutch words. I’ll start here, but my brain is pickled from imbibing too much of the good stuff....you know the stuff which leaves you comatose on the bathroom floor.
http://www.dwotd.nl/2010/07/784-graag-gedaan.html
That's the good stuff indeed!
I love how the previous word was "liesbreuk". Seems so random!
Now why would I want to know the Dutch translation for a ruptured hernia?
bedankt for pointing
that out to me!
Seems like a handy word to know!
Who knows, maybe someday you're travelling all by yourself through the Sahara when suddenly you get a spontaneous rupture of the groin and the only living being you come across is an elderly Dutch tourist who doesn't speak any English. You're going to think back to this moment and be glad you decided to look up the translation of "liesbreuk"!
You may have something there for me to think about. Anything could happen when you least expect it, right? Good advice Stratego. BTW, I’m encouraging Deputy Dewey Boy to give you another chance.
I’ve run out of room to type...3 words to a line.
Fish on grill,chocolate cake,chicken on grill,cabbages.
shareChinese. Who the hell doesn't do Chinese takeout on New Year's Eve?
The question is: real Chinese (Beijing Duck) or fake Chinese (Moo Goo Gai Pan)? Pour moi, c'est la Chinoise verete. Touts.
R_Kane, we have Chinese food on New Year's Eve too, but I make my own. Instead of apricot puree, my duck sauce is comprised of seasoned cherry and lemon juices. I would like to make the classic version but apricots are hard to work with, and organic ones are difficult to find.
shareWe had beef lo mein with my own version of duck sauce for dinner, andreaahr. Our dessert was candy.
shareWe had sweet and sour chicken,chicken chow mein,curried chicken,egg fried rice and prawn crackers.
No pudding because we're so sick of puddings!
I drank 2 large glasses of red wine.#party animal!
Chopsticks?
shareNo,why?
shareJust that I'm chopsticks land right now and was wondering what it was like back home.
Chinese food in China is not the same as British Chinese food.
I know,I know.
I used to be married to someone who'd been to China and eaten REAL Chinese food and he never missed an opportunity to tell me.
But see I like Sweet and Sour chicken balls with the bright orange radioactive sauce,I like to pile it onto a plate with all the other stuff and scoop it up with prawn crackers and a fork.
So Chinese food back home is just as it should be,the wonderful Chinese community working their bottoms off making not real Chinese food for us and hopefully making lots of cash.
I've just reheated the leftovers for tea.Yummy tastes better next day.
I had Chinese food for Christmas eve.
I bought about $100 worth of it.
When they delivered it they brought it in 3 bags with about 20 fortune cookies.
They thought it was for a party. lol
I basically ate it for almost a week.
You're right it always taste better the next day. And the next and the next.
The tradition in my family (New Year's Day), tamales and black eyed peas.
shareI bought some tamales for Christmas.
Do you make your own?
I wish. No.
shareI've helped make tamales once. It's a lot of work.
I lived in the SW for quite awhile and always had good tamales.
After I moved It was a struggle to find good ones.
Last year I got some and they were the best I had ever had.
I went back this year and they became the worst.
Whoever made them last year must have quit and took their recipe with them.
So disappointing.
I could eat red tamales all day long.
Cheese, sausage, 4 dips, wasabi peas, fried mozzarella sticks, mini egg rolls,
several snack mixes and Spanakopitas.
I attended a New Years Eve banquet at a restaurant in Cambridge's Central Square called 'The Middle East". It was a good Lebanese food buffet, with baklava for dessert..no drinks for me, however, since it was way too cold. Saw some belly-dancing, which was interesting, as well. Not something I'd want to repeat, however.
I left shortly after ten p. m. however, first because I wanted to leave before it got too cold, and secondly, I don't like walking by myself in that particular area late at night (or anywhere, for that matter), even though I was parked only a couple of blocks away, because the area gets kind of sketchy at that hours.
It was an okay evening, however. Frankly, I think staying 'til midnight or after is overrated.
Nice.
Kind of a unique way to spend New Years. Especially with belly dancers.
Yeah, staying late is definitely overrated.
People start getting a little weird around that time.
Thanks, godewey.
It was an interesting evening. I'd never seen belly dancers before but it was fun to watch them. Since it was quite a cold night, and was supposed to go down even lower (the temperature, that is.), it was good that I left a little after ten.
At around midnight, people and things begin getting somewhat weird, generally.
I've never seen belly dancer before either. The cold has been insane the last week.
How is it when it's 20 below that it can get colder? Doesn't seem right does it?
I had a New Years party this year and for the record the people at my house
started getting weird a long time before midnight.
At least they were all weirdos I know.
It's weird ... explain this to me .... the Middle East is practically totally Muslim, and Muslims demand women be modest. So, where the heck does the belly dancer tradition come from?
shareWho knows?
The Middle East, as a region, is almost totally Muslim, but I'm really not sure where the belly dancer tradition does come in.