This post is long overdue… but since one of my New Year’s Resolutions is to not put off until tomorrow what you can do today, here we are. By the way, this resolution has already borne much fruit, let me tell you. This morning I got rid of a jar of Hoisin sauce that was made during the years of the ancient Tang dynasty. Mystical, and yet, too old for cooking. And some apple butter from 2009, which was oddly, still looking just fine. (What on earth is in that stuff?!) Starting afresh in 2012!
Anyways, I have long wanted to draw your attention to the lovely Véronique’s new blog. Vie de Cirque: My life in a ten-ring circus is sometimes in English, sometimes in French, always worth reading for that Je Ne Sais Quoi that makes Véronique who she is. I intend to link to her blog often enough–for a dose of realism mixed with humour and wisdom when it comes to family life.
You knew her here first. Yes. May she always remember the little people along the road.
To conclude, another of my resolutions is to spend less time staring vapidly at my computer screen, writing and re-writing blog posts that are here one day and gone tomorrow. And let’s get serious–NO checking the random Facebook profile of a friend of a friend who just got married and wow, that’s a pretty dress, but actually you don’t know her and never will, therefore she is not here, not anywhere, not by anyone’s definition a “friend.” I’m digressing now, a terrible habit, the eradication of which will be a resolution for 2013, in the interests of not adding too much to my plate for one year. Happy New Year!
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Véronique adds: Well, what an awesome coincidence since one of my New Year’s resolutions (the kind that I will keep of course) is to contribute a post a month to ProWomanProLife! I wish I could think of Andrea as one of “the little people down the road” but I’d be happy to have 25% of PWPL’s traffic on my blog! To tell you the awful truth about myself, I found it very difficult to write about abortion while pregnant. And I have been pregnant twice in the last 2-and-a-bit years. So wait for it! (And feel free to make me feel really bad if I don’t follow through, ok?)
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Andrea adds: I will not hesitate to make you feel very bad. Publicly. You’ll rue the day you ever made this resolution. Welcome back!
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Re: Do abortions or lose your job. How about, pay for abortions via your health care premiums (which we still pay for here in BC) or lose your medical coverage! We’re all inadvertent and unwilling participants.
Happy New Year, Andrea. I’ll keep you in my prayers – I’m trying to cut back on my time-wasting surfing, too.
(So long, cakewrecks.com!)
Thank you, Mrs. Beazly!! (Just imagine how productive we’ll be when we diminish wasteful internet surfing. I expect to be a millionaire by March.)
Okay, so you mentioned this only in passing, but I gotta say …
You threw out the Hoisin sauce and the apple butter??!?!!
Law #1 Concerning Old Foods in a Dwelling Place: When you find an edible item in your house that is more than two years old and has not decayed, this is a signal that you should keep it to see how many more years it will last. With luck it will still be around to bequeath to the third generation.
Alternatively, you should send it, by mail, to a family member or friend. Or place it in your neighbourhood time capsule.
That is all.
Joel, I didn’t know about this law. Thank you, I will follow it in the future. 😉