Happy New Year
January 1st, 2009 by COD
So I won the Ticket to Ride game last night, which gave me the honor of picking the next game. I picked Scrabble, which was stupid because I never win at Scrabble. I was in the lead in game 2 last night all the way to the final play, where Michelle used all her letters and ended up making up about 30 points on me in the final turn to win both games of Scrabble. The kids have decided that they are Scrabble fans so I think we’ll be playing Scrabble more often in 2009.
Then we watched Dr. Horrible. (We being Michelle and I).
Is it just me, or have the NYE specials on the networks become unwatchable? I almost cringed every time they moved the camera back to Dick Clark. I have this vision of ABC rolling Dick out of cryogenic storage once a year for the NYE special.
I feel like the Charlie Brown of New Years. I just don’t get it. It’s a completely arbitrary date. Somehow I expect if we dig into the history deep enough we’ll find the whole thing was the idea of some champaign producer. I think the celebration should be moved back to 12/21. At least Winter Solstice is an actual reason to celebrate. OK, I just checked Wikipedia. Apparently, we are celebrating the Circumcision of Jesus. There are so many things I missed by ditching my religious education classes as a kid.
3 Responses to “Happy New Year”
“Apparently, we are celebrating the Circumcision of Jesus.”
That’s just sick and wrong. And funny — it’s still just an arbitrary date, since Jesus wasn’t born in December and nobody knows exactly when he was born, anyway.
I like the Solstice idea (just like I like Christmas being 3 days after). Without being too graphic, cutting off the old to embrace the new seems like a good transition time…
But I’m really commenting just to make the immensely significant statement that the Horne family delved into Scrabble too (though I didn’t personally play last night I did the day before).
Rock on.
Insert “also” in the second sentence between “new” and “seems.”