New Year’s Eve 2009

New Year’s Eve 09 was a different sort for me.  BB took over from HB the party duties, and while I always have a good time with my friends, something was different that day.  I just didn’t feel like going to a party with other people and all that.  I wanted to stay in and snuggle on the couch, watch the ball drop – actually, I wanted to watch Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Netflix!), pig out, and just enjoy a quiet night in.  This year marked the 10th year since I first went out for NYE instead of staying in with my [...]

Christmas Eve & Christmas Day Feasting

Ohhh boy, it’s the Feisty Family Christmas Eve Feast!  Actually, it’s going to be both days – Christmas Eve & Christmas… nomnomnom.  Above you can see the Xmas present I gave my sister – a tiered serving platter stand.  The platters are dishwasher safe, shatter resistant, and came with 6 platters – 3 clear, 3 clear-red, and I believe 2 divided (one each).  Perfect for our family gatherings – it creates so much space and allows us to display the appetizers nicely.  Grape tomatoes, deviled eggs, chips, homemade salsa, carrot sticks, black olives, celery sticks and I’m not sure [...]

Cluster Potluck

Much like last year, my cluster at work had a potluck to celebrate the holidays.  It was a fun, inexpensive way to get everyone together and mark another year survived at our firm   Per what is now I guess tradition, Mama BB brought in Popeye’s fried chicken, half spicy, half regular.  Mmm that was good.  I accidentally took a piece of spicy but yowsa… yum!  Another what is now tradition: Mama LC’s pernil.  Damn, if last year was good, this year was even BETTER.  I didn’t think it was possible, but super succulent and tender and [...]

Thanksgiving 2009

I know it’ll be January before this post goes live, but people seem to really enjoy my Thanksgiving posts or posts where I talk about what my family ate, and I really enjoy writing them… so it all works out.  Right?  Right As I’ve mentioned before, it’s not a Feisty Family gathering if there’s no deviled eggs.  Thanksgiving 09 was no exception.  Yum!  (I won’t tell you how many I ate… it’s quite gross.)  This year, my sister prepped everything, but it was my cousin who actually scooped/plated them Our usual crudite, this year with blue cheese.  [...]

New Year, More Announcements

Happy 2010, y’all!  2009 was a year of a lot of ups and down and all arounds, but it’s over and now we’re in 2010.  Wow!  2010!  I remember as a kid thinking 2010 was SO far away, but I guess it wasn’t that far because I’m here now…  In any case, much like I did last year, I’m shaking things up in the new year!  I have a big, huge, BIG HUGE announcement coming up, but that will come sometime mid-month or end of the month, not so much now… so stay tuned Secondly, I’m hoping to return [...]

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