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Friday Feast No. 124

Appetizer
How do you usually celebrate on New Year’s Eve?

    Most years we stay home and, if we’re feeling particularly festive, we might break open a bottle of bubbly grape juice. I know, we’re totally crazy. This year, though, we’re actually going out to dinner! And then we’ll come home sometime before midnight to toast with the grape juice. We moved back into the Eastern time zone this year, so it’ll be the first time in years that we’ll actually be watching the ball drop at midnight rather than 11pm. I’m actually pretty excited about that.

Soup
Name one thing unexpected that happened to you in 2006.

    Holland. We moved there, and then (a whole week later) we moved back. It wasn’t a fun time.

Salad
Where was your favorite place that you visited in 2006?

    Harbor Island, SC. We had an unexpected vacation at the beach, and it marked the end of a lot of chaos for our family.

Main Course
What resolution is your top priority for 2007?

    I don’t normally make resolutions, and I’m hesitant to call this a “resolution” because it seems like it would be too easy to fall away from if I do that. But I’d like to lose about 40 pounds in 2007.

Dessert
Using just three words, describe 2006.

    Things fall apart. I know that sounds depressing, but a good part of 2006 felt like we were falling apart. Rest easy, though. We’re all better now.

The Friday Feast is a weekly meme intended to “feed your mind by asking thought-provoking, mind-stimulating questions.”

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Flotsam / Jetsam

Wiki Wednesday: Simple Simon (Musical)!

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.
3. Post it!

Simple Simon was a Broadway musical with book by Guy Bolton, and Ed Wynn, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, music by Richard Rodgers, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, and starring Ed Wynn.

It originally played from February 18, 1930 to June 14, 1930 at the Ziegfeld Theatre, then reopened on March 9, 1931 at the Majestic Theatre.

The play, a loose plot designed to show off Ed Wynn’s fumbling, clowning, punning style, cast him as a newspaper vendor who spends his time in a fairy-tale land where bad news doesn’t exist. The song “Ten Cents A Dance” was introduced by Ruth Etting in this show. “Love Me Or Leave Me” by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson wa interpolated into the show about two months after it opened.

“Dancing On The Ceiling”, cut during the Broadway previews, was eventually sung by Jessie Matthews in the London production of Ever Green, and became a standard.

Wiki Wednesday is a little something started by Verbatim.

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Flotsam / Jetsam

Kittens and scary, scary toys


I was looking at these sweet little dumplings this morning, and it reminded me that last night I dreamed about tiny baby kittens. Oodles and oodles of squirmy little kittens wandering around, so small their itty bitty eyes weren’t even open yet. I don’t remember anything else about the dream.

Speaking of dreams …

Poppy has a little singing Elmo-Ernie-Cookie toy that might just give me nightmares. It has three buttons, one in front of each character. Pushing the button makes the top of the character’s head lift off, and then the little fella sings a note. And when you hold the button down, the character repeats the note in short, bleating bursts. And Poppy is watching “Sesame Street” with her foot firmly planted on the Elmo button. And he’s saying, “RiRiRiRiRiRiRi.”

And I’m frightened.