Happy New Year!
Did you watch the ball drop in Times Square (live or on TV)? Celebrate and sing Auld Lang Syne? Or did you fall asleep before ringing in 2025?
I made it way past 12 bells.
That’s nothing new for me but others in this household tried to hang with the big dogs and simply couldn’t do it.
Reminders of what NOT to do on New Year’s Day:
- Don’t do laundry. You’ll wash for the dead before the end of the year if you do.
- Don’t clean. You’ll sweep away good luck.
- Don’t wash your hair. That washes away good luck.
- Don’t cut your hair. You’ll cut your life shorter.
- Don’t eat lobster — they walk backward. (See #4 below)
Reminders of what you SHOULD do on New Year’s Day:
- Walk around the block with an empty suitcase. It will draw in adventure and traveling to new places in the upcoming year.
- Pack the suitcase with things that represent the vacation you want (like sunscreen and a bathing suit) before you haul it around the block looking like an idiot.
- Eat round foods like black-eyed peas for a financially prosperous year.
- Eat pork — they use their snout to root forward — and you’ll prosper.
- Choose the color of your underwear wisely. (Red for passionate love, pink for platonic love, blue for good health, green for freedom.)
- Eat cabbage to make more money in the year ahead — cook it with a dime to ensure this one works.
Now you know: The father of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved concubine, Sally, was also the father to Jefferson’s wife, Martha.