{"id":407,"date":"2009-12-31T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=407"},"modified":"2009-12-31T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:00:51","slug":"misc-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/misc-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLIDAY: HAPPY NEW YEAR!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!<\/h1>\n

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Thanksgiving isn\u2019t the only time I give thanks; I try to do it daily, and always<\/em> at year\u2019s end! If it wasn\u2019t an absolutely rotten year, I consider it to have been a great one! I\u2019m constantly grateful for the one-of-a-kind Mr. X, my precious Clarence, my funny little mother, the patient Lou who manages this site, assorted nutty pals, relatively good health (knock on wood,) and YOU!!! I hope next year I can add\u2026being my old skinny self again, though I\u2019m not holding my breath. Well, maybe just for pictures or to close my jeans!<\/p>\n

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This is a still of Jacquie Lawson\u2019s animated New Year\u2019s card. You can join for the smallest fee ever at www.jacquielawson.com and send as many as you like. A word of caution: don\u2019t just forward ones that you receive from others; they have personalized greetings, so they\u2019ll have someone else\u2019s name signed. Awk-ward! <\/p><\/div>\n

I also want to welcome the latest additions to what my friends and I lovingly call my \u201cguy collection,\u201d which has gone through a lot of changes over the years. I have high hopes that I\u2019ll always have sports-watching company in the future with the 2009 births of Benjamin Infield, Marcus Josselyn, and Noah West. Can\u2019t wait to have fun kids around again (in five years from now, though,) since Ronnie Hazel, Terrance Jones, and Alex Hazel are now in their upper teens! How did that<\/em> happen???<\/p>\n

Speaking of my guy collection, the other day I came across some internet survey about which male celebrity you\u2019d most like to kiss on New Year\u2019s Eve. There were thirty-four choices and without even telling Mr. X who was on the list in general, I asked him who he thought was the overall #1 choice. He got it right immediately–Adam Lambert!!! I guess I\u2019m not the only one who loves that boy! (Not Mr. X<\/em>! All the people who voted for Adam on the survey! Mr. X thinks he\u2019s amazing, too, though–I just didn\u2019t mean that he wants to kiss him.)<\/p>\n

Adam had actually been <\/em>my #1 choice, too, until I looked at the whole list and saw\u2026Maks! Maksim Chmerkovskiy, from Dancing With The Stars <\/em>has ended the year as my #1 celebrity crush! I still don\u2019t understand how that happened, because I used to hate him, but I\u2019m sure he\u2019s thrilled to hear it. I know Mr. X is thrilled because he always says I\u2019m \u201ctoo much woman for one man.\u201d (He used to mean personality-wise, but now I think he just may be referring to my weight! Charming.)<\/p>\n

Okay, here\u2019s the last <\/em>important thing of the year to impart to you guys, so pay attention. I\u2019m pretty superstitious, especially about things that bring good luck, like always knocking on wood if I even think<\/em> something good! (FYI–you can always knock on your head three times, if no wood is around.) There\u2019s one ritual I do every New Year\u2019s Day and another I do EVERY MONTH! At the risk of having you all think I\u2019m completely bonkers (like you didn\u2019t already?), I still want to share them with you, my loyal readers, hoping some of it works for you, too. (Unless you\u2019re wishing something bad for ME. Bite my tongue! Which I did as I wrote that. How does Mr. X stand it???)<\/p>\n

Okay, the special New Year\u2019s trick is to eat black-eyed peas on January 1. They can be canned, frozen, fresh, whatever. (Is there even such a thing as fresh ones?) You can eat as many or few as you like, cold, hot, anyway. I just heat them up, throw on some seasoned salt, and choke-down about half a cup of those suckers. It\u2019s once a year–you can stand it.<\/p>\n

This one I kind-of hate to tell you, but I\u2019m hoping you all deserve some good luck. Here goes: it\u2019s called RABBIT. There are a couple of ways to do it. First up, the specific wish. On the last night of every month, as you drift-off to sleep, think of the wish you want to come true and don\u2019t talk. In the morning, the first thing you must say is \u201cRabbit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other way is for good luck that whole month, so I do them both. When you wake-up on the first of each month, kind-of pop-off the end of the bed (I just schooch down to the end with my butt and gently propel myself off) while saying \u201cRabbit\u201d three times. (I\u2019ve heard it as 1, 2, or 3 times, so I just go with 3 because that covers all bases.)<\/p>\n

I know you guys are probably just scratching your heads over all this info, but trust me on this one. I\u2019ve been doing it since I was a little girl and I really do believe in it. I used to put a sign by my clock to remind myself, but now I just put a little stuffed rabbit there instead. So much more fun to wake-up to than paper.<\/p>\n

Try it and see. It\u2019s worth a shot. Best of luck with it, and please let me know how it works-out for you.<\/p>\n

And most importantly, I wish you all, and this whole crazy world, an absolutely wonderful 2010.<\/p>\n

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!   Thanksgiving isn\u2019t the only time I give thanks; I try to do it daily, and always at year\u2019s end! If it wasn\u2019t an absolutely rotten year, I consider it to have been a great one! I\u2019m constantly grateful for the one-of-a-kind Mr. X, my precious Clarence, my funny little mother, the<\/p>\n

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