# (Old) Happy New Year 2024 MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 1, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-happy-new-year-2024-mmp/995435 "2024-01-01T05:00:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 38
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-happy-new-year-2024-mmp/995435/38 "2024-01-01T16:33:47Z")
_Started Typing: 9:44 AM ET Clicked Reply: 11:33 AM ET_ Happy New Year, everyone! šŸ„‚ šŸŽŠ I spent many hours yesterday playing with Legos, and got through section 9 of 15. More than halfway done! The set is in the ā€œassembling various floors/parts separatelyā€ phase, and progress photos wouldnā€™t really look like much, so I wonā€™t share any further pics until itā€™s done. I chuckled at **pilot** ā€™s jokey ā€œTuesdayā€ completion estimate in the last thread, but Iā€™ll spend several more hours on it today and finishing it actually isnā€™t out of the questionā€¦weā€™ll see! At around 9:30pm I decided to watch the first Harry Potter movie as a way to distract myself/stay awake until midnight. I paused a little at the realization that the movie was released 22 years agoā€¦ šŸ˜® If Iā€™d gone straight through it would have ended at ~11:40pm (I chose the extended version), but I had to stop it a couple of times to let Bailey outā€¦and also when someone on the street behind me set off fireworks at around 10pm. I actually had a perfect view of them from the couch (through the dining room window), but they were _loud_!! Way worse than the noise on the 4th of July. Luckily, they didnā€™t last long. At around 11:30pm Bailey needed to go out again, and I realized that I was tired and would rather watch the ball drop from my bed (on the small iPad I keep next to it). So I turned off the movie ā€“ Iā€™ll finish it this afternoon ā€“ and took care of the doggy, did the bedtime routine, and tuned into CBSā€™s NYE show (via Paramount+) at around 11:58pm. Perfect timing to see the ball drop in NYC. Other neighbors made some fireworks racket for a while but nothing as loud as earlier, and I fell asleep to an episode of _Wings_ (which has replaced _The Big Bang Theory_ as my bedtime show). Iā€™m still going to my BFFsā€™ today, but not until this evening and itā€™ll likely be just a quick stop (vs staying for a holiday dinner). Wife BFF still has a fever and tires easily and probably wouldnā€™t agree to anyone else going to the house today, but itā€™s _me_ ā€“ and we all want to see each other and exchange our gifts. And I want a cookie care package. šŸ˜ And last night I learned that Husband BFF has made his famous lemon bars! I _love_ lemon bars, and his are divine!! Unfortunately, Iā€™m 99% sure they have too much sugar for me to tolerate well these days (post-[RNY](https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/gastric-bypass-surgery/about/pac-20385189)): I wonā€™t take any of them home, but Iā€™ll definitely have one while Iā€™m there and will simply deal with any consequences. Iā€™m glad today will be another slow/quiet day. Iā€™m not dreading going back to work tomorrow ā€“ by and large I actually enjoy my job ā€“ and Iā€™m mostly ready to jump into planning this yearā€™s events for my volunteer organization (the first ones are next month!), but I have a feeling January will be quite busy both professionally and personally and Iā€™m happy to put it all off for one more day. As for resolutions, I love this: > [@TruePisces](#): > > I stopped resolving but started making goals. Hear, hear! Resolutions feel like setups for failure. I know the start of a new year is a completely arbitrary thing, but I canā€™t help it: every January 1 I do feel _some_ personal inspiration/hope. My biggest goal for 2024 is to lose the weight I regained last year ā€“ and thereby not defeat my bypass surgery and endanger my health ā€“ which comprises lots of smaller goals: continuing to do the psychological/emotional work, adding cardio workouts between personal training sessions, controlling my snacking, etc. I have professional and musical goals, as well, but nothing as critical as this one. Iā€™ve never seen a šŸŒ¹ Parade, but this thread prompted me to do some Googling about how to stream it: it started 15 minutes ago, and I just started watching via YouTube. These floats are so impressive! Some catching up from last year before tackling 2024ā€™s postsā€¦ šŸ˜‰ > [@(Old, or maybe we mean Aulde) Happy Christmas MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-or-maybe-we-mean-aulde-happy-christmas-mmp/995108/283): > > Theyā€™re starting a once weekly Zumba class here in the early evenings. Iā€™d intended to give it a try. Hereā€™s hoping itā€™s a bit more exercise and a bit less skillful dancing than what you experienced. I wouldnā€™t say ā€œskillful dancingā€ ā€“ **FCM** put it way better than I did: > [@(Old, or maybe we mean Aulde) Happy Christmas MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-or-maybe-we-mean-aulde-happy-christmas-mmp/995108/287): > > I tried a Zumba class once and never went back. The woman teaching it apparently expected a class full of people who knew what they were doing and could do it fast, even tho it was advertised as a beginner class. I spent most of the time just trying to figure out the order of moves. ā¬† THIS. Every time I started to ā€œgetā€ something, it changed. Which is why it wound up being not much of a workout: I spent a lot of time just kind of standing there, maybe waving an arm or a leg around, trying to figure out how to copy the instructor. Like I said, Iā€™ll try it again in a couple of weeks with the regular instructor in case thereā€™s any difference, but if the experience is similar that will be the end of my Zumba experiment. šŸ˜ > [@(Old, or maybe we mean Aulde) Happy Christmas MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-or-maybe-we-mean-aulde-happy-christmas-mmp/995108/299): > > This is a [ramekin](https://www.wayfair.com/Tuxton--Tuxton-Round-Duratux-Ramekin-BEX0452-BWX0452-L7097-K~VWU10093.html?refid=MX79439859179610-VWU10093&device=c&ptid=4583039401740208&targetid=pla-4583039401740208&channel=BingPLA&network=o&query=ramekin%20dishes&msclkid=1336d6f9b3841057aabdb36bb5f98a59&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=WF.P.US.G.Housewares%20(SCA)&utm_term=4583039401740208&utm_content=49_7097_0~%5BGLOBAL%5D%20Kitchen%20-%20%5BBakeware%5D%20Baking%20Dishes). This is a [monkey dish](https://www.webstaurantstore.com/acopa-5-oz-ivory-american-white-rolled-edge-stoneware-fruit-monkey-dish-case/303TRE11.html). Ahhhhh! Thank you!! > [@LSLGuy](#): > > A great start to a new year. Sounds like it! And a somewhat private party with people I know/like would beat a bar or restaurant any NYE for me. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > things just went ā€¦ well. Steady, but no ā€œ90-minute wait timeā€ bullshit. Yay! > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > itā€™s the first of the month, so Higgs gets her flea and heartworm meds Bailey gets hers on the first Saturday of each monthā€¦but earlier this morning I got my ā€œ1st day of the monthā€ reminder to change the furnace filter. šŸ™‚ > [@scareyfaerie](#): > > I must be ill, Iā€™ve turned down the offer to tea. Twice. Ohā€¦oh my. Thatā€™s quite serious. šŸ«‚ > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > **FCD** has gone to McDā€™s to fetch a couple of diet cokes for us Wife BFF _loves_ Diet Cokes from McDā€™s, and for many years her birthday and Christmas gifts have included McDā€™s gift cards specifically for use on them! Itā€™s become a running half-joke. This year her main gift is a ticket to a spring Indigo Girls concert, but sheā€™s also getting a $15 McDā€™s card. šŸ™‚ --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-happy-new-year-2024-mmp/995435)._