Today is the last day of the year. I woke up late and did my morning pages. I did get dressed in some leggings and my hubby's dress shirt. I expected hubby to work late, maybe to 7 or later but he surprised me by showing up at home before 5! He said he was sitting there with hours of work ahead of him, he had end of the year inventory and all sorts of reports to do. But he said that since he had to work Friday, he would just do the reports then and he was crazy to take me out to dinner. I dressed in some jeans and a nice top and we headed out. At first we were going to go to Hu Hot, which is a Mongolian BBQ. Yeah, I didn't know what that was either until hubby took me there a year ago. It is buffets full of different veggies and meats that you pile up high on a bowl, as much as you want of anything. Then you go over to the sauce station and choose from all these sauces, just one or a combination of sauces. I add 7 ladles full to my bowl, then you stand in line to the grill. There is the chefs and they take your bowl of stuff and put it on the grill, which is a big circle. They cook your meal and then when it is ready, they plate it and give it back to you. I love it! But it wasn't quite what I wanted, so we talked on the way there and decided to keep heading up the road and go to Cracker Barrel, another of our favorites. Good food at good prices. And plenty of it!
We got there at 530pm and got seated right away. There was a good crowd there already, families and older couples, but still plenty of seating available. We ordered and then played the game they had on the table. Our food arrived shortly after. Hubby had the rib eye steak rare and I had the Apple and chicken salad on a bed of greens. They offer salad dressing so I tried on that had an onion name but I didn't like it so I asked her to bring me some french. But by the time she brought it, I had finished my chicken salad and was full. We had a nice dinner and then perused the store in front. We always buy our favorite old fashioned candy here and then I went a little shopping crazy and picked out some clothes for our granddaughters, the one year old and the unborn one, due February 22nd. Then I had to have a miniature toy pig that you add batteries to and it will walk around, scrunch up it's snout and oink.
We bought all our stuff and then got back into the car. Hubby wanted to go to the book store and look at some graphic novels and I wanted to look at some crochet books but the store was closed, so we drove home and checked out the used book store but it was closed also. Since it was right next to Target, who was open, we went in there to look at the books and dvds. We found several movies we wanted and I found 6 Debbie MacComber books I haven't read yet so I bought those. Now here is where my desire to spend money took over and I decided we would take a walk around the store the long way to get back to the registers, hence more chances of spending money. We found some clearence infant clothes and got some pants and onesies for the soon to be born girl granddaughter. Our total there was almost $150! Oh boy, so glad we were done! We headed home.
We got home, fed the beasties and let them out, then retired upstairs to watch movies. Wanted to watch What about Bob with Bill Murrary but watched a couple of the movies we bought instead. I looked up and realized it was 1159pm and we turned on NBC just in time to see the ball drop for the last 24 seconds. We counted down, holding up celebratory beers. When the ball touched the bottom and it was midnight, we kissed. So romantic!
Daughter Cassie called and then we skyped. She was with her fiance, Drew, his parents and his sister with her boyfriend. We passed congratulatory Happy New Years around, they were all dressed up nicely and we were in jammies, and then said our good byes. Cassie and I always talk after midnight on NYE to tell each other Happy New Year's!
Hubby and I stayed up until 130am, just watching tv and then drifted off peaceably to sleep.
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