January 1, 2014: Our annual marathon New Year’s bash! Parenting tips! Worst of 2013!
Yep, that’s about how I felt this morning following last night’s raucuous New Year’s Eve celebration. Our guests were prompt, arriving by 7:30 p.m., as requested (or we were eating without ‘em). We had dinner, dessert, did the dishes and were done just in time for…10:00 p.m.! We still had TWO HOURS to kill! Now I’ve never run an Ironman Marathon but I’m pretty sure those two hours were akin to participating in one but with less swimming and biking and more meandering anecdotes and orange-flavored Grand Marnier.
Lasagna
Shrimp
Dessert
The traditional shaving of the chocolate onto the chocolate mousse.
Nerd dog!
Parents, please consult this handy guide to proper child care: http://funkypickens.com/how-to-be-a-parent/
It’s also a useful resource for non-parents as well. For instance, I found a few of these tips particularly informative:
As we look forward dot 2014, let’s look back on the mistakes of 2013 with these Worst of Lists:
The worst TV of 2013 · The A.V. Club
“Worst suicide attempt: Maya Lewis, Scandal
Scandal took gore up a notch when Olivia Pope’s mother, played by Khandi Alexander, ate her own wrists to get transferred from her high-security cell to an infirmary, allowing for her easy escape.”
“4. Man Of Steel
One of the most hilariously pretentious scenes in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises was the football stadium apocalypse, which was scored to a boy soprano singing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel sustains that same level of pomposity over 143 interminable minutes.”
The Worst Video Games of 2013 – Forbes
”Ride to Hell: Retribution is a spectacular monument to failure. If failure were Paris, Ride to Hell would be the Arc de Triomphe…”
Entertainment’s worst moments of 2013 | Toronto Star
“Harlem Shake: The backlash started in March. But the damage was already done. By early February, the Harlem Shake was a meme, a retina-singeing, eardrum-detonating series of copycat videos that proved talent was not a strict condition of popularity in 2013.”
The 5 Worst Toys of 2013 | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
The iPotty
The 20 Worst People of 2013 – Village Voice Blogs
“The bank held the mortgage on his Hermosa Beach, California condo. Unfortunately for Larry, Wells Fargo mistook him for another customer, who happened to owe thirteen grand in back taxes. Despite his protests, it doubled Larry’s mortgage to pay off the non-existent taxes. He quickly fell behind.
At some point, Wells Fargo discovered it had confused Larry with another resident of his complex. But the company foreclosed on him anyway.
Being a banker means never having to say you’re sorry. And you get to take people’s homes. It’s a win-win situation.
Larry lost his condo and was forced into assisted living.”
Horovitz: 5 worst ads of 2013 more than stank – USA Today
The worst social media blunders of 2013 | New York Post
The 39 Worst Words, Phrases, and Parts of Speech of 2013 | Mother …
“Donald Trump is considering a run for…” No, he’s not. He just isn’t. And if you’d like to get him unearned publicity, you should at least get some stock options out of it.”
“ ‘Results’ before the ‘election’
An election app released by the Central Asian nation of Azerbaijan had the incumbent president leading — a full day before the October vote. The partial “results,” blamed by the government on a errant test of the online app, showing hypothetical results from one district, had President Ilham Aliyev winning in a landslide. And he did.”
20 worst rap lyrics of 2013 – AUX.tv
Viral Internet Trends: Worst Internet Trends Of 2013 – MensXP.com
America’s Worst Charities – Tampa Bay Times
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