Happy New Year's Eve

We're not big NYE types. No drunken parties for these girls. This year NYE is the only holiday I'm not working. And I'm starting a five day stretch off. Why not celebrate?

A friend is coming over for dinner. I think he'll hang with us for the evening but I'm not sure.

I've been sick for two weeks and I'm itching to cook again, so watch out world. The menu: store-bought appies, butternut squash lasagna with toasted walnuts, garliky black kale, and for dessert, orange scented olive oil and almond meal cakes which I think I'm going to glaze with grand marnier. Yum.

We're going to drink the last of the wine we brought back from Napa. A Hagafen chard. And I'll prob pick up some champagne.

Then we're going to a neighborhood bar with the FAB Miss A. to have my last drink of 2005 and maybe my last drink of 2006. Think positive!

By the end of all this I hope to be feeling pleasantly buzzed and relaxed.

Lasty, breakfast. I'm thinking whole wheat waffles with a blueberry compote and fresh apples, black tea served proper, maybe orange juice, sitting around in PJs and contimplating a movie later.