Wednesday is the day that the grocery store sends out its ads in the newspaper.  I always read the ads because they always have some bargains.  If you buy 50lbs of cat litter you will get a dust pan for free.  A 15lb turkey will get you a box of stove top dressing.  and so on.  I rarely ever buy any of the things they advertise but I like to see what they think I might want.  What I really want is for them to go down on their prices and quit giving stuff away for free.  I do not need a new dust pan.  What I need is the price of toilet paper to go down by about 50%.  Our maid is an Herbalife devotee and she spends about as much time in our bathroom as she does cleaning.

I have been observing the cookie aisle at our grocery store and it has begun to shrink.  Cookies used to occupy one side of an entire aisle.  Now there are no more that 12 ft of cookies and they are mostly made up of Oreos, Keebler elfs cookies and Mexican cookies.  What the hell gives with the cookies.  We miss having options.  I like Nutter Butter cookies.  I like those chocolate pinwheel cookies with the gooie marshmellow stuff in the middle.  Who the hell decided to quit selling those things?  Did some nutritionist decide that such a cookie would shorten the life of a 71 year old man?  How many of those things would I have to eat before I started showing side effects.  Hell, the medicine the doctor prescribes for me has more side effects than a good marshmellow cookie.

I am planning my New Year’s day menu.  I am having black-eyed peas, with ham hock, cornbread and chow-chow.  I have recently become enamored with stuffed jalapeno.  I may have some of those.

Tonight being the eve of New Years we will go out to dinner.  We usually do that about 6:00 and are in bed before the first fireworks start.  I can’t even remember the last time I was awake at the stroke of midnight.  Last year we went to a supposedly nice, high end restaurant and my daughter and a good friend were surprised when they went to the ladies room and found a couple already in there.  It was a man and a woman, who had been at the bar engaged in a grope fest and decided to carry it on in the ladies room.  My daughter let them know that she had been mentally damaged by seeing them doing what they were doing.  We are not going back to that place again.

I probably wont watch much football on TV tomorrow.  I have kinda lost touch with college football.  I did see where the Cotton Bowl had been renamed the “down-town Dallas civic bowl or some such name.  When did they change the word tradition to a 4 letter word.  I never did like the parades but used to watch all the big bowl games.  Alas, time marches on.  Down a dark alley as far as I am concerned.

I dont make resolutions as not sure what I have been doing needs that much tweaking.  I am getting new eyes so I might try to see the world in a different light.  I may try not to be so prejudiced against people who dont see things my way.  However I might warn some folks that may be planning a jihad in my neighborhood that my resolutions dont always come to fruition and I have increased my ammunition supply just in case someone wants to loot a liquor store in the neighborhood.

I hope each of you have a great new year.  I hope that each of you have good health and that your families enjoy the same.  I hope that each of you vote republican the next time you get a chance.  Or democrat if you just have to.

Chuy the resolver