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Jones-ing

on new year's eve day i ended up at the rivers house hanging out with bao, samshrew and dad. morm was mia, only we were pretty sure we knew where she was, so does that mean she was really mia?

i had made these marble swirl cookies from the big fat cookie book, only something went wrong and they ended up being big thin cookie pancakes. i'm not sure what happened - i think the oven wasn't hot enough.

we hung out for a while (morm & dad are hit a unfixable rough spot, so us siblings headed over for support) and then went up to the levee area (which the river is RIDICULOUS FULL right now. you can see it from the street, and normally it's a jillion feet below street level. good thing the levee's shorter on the other side, otherwise i'd really worry about the rivers house being in flood area) for a view of old town's firework display. they do them at 9pm (and midnight) on new year's eve. after the fireworks we headed back to the house to go our separate ways.

before we left bao busted out his box of holiday jones soda. i got it for him for his birthday, i thought it was a funny har har joke. apparently it's the diet soda version, but i didn't know that, i didn't realize there were two versions. this one contained smoked salmon pate, broccoli casserole, corn on the cob, turkey & gravy and pecan pie.

MY GOD IT WAS HORRID.
anything flavored "smoked salmon pate" that is not actually smoked salmon pate should be avoided. especially if it's carbonated and sugar-free. the worst part was actually the smell. we drank out cups instead of the bottles and that means your nose is near the liquid the entire drinking time.

salmon - the worst - too smokey and the smell was awful - like drinking smoked cat food
broccoli - it tasted and looked like fishtank water
corn on the cob - the nicest of the bunch with an artificially sweetened candy corn
pecan pie - very chemically but at least bareable like super sweet sugar free watered down cream soda
turkey and gravy - foul and i'm not even trying to make bad puns

after the tasting i headed home to ring in the new year's with randall. we didn't have any plans, we thought we'd end up somewhere, but the weather and the traffic (couldn't go to the city or the snow due to flooding and mudslides) just made us want to stay in. around 10:15 we called up wes & juju to see what they were doing. they didn't have any plans either (seems a lot of people i talked to said the same) so we decided we'd go to mel's with them sometime after midnight (it's their tradition), but 15 minutes later they called back and said why don't we go now. so we went to mel's and rang in the new year with them there.

Posted by pocketpig at January 3, 2006 03:00 PM

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