Happy 2015!

Happy 2015 all!

Shouldn't we be in space suits and such by now?

We spent a low key evening at the homestead as we do most New Years Eve with the exception of ringing in 2012 in Chicago which is easily the best NYE of my life.  We got take out from a steak house and got our season 5 and 6 Wonder Years on.

I must say, while the Mr and I loved the show, we both kind of abandoned it halfway through the series when it was originally on.  We were teens making wonder years of our own.  I do remember that we made a point to watch the series finale when we were in our early dating.  It was sad.  As we watched this all in a row over the past week, we think that binge watching can be a bad idea.  I don't remember Kevin being a flaming a-hole, Winnie being such a whining, indecisive, gal who took on the weight of her brother's death by leading a lot of dudes on and in a constant state of squint.  Then Paul wasn't exactly the most supportive of friends even if he was Kevin's emotional punching bag. I must say should you ever get the box set, don't binge watch it.  Because by season 5, you will begin ripping it apart and hope that Kevin and Winnie break up for good because watching them together trying to navigate things was painful and irritating.

We did notice one major improvement was season 1 was only six episodes long but Jack (the dad) was seriously borderline emotionally abusive.  His family would cower when he came home and all he did was yell.  Thankfully from season two on, they softened him quite a bit and then went more to normal grunting and griping about work instead of his family being afraid to talk to him.  His relationship and closeness with Norma came through in more episodes than I remember and I love seeing them all lovey dovey on each other.  Wayne is just as I remember and I wasn't surprised when reading Jason Hervey's IMDB profile that some dude came up to him in a bar and said he had a brother just like Wayne and punched him out.  Therapy alert!  The Mr and I watched it so much that we both had dreams where Daniel Stern narrated them.

We were surprised to see all of the people who later went on to become stars in their own right.  There were more than that but those are just some of them.  Kind of neat to see who popped up in each episode.  (Like Lance Guest from The Last Starfighter!)

Now that I've given you my Wonder Years thesis...

We did manage to get in a little ball drop action.  Let me clarify, televised ball drop action at midnight.  We always watch the CNN program so we can listen to Kathy Griffin make Anderson Cooper giggle like a school girl.  If we were drinkers and drank every time Anderson giggled like a tween, we'd be drunk by 11pm.  While I do enjoy it, it made me long for the old days when Dick Clark was alive, there weren't so many live performers, commercials and hats for the crowd weren't sponsored like a big ad.  But then again, all of Times Square is nothing but an ad so I guess it fits.

Today I've got a pork roast in the crock pot for some Hawaiian Kalua pork and later BBQ sandwiches for some bowl game.  I remember when I was a kid and we used to go my grandma's for pork roast on New Years Day and watch  bowl games all day long.  I think by the time I was a teen and other grandkids came along we realized that it was a little too much family togetherness in a 10 day span so the tradition went by the wayside.  I'm bringing it back in some small form since they can't do it anymore.  This is only our second year doing it but a tradition has to start somewhere, right?

Wishing you all a very happy new year and remember as we all face our successes and challenges to find something to be grateful for each day.

Love to y'all!

Did you do what you had planned last night?  Get any ball drop action of your own?  Any plans or traditions to bring in the new year?

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