New Year's Eve and Cold Toes

2013 is almost done (of course some parts of the world have already moved on).  Here, anyway, it has two hours (give or take) to go.  Jenna volunteered for a 9:00 bedtime (!) since tomorrow is potentially going to be a busy day with guests coming for the football game.  I should do some cleaning now so it doesn't need to be done in the morning...but that would be productivity and my subconscious is in Friday mode and seems to think my body can be lazy.  I'm not doing a very good job fighting that.  And I'm pretty sure I have ice cubes for toes which surely would make walking around the house difficult.  Samson is following me everywhere I go because of the pops and bangs of fireworks nearby.  (Why are there fireworks going off at 10-something o'clock?  Doesn't 2014 start at midnight?)  It makes him nervous so he stays close to his mommy.  Lots of "good boy, Samson" and reassuring pats.

I should put on some slippers, eat a dairy and nitrate-free sugar cookie (thanks, Cookie Fairy!), put away my hymnal collection, and maybe find an appropriate libation for ringing in 2014.  And 2014 is looking to be a very, very...um...different year.  2014...Hard to wrap my mind around the fact it will be here in less than two hours.  What happened to 2013?!