Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, Y'all!

I hope y'all had a wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, or if you celebrate none of these, then I hope your lonely non-holiday was less bleak than your normal everyday life.

I can hardly believe that 2008 is here! I just love making resolutions for the New Year, even though most of them don't last until January 3rd. There's something about a new year...it's like having new sheets on your bed. All the crumbs and mystery stains are gone, and you have a fresh new year to roll in.

Now, time has taught me to be realistic when it comes to making resolutions, so there's less of a chance of breaking them. So as we hang 2007 out to dry, I'd like to share with you my resolutions for 2008:

1. To be kind to everyone, including that hell-on-wheels woman I have to work for. If I have to bite my tongue until it bleeds, I will smile pleasantly when she asks me to fetch her a third cup of coffee, compliment her hairdo or scrape the rough spots on her feet.
2. To have my eyebrows waxed on a regular basis. Life is too short to look like you have wooly caterpillars on your face. Am I right, ladies?
3. To meet my idol, Paula Deen. Y'all, she is the most wonderful person and I would just die to meet her. I would like to share my recipe for Cole Slaw Casserole with her and see what she thinks. Lawd! Can you imagine Paula takin' a big ol' bite of my casserole! I would just die and go to Heaven right on the spot.
4. To exercise everyday. Now, I know that's a resolution EVERYONE makes this time of year. In the past, I'd say my resolution was to lose 30 or 40 pounds, but y'all...who am I kiddin'? I'm no more likely to lose 30 or 40 pounds than I am to grow a tail. So, I decided I COULD make a resolution to get some exercise. Even if it may be sharpening pencils, doing can-can high kicks or what I like to call hop-n-squats, everything is exercise, honey!
5. To stop nagging my husband, Roy. Y'all, it's not everyone that gets to marry their high school sweetheart, so I resolve to smile sweetly and say "I love you" every time he burps, farts or forgets to clean up from some of his taxidermy experiments.

Whatever your resolutions are for 2008, I hope that it's your best year yet, y'all! Now remember, life is too short for not taking the time to square dance every day!

The Holidays At My House

Y'all, we had such a fun Christmas at my house. I was lucky enough to get time off from work, which doesn't happen very often because little old Marjean has not one but TWO managers to keep happy. One is just is just as sweet as he can be, but the other one is this woman who just drives me slap loopy. But that's another blog for another day, dear ones...so let's talk about Christmas.

We began Christmas Eve like we always do...by attending the Live Nativity up at the Penecostal Church off Hog Mountain Road. Those people always do such a nice job with their Live Nativity that our church doesn't even bother anymore. Well, the stampede incident with the donkeys and our church organist may have also had something to do with it.

This year the Pentecostal Church even had a real live baby playing the Baby Jesus! Everyone in our pickup truck just howled with laughter as the naked toddler tried to climb out of the manger as we drove by honking the horn. Come to think of it, he may have actually been a dwarf or a midget or something, because boy, he sure could run.

After the Live Nativity, we all went back to our house where, as usual, the women and children decorated Christmas cookies while the menfolk went out back and shot at beer cans, telling the children they were shooting at Santa Claus and his reindeer. After we calmed down the children, Grandma Spratlin put in her good teeth and read the children "T'was The Night Before Christmas" and we put them all down to bed. I'd like to say it was sugar plums dancing in their heads, but little Leroy got a severe case of the runs from eating too much raw cookie dough and we had to change the sheets and get them all settled down before Santa could come visit!

On Christmas day, we all went over to MeMaw Jenkins' house, where we had our traditional Christmas dinner of pork chops and macaroni and cheese. I brought my signature dish, Coleslaw Casserole, and it was the usual hit. Then, we gathered in the backyard where we exchanged presents. My husband Roy got me matching appliance covers for my kitchen, and a quart of my favorite body splash! He is such a sweetheart.

I hope your holidays were more fun than a pig in a poke...drop me a line and tell me what y'all did!

Welcome to Marjean's Minutes!

Y'all, I am just plum tickled to be on the World Wide Web! I have made so many friends online and in real life, that I felt like this would be just a fun way to keep everyone aware of my doin's.

As y'all know, I am quite a talker, so my husband Roy told me that I should put some stuff on the computer so I stay off the phone. Won't he be surprised to find that he can Google little old me now along with that other stuff he looks up on the internet that I don't really care to discuss right now. But like my mama always said, "You play with fire, you'll burn your britches."