Hmmm.....
Pound cake and lasagna sound really good right now. And prime rib is something I could rpobably do without for a few weeks now.
Kitter - it sounds like you folks went nuts with stuff this year. You got almost all your corners covered with the stuff given and received. I guess I'm sort of lucky we were on the road as usual for the holidays as this precludes giving or receiving anything much larger than a shoe box or two in volume or weight. Although in years past we gave gift cards with a photo of the "bulky" gift left back home. So.... just moments ago we opened the "bulky" Christmas gifts we left behind - mostly "Santa marked gifts" as we try to make the experience on the road our holiday thing for the kids sake.
So - as the New Years' looms large

we tend to be "sticks in the mud" types now-a-days. <hmm - I think my grammer is off kilter there... pardon my sloppy diction> We have friends who still run out and do things on the slightly "wild side" in LA (like we used to). In our current state we tend to watch the midnite ball drop only one in 3 or 4 years now (live). I find myself waxing with whimsy when we wake in the new year having done little to ring it in. Having LA close by we used to go in for some wacky events when we were ... younger. Hmmmm,......
Anyways.... this year we have to tend to the kids and we'll probably have the same comments circulating like... "good thing we're not on the road with all the crazy drunk drivers and patrolling CHP (California Highway Patrol) officers running maximum enforcement on the freeways..." .... or we might muse over the silly expense imposed by the Vegas and Times square crowd - the former we've done/and the latter have not.
Heck, now that I'm thinking about it

- we used to even camp over-nite to see the Rose Parade - and that was fun and surprisingly memorable - but now we barely wake in time to see the parade being rerun on KTLA (channel 5 - they rerun it every year)! But that actually might be something to try this year... hmmm, maybe right after I draft and edit this I'll look into remaining ticket availability since it seems barely sane enough for us to try. Even thought I sense my slightly conservative spouse is likely to say she would prefer to watch it from the comfprt and warmth of home. YEAH - yeah - YEAH.... you're musing by muted breath... warmth of HOME in California? I know it is a bit more chilly in other parts of the nation - but we just just came in from Hawaii and she sort of has a tropical vein in her even though she grew up in a one signal light town in PA. Seriously, she spent many summers in Hawaii as a child while living the rest of the year in PA. So she sort of had the best of both worlds. Me - I'm a California boy who never left (yet) for more than 3 weeks or so at a time.
OK... time to go get some vittles. Probably next to nothing in the fridge since we were gone a few days. Probably have to cut a can or crack the freezer for something ta eat.

Hmmm.... maybe I can boil water for pasta if we have sauce laying around somewhere. I have turkey meatballs in the fridge from Trader Joes, and it's only 11:54 now... 20 minutes for a big pot of pasta sounds nice right now!
TTFN!