I’ve never really enjoyed New Year’s Eve parties, I’m not sure why. So last night, I was very happy to enjoy a quiet celebration at home, with a delicious meal cooked by my husband (Menu: Bacon wrapped asparagus, sweet potato tempura, and sliced chicken thighs, celery, carrot, and green beans cooked in soy sauce and mirin served over somen noodles in a chicken stock broth with spinach, topped with sliced green onion) and a little anime. Here’s hoping we’ve started the new year off right!
2008 was an amazing year for me here at There It Is, Plain As Daylight. I met a lot of incredible people, read a lot of great manga, and got invited to join the reviewing staff over at Manga Recon! My bookshelves are overflowing, and my blogroll has exploded to the point where I’ve had to turn to Google Reader to keep up. I hope to spend 2009 enjoying all of your blogs, attending more cons, reading more manga than ever, improving my writing, and plugging slowly away at my own comic!
One announcement I’d like to make for the new year, is that I recently invited my good friend Deanna Gauthier to come on board as a regular guest blogger! Deanna shares with me a deep love and enthusiasm for manga, and I’m thrilled that she has agreed to talk about it here! Please join me in welcoming her to my little blog!
Thank you all for being a part of my life in 2008! Here’s to a great 2009 for all of us!
jun says
January 1, 2009 at 10:42 amWelcome, Deanna!
Also, I adore asparagus and I adore bacon, but I don’t know that I’ve ever had them together. We are not fancy cooks ’round these parts. :)
Melinda Beasi says
January 1, 2009 at 12:33 pmI’m pretty sure he got the idea from Chiyo-chan in Azumanga Daioh. It was incredibly delicious! I’m not a huge bacon fan, but something about the asparagus tempered its flavor just so, and I loved it! He’s a very fancy cook. :)
jansong@livejournal.com says
January 1, 2009 at 11:34 amWhat a beautiful morning post. I’ve been trying to work on one in my head as I’ve been doing some major dust eradication (as if one ever succeeds at that.) It does warm me up when the furnace can’t keep up on this cold day. Thanks for sharing your New Year’s Eve details. And I add a welcome to Deanna on your blog.
Melinda Beasi says
January 1, 2009 at 12:34 pmIt is extremely cold today! I don’t know how Lucy can stand it, but she keeps wanting to go outside! Keep warm, mommy!
*love*
jansong@livejournal says
January 1, 2009 at 12:53 pmSilly dog. But sweet.
Melinda Beasi says
January 1, 2009 at 1:15 pmShe is a very, very sweet dog. :)
Ed Sizemore says
January 2, 2009 at 8:29 amWelcome aboard to Deanna.
My desk would, and does, say I’m slob that never picks up after himself. Currently, I’m using it for storage. I have my computer on a seperate desk. I keep all my manga in the bookshelves in my bedroom, so looking at my desk you won’t even know I read the stuff. Looking at your desk, and listening to my desk, is making me feel very guilty.
Melinda Beasi says
January 2, 2009 at 8:51 amOur house is really small, so we’re sort of forced into keeping our desks usable, or our computers would have no place to be! It’s just necessity, really. :D And I have the manga near my desk for pretty much the same reason. Heh.