Twanging In The New Year

I've done cool things. I've hung out with cool people. In fact, I hang out with cool people pretty regularly. Tonight, though, I did something decidedly uncool. Uncool, but so fun! Mr. M and I went to a local pizza parlor-the kind with long tables and benches and peanuts on the floor. We met a few friends for dinner and a live bluegrass band. Four older gentlemen were on the dirty stage: a fiddle, a guitar, an upright bass, and a banjo. We were all laughs and smiles. It reminded me of all the hokey and cheesy and old-fashioned kind of fun I had growing up in a small church. I loved that hokey fun then, and I love it now. I don't care if my friends are cool or uncool, and I don't care if our entertainment is cool or uncool, I just like having a good time with people I love. I've heard it said that what you do on the first day of a new year sets the tone for the whole year. If that is true, this will be a good year.