Happy New Year!!!
I got home late last night and spent some QT at my mom’s eating her comida. I missed tamales on Christmas so you know that was the first thing I grabbed when I got there.
Run. I started my day with a 12 mile run. Last year I did 13 for 2013 and I wanted to do 14 in my head, but I had a high mileage week and my body was not digging it. So, I ran my other new goal for the year – switching Tensday to Twelvesday once a week.
Eat. I ate breakfast while going through the biggest pile of mail. A lot of Christmas cards, made me 
The rest of the day was very un-fancy – unpacking and washing clothes. I found this necklace as I was unpacking and realized I never wore it in Florida, so I put it on with my fab sweatshirt.
Now I’m cooking up a feast featuring black-eye peas for dinner. I read that they are good luck for the New Year. Plus, I really like beans and they’d make a great side dish with salmon.
But, I was trying to be lazy and wanted the easiest version so I got a bag of frozen peas. Well, you still have to boil these for 40 minutes so there goes plan A aka microwave.
It would have been even easier to just play some Black Eyed Peas. Next time.
Question: Black-Eyed Peas the food or the group? Vote!
the food!!
i like both versions of BEP!
My mom’s from the south, and I’ve had black eyed peas and collard greens for New Year’s ever since I was little! Black eyed peas are for luck, and collard greens are for $$ 🙂
But I must say, Christmas tamales are a lot tastier…
I have never had the food group but now I kinda want to try them! I love the group!
I ate black eyed peas too – roasted – happy new year!
Black Eyed Peas – The Group! Hands down! They have been my favorite musical group for years and happen to be featured on every single half marathon playlist. And by featured, I mean every other song.
I’ve never tried black eyed peas, so probably the group.
The Group…I dont like my food looking back at me 🙂
no thank you to the food! The group is ‘okay’. We do pork and sauerkraut for new years in my neck of the woods! (Central PA)
Black eyed peas the food for sure! I make mine in the crock pot with bacon.
Can’t say I’ve ever intentionally eaten black-eyed peas nor listened to the band. So I have to choose ice cream 🙂
I was gone for over a week and then got home quite late the next few nights. Yesterday I tried to get everything done in an evening (after a long bike ride and even longer “lunch” with friends) that I normally get done in a weekend. Back to work again today, and I’m hoping to find time this weekend to finish everything from the last two weekends and this weekend!
I just had a huge AHA moment when reading this post. I saw you wore your garmin over top of your long sleeve shirt. For some reason this never occured to me and I find myself fighting with my sleeves to check it during my run. As always, you provide inspiration for me!
Now I’ll have my humps in my head all day! Hahahah!!!
I love black eyed peas but somehow only think to eat them on NYE. And other than My Humps and Lie I am not a huge BEP fan.
I LOVE black eye peas! They are especially good with a little garlic and kale mixed in.
The group is my guilty pleasure, 100%, so they get my vote. I’ve never tried the food!
Never tried black eye peas though they look similar to one of the beans my mom makes sometimes – gotta ask her about it. Ok, so my pick will hafta be the group.
I have to vote for Fergie on this one….maybe one day ill venture out of my comfort zone and try some different foods. Then again I kinda like my comfort zone. Its…comfortable.
I dont cook so I think it’s time to Pump It (get it?? hahaha)
I have never eaten black eyed peas before. I dont think that I want to actually. So I vote for the band! 🙂
I always eat black eyed peas on New Year’s Day! We mix little slivers of bacon and onions in it – soooo good!
I like both! Though I haven’t eaten them in a really long time! 🙂
My husband and I just got back from a long vacation, so we’ve been unpacking and reading mail, too! That stuff piles up.
Twelvesday is hardcore! That’s awesome!
Glad you had a great New Years and you made it safely back home! 🙂