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Happy New Year! I'm hoping this will be a great year.

Last night the family had a fondue and frying party. We had two kinds of cheese fondue and some chocolate fondue. The two cheese ones were Swiss and pimento cheese. We dipped fruit and angel food cake in the chocolate one. The cheese one we used for crackers and other stuff like chips. We fried quite a few things in oil, it was fun. Some examples are tempura (broccoli dipped in batter and then fried), pigs in a blanket which are little wieners wrapped in dough and then fried, cheese cubes wrapped in dough and then fried, we fried raw meat, fruit, and I even dipped a piece of banana in batter and fried it.

We had veggies like snap peas, cherry tomatoes and broccoli, fruit like pineapple, apples, oranges and bananas. There was chips, crackers, avocado dip, olive dip, mustard and ketchup for some of the fried things. We had Apple juice and Martinellis sparkling juice for the drinks. I actually got some pictures and a video.

The weather over the past few days has been bitter cold and windy. The snow came down hard and stuck. It's been in the single digits at night and the family and I have been more than happy to stay inside. The wind actually blew our shutters off of our house, I didn't even know we had any. Thankfully no windows were broken and we didn't lose any roofing this time.

We took down our tree and Linda and Justin have been packing their things and are going to go home with Jax and Violet soon. It has been fun even though we all got sick during the holidays. Jax definitely got it the worst. He wasn't over everything until yesterday. He was vomiting for 4 days and in pain for another because of acid reflux and other problems. He wasn't keeping fluids down. I'm glad he is okay and everyone is through that stuff including me.

I've been watching Zeldathon, for the past six days I've been watching people play all the Legend of Zelda games on the funforfreedom twitch.tv channel. They are doing it for charity. I donated $5 and got to have my comments read aloud over the air. The whole thing is crazy and fun and a lot of stuff happens on it. They dance, sing, dress up, they have a wheel they spin and they do different things like foam sword fighting, funny chants, girls slapping boys, duct tape leg waxing, hair shaving, and so much more. I can't even explain how many things go on. There are a lot of people involved and it happens every six months. They go all night and all day non stop. This time I think it is 9 days, it's so amazing. One of my favorite YouTubers SuperMCgamer arranges all of it. Zeldathon has been happening for 5 years. If you see this post before the 3rd you should make a stop to either Zeldathon.net or twitch.tv/funforfreedom and check it out.

Anyway, the family has been just playing Pandemic again and yesterday they were playing banana grams. I haven't been playing because I've been doing my own thing, but we've all had fun over the holidays. It looks like the winter storm is going to clear up and the snow might even melt soon. It really does feel like a new year and I'm excited to find out what it has in store for me. I don't have school again until May, so it'll be interesting to see what I do with my time.

I think this is good enough for now.