Silvester

Let's be honest, getting married between Christmas and New Year's Eve was not one of my better ideas. It sounded great at the time, but every year when our anniversary comes we are always a little bit broke, tired of parties and gifts and sick of rich food. We always end up just keeping it really simple.

This year for our Anniversary I was sick with a cold. And our gift giving was limited to me giving Ben that cold. I know, I'm very romantic.
(I also made him pancakes, that should count for something.)

What the sore throat meant was we were both fairly sick for New Years Eve (Silvester in Austria), and instead of our usual sushi and a party we ended up recovering on the couch with hot soup.

Luckily, I had picked up some lead fortune tellers at the store so we did have some (low key) celebrations. In German it's called Bleigiessen which means lead pouring.

You start with small lead objects:

Every shape represents something different: love, money, health etc...

A candle is lit and small chunks of lead are melted in a spoon over the candle. You then quickly pour the melted metal quickly into a cup of cold water to harden. Then you tell your fortune based on the shape of the shadow that is cast by the new form of the lead.

Addie thought this was fantastic.

I'm not the best diviner, and couldn't quite make out what was in store... 

Microphones? Ghosts? Tiny waiters? Fertility?

Missy's 2012

What do you think -- What are your predictions for this year?