In addition to Martin Luther King Day, today is Hot Buttered Rum Day.

Hmm, which do you think Mistress Heidi wants to celebrate most?

On the one hand, MLK Day is a national holiday, which means a day off work.  (For most people; stay-at-home writers have no concept of holidays, really, nationally observed or otherwise.)

On the other, sitting down with a nice Hot Buttered Rum (or six) sounds infinitely more enjoyable.

Yes, let’s go with celebrating Hot Buttered Rum Day!

Here is a recipe anyone can pull off (even me!) as long as you’ve got yourself a little Captain Morgan handy.

Hot Buttered Rum

Ingredients:

sugar

spices (such as cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice…)

orange zest (optional)

2 oz. dark or spiced rum

water or apple cider

salted butter

Directions:

Sprinkle a little sugar, the spices of your choice, & orange zest (if preferred) into mug.

Add rum.

Fill mug with hot water, or warm apple cider, if you prefer.

Top off warm brew with pat of salted butter. Let butter melt before stirring it all together.

Enjoy!

As a funny aside, I have to tell you that Madame Mommy Dearest is actually the one who brought this great holiday to my attention.  Then she asked me to make her one.  Only she didn’t want the butter on top.  To which I replied, “Without the butter, it’s really just hot rum, & you don’t need me for that.” *snork*

We interrupt our regular Happy Sunday schedule to bring you National Nothing Day.

I’m not really sure what that means, exactly, but let’s celebrate, anyway.  Let’s challenge ourselves to do nothing, say nothing, think nothing…wear nothing. :winkwink

Do you think you can do it?  Do you think you can keep from calling anyone or arguing with anyone or doing anything of substance today?  Do you think you can go silent on Twitter & Facebook & blogs (all except this one, of course :gotcha )?

I’m not even sure I can do that, to be perfectly honest.  But I’m going to try.

And so I shall shut up now & leave you with this bit of “Nothing” to tide you over until we can go back to “something”:

And now to announce our most recent Free Book Friday winner:

:dancing Pamela!!! :dancing

Congratulations, Pamela! Please contact me with your full name & mailing address, & I will get your book out to you as soon as I can.

I went to the gym this week in an attempt to keep up with my New Year’s resolution of getting into shape. And this is what was there to greet me: