Life: It Goes On - December 29

Happy last Sunday of 2024! It's going to be a beautiful one here - almost 50 degrees and sunny so one of my goals for the day is to get in some outside time today before winter finally arrives this week.  

How was your Christmas? Ours was...not what we'd had planned. I brought a bug home that had me wanting to sleep most of last weekend (I couldn't, of course, because I'm a woman and I had to get all of the things done before Christmas), then Big Guy got it and Mini-him caught another bug that might have been Covid (he didn't test positive but lost his sense of taste so we erred on the side of caution) so they didn't come over. I packed up their gifts and a load of food and delivered it to them so we were able to FaceTime them later (along with our Alaskans) so we got to watch everyone open their gifts. Thank heavens for technology!

Last Week I: 

Listened To: Not a lot, but I did finish Meg Mason's Sorrow and Bliss. 

Watched: Red One, the newer Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life and the annual viewing of Elf with Miss H. Also football, because our Huskers were in a bowl game at long last. 

Read: I finished A Rosie Life in Italy and now I'm back to Karen Russell's The Antidote, which I'm hoping to finish in the next couple of days so I can start the new year with a new book. Going to try to pick something that will inspire me to get back to more reading in 2025. 

Made: Ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppermint ice cream. And I spent a chunk of Christmas Day helping Miss H meal prep for the coming week since she was working five doubles in a row when she went back to KC. 

Enjoyed: Some time with my dad on Christmas, taking him gifts and some of his favorite foods. Also, went to dinner Friday night with Mini-him, Miss C and her parents to one of my fave places. 

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This Week I’m:  

Planning: On working on my journals this week - closing out the 2024 edition and getting the 2025 edition ready to go. 

Thinking About: Christmas is coming down this week and tough decisions will be made. I just have too much and it's so much work. Once it was up this year, I just kept looking at it thinking of how much work it was going to be to take it all down again. 

Feeling: Frustrated - back pain has me hobbled again. Back to my PT exercises. 

Looking forward to: Another low key New Year's Eve celebration with friends and more time off of work this week. 

Question of the week: How do you usher in a new year?