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A new year,2026!

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I, for one, am glad to see the back of 2025. It probably was the worst year I’ve ever had. The death of a spouse is really awful, and after all the stuff Barclay went through in his first round of cancer( the MDS), it just seems so unfair. But look at all the ones who die young, like Tatiania Kennedy, only 35. Geez, now that seems unfair. Well, life is what it is, no matter how you spin it. As I’ve always said, it is what it is, what it is. 😦

It’s raining again, so I didn’t walk. I might try to put my rain jacket on in a while and go down to the park. As long as it’s not pouring, I can use an umbrella. I guess I’ll wait and see.

I plan on making a pizza tonight, as I made the dough yesterday. We had our fun sub sandwiches and watched some of the new Dr. Who. It’s only fair in MHO. It seems geared towards adolescents. But I’ll watch a few more. I do like the new doctor.

I’m thankful to wake up and feel ready for the day.

I’m thankful our house is warm and dry.

I’m thankful that my daughter has taken on all the tasks B did, and she’s doing an amazing job. ( like getting the wood splitter moved, started, and used to split some of the larger pieces of wood.)

I’m thankful my son stayed home and was not out on the roads for NYE.

I’m thankful for the time that is given to me. That’s all we can do, is decide what to do with the time that is given us. Gandolf the grey.

Simple Sunday

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I took down most of the Christmas stuff and labeled the boxes. Since I did do a Snoopy tree this year, I labeled those ornaments in a box so next year I can pull them out if I decide to do a separate tree. I kept up the Ikea tree but took the bird ornaments off and put them away. I’ll probably take down the Ikea tree tomorrow or at least sometime this week. It always feels good to get a fresh start, although I do love looking at the different trees and their ornaments.

My daughter got me a compact waffle maker to replace the bigger one we have, so we had waffles last night. I might make some more this morning. Yumm.

This was our Christmas morning bagels and lox. I didn’t get a picture of dinner, but everything turned out delicious.

The pool was insane the other day. All the college kids were there. I forgot that this was winter break between semesters. I’ll have to see if I want to brave it next week. I finally got a lane with one of the college kids, and twice I got mouthfuls of water as he was kicking so hard. It wasn’t fun.

A very cold 36 degrees this morning, but the walk was lovely. The park was all frosty.

Today, I’m planning to go to the gym and then home. I might go back out later if my daughter wants to go to Home Depot. We need some things for the house.

This next week is a repeat of Christmas with New Year’s on Thursday. I have Velcade on Friday, which will be a little weird. I usually go on Thursdays. So my Dex day will be Saturday.

Other than that, I’m looking forward to the next year and hope it’s not as awful as 2025. I’ve had no luck getting a camping spot, so it’s been close to 10 days of trying every day. I’m almost at the first week of July, and I never go to Tahoe in July or August unless it’s a day trip. Too many tourists.

New year !

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Here we are in 2016. Its still cloudy and cold in Northern California and we’re due for more rain and snow Monday. Geez, I want to run away to ….the sun …anywhere… As I’ve said we do get cold weather this time of year but it doesn’t go on and on and on.. The poor geese in the park. All the grass is covered in frost when we walk, so we’ve been bringing some wild bird food for them. But we will stop as soon as it warms up as we don’t want them to be too dependent.

Elsewhere, we went to Ikea to get my son a  closet. Very nice but we forgot to check how many boxes it was suppose to be… so ,of course ,there we’re 3 and we came home with 2. So ,off my husband went this morning. It’s a 50 minute drive to west Sacramento. Ugh…. but I got a nice wooden spoon out of it and some wood salad tong things…ok, a few more things so that wasn’t a good no spend day. But tomorrow will be.

This week is my doctor appt and next Velcade shot. I had this last week off so the bruising in the shot areas look better. So far so good.

Next, today I did the Fafsa app for my son. He’s still at the junior college but I do it anyway as he gets the Board of Governors grant. I don’t think the two are related but I did it anyway. It only took forever to finally figure out I needed a new id. So 3 hours later.. I signed and its submitted. I think Zephyr will go not this fall, but 2017.He’d like to go either to San Francisco state or UCLA for film or video something. He’s a great student and seems to know his direction.