Happy New Year's

This won't be a long post.  There are just hours left in 2022.  This has been a hard year.  So many losses & hardships.  I've read about people who shaped the world & impacted my life dying almost every week. We've lost our older cat.  It's been a rough time.  I won't miss this year & I'm tired of feeling that way.  It'd be nice to have more years I'm fond & get nostalgic about when I think of them.

My ask for this year, is for it to be a year I can look back on smile at what came our way.   I don't want to have to bear a holy symbol & try to rebuke the undead beast away.

Take care & Happy New Year's.   May we all find comfort, peace & joy.

Cya...

Ending's Eve...

 

2022 plans on ending as difficult as it started.  Less than 2 weeks ago we were setting comfortably in the 50s.  Then in about 36 hours it dropped to almost 0°.  Yesterday we were in the low 70s.  In about 10 days there was a 50° drop then a 70° hike.  That's 120° swing.  Add to that, juniper pollen is hitting medium to medium high levels & then the nonstop wind.  It's not been pleasant shift.   We don't need the heaters, but my body feels like we've been on a bad carnival ride.

Oh well, at least we're not freezing.  Take care. Happy Holidays.

Cya...

Lasts...

 

This has been a week of lasts.  This is the last Thursday of 2022.   There's only a Friday & Saturday left & then no more 2022.  Part of me is relieved this year will be over.  Still, I'm angry that there was so little good in the last 360+ days.  This last year, so far for this decade, things have been in a bad place.  Hoping won't change that.  Thoughts & prayers won't change that.  Only serious cooperative work will change that.  I'm not sure there are enough people willing to work with other for a better year ahead.  It'd be nice.  Are we past civility?  Did we use it all up along with being gracious, charitable & kind? 

Cya...

Countdown...

 

There are only 3 more days after today.  Then 2022 will be nothing more than a memory.  We don't have many plans for those days except for getting through them.  We're also picking out some different stuff to eat for New Year's that we don't usually get.  

What do I want out of 2023?  That's easy, I'd like less drama, less crisis, less stress.  If we could get those things then we could relax, feel safer & maybe find a bit more joy in our lives.  Hopefully, what I want won't be too big an ask.

I hope the rest of the year brings some joy.  Take care.

Cya...

An Error & 7 Days...

 

So far the van is working.  Here's hoping that's a thing that continues.  Yesterday wasn't easy on us, the weather & darkness is taking its toll.  I made an error last night when I decided to only leave 1 stove on overnight.  It got colder in the house than I expected.  Still trying to warm it back up a bit. 

Today marks a week since I last held Tinkerbell.  We talked to her a lot on her last day.  She wanted to held & comforted.  She could feel us, hear us & see us.  She was taking in her last moments with us.  I'm glad she went as peacefully as did, but I hate she had to go.  She is very missed.  The house is off without her.  Even the little cat who was an ass to Tink is weirded out without her.  I hope her journeys are glorious & loving.  There would've never been a good point or enough time with her, for her passing to have been easier on us.  She was & still is loved.  I guess she thought 10 years was long enough & went to meet Mother Alice passed 10 years go tomorrow.

Cya...

PS - I'm over sad Winter moments & anniversaries.

A Bit Warmer...

 

The cold has been getting to me.  I don't feel well & my mood is more off than normal.  I really can't handle the cold & dark of Winter.  This season gets to me physically, emotionally & spiritually.  It's just cold shadows of nostalgia for things lost.  Sometimes for things that never were.   

Nothing comes easy for me this time of the year.  So far, neither of us have come down with our typical holiday sickness.  Maybe we can avoid it this year.  The last week of the year is a hard time for me.  It's when I have face it that the holidays have left me feeling flat once again.  2022 brought precious little good, but truckloads of awful & horrendous.  I'm very tired.  It'd been really nice for 2023 to be decent, but I doubt it will be.  There wasn't much in the way of holiday magic & I'm out hands to help miracles along.

That's all for now.  May this year wind down peacefully for everyone.  Take care.

Cya...

Happy Holiday...

 

It's here & almost over.  This time of the year never lives up to the hype we've built for it.  Each year there seems to be less of the holiday season.  I only heard Christmas music in the stores a few times & mainly the last time I went shopping.  For better or worse, this season has changed in many ways & it's never going to be what many of us remember again.  I want to say that's sad, but maybe for some people it isn't. 

There only 6 days left in the year.  I normally try to have hopes for the new year, but I just don't see anything making that even remotely possible this time.  I just hope it doesn't get any worse.  2022 was just a rough year on this house.  We need a serious respite. 

That's all for now, may your day be bright & joyous. 

Cya..