once the Christmas Goodies are all gone

I make sure we walk regularly during the Christmas Goodies season- I'm more selective these days - the goodies have to be worth it.

2 to 3 feet of well compacted poo and shavings.
Always colder than a well digger's bottom out but I do work up a sweat.

I tell my GP about it and remind him to cancel the treadmill stress test.
I already passed.
He still makes me get on it.

Happy New Year

My mother did that. Bright & early on December 26, we were packing it all away. I pleaded to keep it up for New Year's Eve, but she said, no, Christmas was over. After that, I made sure to get an invitation to a New Year's event where there were still Christmas decorations. Now, I haven't put up holiday decorations in 30 years.

I am going out of town and will be in the North Georgia Mountains over New Year’s and a few days after that. Lots of party decorations to put up for that. I was just thinking I’d get the ones at home put away before we leave so they are not waiting on me when I get back. I didn’t put up many because it was just my husband and me this year. Gonna see my son and his family in GA. So not too many things to put away. Just more fun putting them up than taking them down. 😂😂😂

Enjoy your family time!

It's Tuesday, right?

No Thursday

work to just plain chill and to try to recharge my batteries. I handle a lot of projects at work and I was in the process of wrapping up my latest group of projects before Christmas and the next round will start hitting my desk as soon as I get back. This time of year is one of the few times that I can actually take two weeks off together. I generally have to work my time off around my projects which are time intensive.

You earned it.

It will be my only one this year.

My three BILs do that on the weekend after thanksgiving.

Probably will try to catch the new Star Wars this afternoon.

A bit of cupboard cleaning as well.

Some early mental planning regarding vacation travel later in the year.

next week Tuesday. Tuesdays are half price

Got good reviews.

my successes and failures and see how I can learn and grow and not make the same mistakes twice.

I also take this time to work with my cards, meditate and delve into my heart needs and spend extra time with my deepest spiritual self.

This process begins after the Solstice and continues throughout the New Year season ending with Chinese New Year in February.
The time before the solstice is devoted to the cleaning and giving away of things that are no longer useful to me, but are to others. Then the big Solstice party to welcome the return of the Sun and knowing the deep dark Winter will end and Spring will come again.

And the Wheel turns again.

I'll be glad when they are all gone.

It tastes great but...

Better late than never.

I also do a good declutter. I have a VVA pick up scheduled for tomorrow and we're working on filling up more boxes for them to take.

Despite our best hopes, of those clothes will never fit us again and lots of stuff in the kitchen has been replaced so there is no need to take up space with stuff we'll never use again.

happy new year!
kp

before they mucked it up with this silly playoff system! I love the old, wide open bowl season. Still, I've managed to catch a few games.

I don't know whether this superstition is still as common in German-speaking countries, but it was when I lived there, both in Germany and in Austria:

Don't leave anything, not even bath or dish towels, hanging out to dry on New Year's Eve and night because if you do, someone in your household will die during the coming year.

I was warned not to leave anything on a line many times when I lived there.

If that were true, our American life expectancy would be even shorter than it is.

As it is, we do not live as long on average as Europeans who live in the countries that have really good single payer health insurance systems (check this on Google if you think I am wrong), but who knows, maybe it isn't our inaccessible, over-priced health care but rather the fact that we leave towels and laundry out to hang on Christmas Eve that causes our excessive and early mortality.

Anyway, I just washed all my towels and many of my sheets yesterday. But I put them in my dryer so no danger that they will hang on the line over New Year's Eve.

Except I haven't cleaned the cupboards, cabinets, closets and drawers in 2 years or more. It's going to feel good but will take longer than usual.

Hope you don't discover new clothes that you haven't worn yet

Diet starts Jan. 2, at which point all remaining holiday goodies get sent to DH's work where his staff will dispatch of them quickly.
I'm an Elvis fan and have a great coffee-table book "Christmas at Graceland". There the decorations stay up through the King's Birthday, Jan. 8, and are taken down the next day. Now tradition at my house too.

We would go whale watching at Point Reyes; we had the place to ourselves.

Last time I went, the park service installed TWO parking lots, and ran a damn shuttle bus up to the lighthouse promontory. It's not pleasant to commune with nature when you are 'assholes to elbows' with people.

Times Have Been Better.