Life After Windbird, Day 116: Time Out to Focus on Christmas
Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Weather: Sunny and Chilly; High Temp 42, Low 36 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Studio, Falmouth, MA
I leave here for Nashville day after tomorrow and won’t be home until Saturday, Dec 17th. That is too late to order anything to be sent to Puerto Rico, so I took a time out from other activities today to focus on Christmas. With suggestions from Justin and Jo, I was able to order gifts for Jo and for Coco. I’m still working on Ziggy and Justin, but I made progress. The Goldstones are another issue. I have ordered Heather’s Christmas present and I have an idea for Jonah. But I still need to figure out Jed, Sam, and Ollie. Since I do most of my shopping on Amazon, I can continue this process when I get to Nashville. I certainly don’t want to spend most of my time there dealing with Christmas shopping, but at least I know I can complete the process once I am there if I don’t get it done before leaving on Thursday.
I started my day with a trip to the chiropractor. This was another routine check-in, but today I was released. No more check-ins–just call if I have a problem. So that was good news. When I got home, I continued working on organizing the presentation about our trip around the world that I will make to the Newcomers Club in January and then I ran some mundane errands and did a little local shopping to round out Coco’s Christmas and to buy a few items I need for my trip to Nashville. The low-carb diet I have been on is starting to kick in. I have lost a few pounds and needed a belt to hold my pants up! And I needed socks. So, nothing elaborate, but it takes time to go from store to store to find what you need.
Tomorrow morning I’ll do a little packing and then in the afternoon I’ll head to Heather and Jed’s. I’ll pick Sam and Jonah up from school and then stay for dinner. Thursday is Jed’s birthday, so tomorrow will be my chance to wish him a happy 45th!
