by Judy Handley | Jan 2, 2024 | 2034 Life Logs |
2024 Life Logs, Day 02: Making a List and Checking It Twice
Date: Tuesday, January 2,2024
Weather: Sunny, but Cold; High Temp 37, Low 28 F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth MA
I am writing this log as an email and will have to copy and paste it into the website as I am having difficulties with Microsoft Word. Somehow all of my files are locked and If I try to open them, my computer freezes and I can do nothing. I can get out of that with Ctrl Alt Delete, but I can’t open a new file. Hopefully, a Goldstone will know what to do to fix this problem. But in the meantime, I can at least write in email. Now on with my day,
I don’t have a written list, but I have a mental list of things to do that is a mile long. It was so sunny this morning that it was hard to keep my focus on getting things done indoors, but I persevered and checked quite a few items off my list. Everything I do takes twice as long as it should due to my back issues, but I’m okay with that as long as I really can get things done. It was hard to focus on work this morning because the sun was shining so brightly through the windows and skylights. I did get to go outside to pick the kale for my breakfast smoothie that I finally consumed at noon. Like I said, I move slowly, but surely. I loved going ou to the garden to pick the kale in January and it made a great smoothie.
Late afternoon I changed my focus. I was taking artichokes to Heather and Jed’s for dinner. We were eating early as it is Scout meeting night, so I said I would arrive with the artichokes by 5 pm and I did. The artichokes were big and delicious and we had sides of fried calamari and fried clam strips. It was a good day as I checked off many things off my list and had fun doing it. It was a gpod, productive day.
by Judy Handley | Dec 31, 2023 | 2023 Life Logs, 2024 Life Logs, 2034 Life Logs |
2023 Life Logs, Day 365: Happy New Year
Date: Sunday, December 31, 2023
Weather: Partly Sunny; High 39, Low 31 F
Location: At Home on Lakeview in Falmouth, MA
Happy New Year! I spent my day shopping and getting ready for New Year’s Day. Heather and gang will be home tomorrow evening and I offered to fix dinner. I had hoped we could have sushi, but our sushi source is closed tomorrow night. So I have artichokes or beef stew as the offering. The beef is marinating in wine and the artichokes are in the pantry. I’ll wait to see what the Goldpebbles vote for.
On New Years Eve I get a bottle of Pouilly-Fuisse to have with Mark. When I first met him, but was still deciding if I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him, I drove to Bloomington, Indiana to spend a weekend with him. I had only met him at a public television conference, so this would be our first meeting after that. He lived in a hard to find spot, so he met me at a designated place. He arrived in his little green sports car convertible and when we got to his house, he broke out a bottle of Pouilly-Fuisse wine. I was already in love, but this sealed the deal. So Pouilly-Fuisse became our signature wine and now that I don’t have Mark, I have a toast to him every New Year with this wine. Tonight, Shadow and I sat together while I made my toast.
I made a toast with a hope for peace in the world. But more realistic hopes were that we can all stay grounded during coming year which could be quite challenging on the home front, as well as in the world aboard.
Tonight Heather, Jed, and the Goldpebbles are in Vermont celebrating with good friends after a day on the slopes.
Justin, Jo, Ziggy, and Coco celebrated
and then head down to Rincon for their New Year’s Silver Mouse concert. Shadow and I are here at home celebrating the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024. Here on the home front, and in the world abroad, 2024 looks to be a most challenging year. But we must all plunge into 2024 with an optimistic view, hoping for the best. Here we go.
