Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Nearly ready, and already tired... travel is not as much fun as it used to be! It's great that I don't have to lug my own luggage: Charlie will see me off at the airport, and wrangle the two bags for checking. My carry-on is going to be heavy, too, as this machine will be in it. I can no longer walk the length of even our small airport, what with lower back and hip issues, but somehow that box didn't get ticked when I paid for my ride, the one that says 'special assistance needed.' So that will... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, January 9, 2023
Ready, set...
Still packing, still sorting out the house for this weekend when Eunice comes down from her mountains to hang out with Pixiechops. The guest room needed significant sorting: the bed under the window was too cold even with it closed tight. So the bed is now against a wall--which required clearing that wall of a lot of photo stuff and other miscellany. And the wall now behind the head of the bed had to have photos re-hung as it would not be able to happen easily after the bed was in place. So the... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, January 6, 2023
New movie: AVATAR: The Way of Water
We made it to the movie--a place with its fancy pants on, that offers seat-side food service, so I went hungry. But left hangry, because the server never even noticed I was there! But the movie was colorful and pleasing to the senses a good part of the time. It's modern kind of blended live-action/animation, very smooth with the special effects changing the look of the actors to blue-skinned aliens. Well, not aliens as they are on their own planet.The theme continues over from the first AVATAR... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Time to get packing!
Flaming skies to start the day, and cold, cold out there, temps in the teens. Time and its funny ways... I realized suddenly that I fly out to Seattle next Tuesday to spend a week with the family there, and I've barely begun to think about what to shove in the little suitcase! WI'm flying on Southwest Airlines... Hoping that they have sorted out their holiday disasters which, it seems, had more to do with an obsolete computer system than the people who work the flights. Seems the CEO and COO,... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, January 2, 2023
It's working!
Waking to snow again, just a few inches on the back porch rail. Temperatures today will range from high 20s to low 30s F, so that's not too bad. I have started taking a couple of new supplements for my diabetes. For a few weeks now I've added berberine to my daily doses. It works well for many people for lowering blood sugar numbers significantly, and can bring down the three-monthly average, the A1C blood test, down considerably. Side effects are minimal, generally, and the effective dosage is... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, December 26, 2022
The Day After
The sky is growing pale as morning creeps in. The house is warming up after the chill of night. I've had a breakfast of eggs scrambled with the last crab cake, and am enjoying a cup of coffee. Good chance after that, I'll be going back to bed for a while. The kitchen and dining room, even the living room are pretty much recovered from yesterday's Christmas cheer. It was a good and satisfying day, though the menu we imagined in the days before did not quite entirely materialize. That's fine, we... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Tradition took a hit this Christmas
For all it was a quiet Christmas to begin with, it got quite busy. First, Charlie and I had his 'Monte Christmos' for breakfast. We gave each other presents, and then, when Charlie went back over to his side of the duplex to get something, his pup, Milo, had some sort of seizure. It only lasted a moment, and he was fine soon after, but we took him over to the emergency vet because--Well, you do when something like that happens. The emergency vet was too busy and sent us to another... and by the... Sign in to see full entry.
It's Breakfast, It's Breakfast, It's Finally Breakfast*...!
Like every good and hopeful kid, I went to bed early last night, and as is our custom, Charlie came over while I slept and finished up polishing and lighting our Christmas decoration. It's our Christmas magic, waking and coming out to see what he's done. I woke before dark, as usual, and very hungry, so took the chance he'd been and gone, and came out of my room to new lights and tinsels and things! I made some toast and eggs and after adding a few more gifty things to the scene, went back to... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, December 24, 2022
Warming up for Christmas
It's 22F outside this morning, and the water runs freely again from yesterday's frozen taps! Predicted high of 47! So energized this morning! And I'd better be, as there are packages to drive to the UPS store, and things to wrap, and tomorrow's 'mixed grill' to thaw, and sitting places to clear of stuff...! And the last door to open on the advent calendar my Seattle daughter sent me, that is all different kinds of candy-covered licorice. Not to everyone's taste, but definitely to mine! But first... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, December 23, 2022
Happy Christmas Eve Eve...!
It was about a week ago I decided, yes, I want to decorate for the holidays this year. It was a near thing! But the key thing was to find something entirely new to do instead of hauling out the usual stuff and doing the usual decorations and all. And I am quite enjoying the progress we've made, though we are far from done. Charlie, of course, comes by to do the heavy lifting and stuff that requires getting down on the floor, or even just on the knees. I am so glad of him! It would not have... Sign in to see full entry.