Last week was pretty mild. It was the anniversary of my mother's passing (four years now), observed merely with reflection. I finished a Christmas stocking I'd been working on since October. (I also got the Xmas stuff down out of the way of the cleaning lady on Wednesday, then got it down to the basement later, so that's …
Month: January 2024
Ham and Jam and Spamalot
This weekend, which has totally been given over to household reorganization, has been heavenly. I'm still deXmassing - the tree is down now, but I have to get all those ornaments back in their little boxes. That's OK, as I said to Susan, I have until November, when it all comes back out again. I've also continued with …
29 years
So, two weeks into the New Year. I've been doing pretty well, mostly quiet. I decided to cut way down on my drinking - no automatic glass of wine every night now, and I'm finishing my evenings with herbal tea instead of bourbon. Actually, I'm pretty much having just one cocktail for particular meals on the weekends, and …
2023 Wrapup
So... yeah. Not really gonna cover world events or anything like that. 2023 was the First Year Without Charles, of course, first one of those since I was 30. Life is quite different from 1994 - you can definitely do a Major Epoch of my life that would just be Before Charles, Charles, and After Charles. And I'm …
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