01/01/21 New Year's Day

NYC DD got the vaccine Wednesday. Chicago niece nurse practitioner and Syracuse sister nurse received theirs over the weekend. None of them feel anything but relief. Peps, love your lawn and heartfelt reflection on 2020. DD, start freezing those ice bar molds ! Ceci, you've been weeding through your house, yard and regain, leaving space for 2021 to flourish! Diane, I am confident your mojo is still there ! Liz, 2021 holds great things !! Shirl, you exemplify the fierce love and spirit of our tribe. Ann, David, BB, miss Bonnie, Paula...love it when your voices chime in ! Shel, you are missed !!

Wonderful news about DD and your other family healthcare workers. I hope the pace of vaccine distribution can be increased. Since Florida is already giving it to people over 65 I also hope they are properly prioritizing healthcare people. This is what the appointment site for my Florida county says for qualification: "Must be age 65+ or a Healthcare Worker".

Today is putting away Christmas decorations day. On about 3 hours of sleep as DD called me at midnight to say Happy New Year and I never got back to sleep. Don't know why she thought I would be up. And DS is on a tear again. I can't do anything right. At this point I don't know why I came home or stayed so long. I am just tired of it all.

But I hope the rest of you have a Happy New Year!

Weight? Don't know. I am still at my Dad's.

We had a delicious dinner with so much butter it doesn't bear thinking about! But I feel fine about it. Back on the wagon today.

Re the vaccine, I can't help but feel like CA is so hellbent on making sure the right people get vaccinated that no one is getting vaccinated. They've only administered 24% of what they've received. Get it in people's arms...

No plans for today except to drive back home and a walk to burn off a bite or two of butter.

Happy New Year all!

I was unaware that CA had distributed so little of the vaccine. I know the front line doctors who are parents at my school have been vaccinated. But I know of no others. Given the way our legislators seem to work, this news comes as no surprise. Sigh...

The even worse part is that's above the national average of 19%. What are these people waiting for?

Wow! LEt's hope that next week with the holidays over the vaccination rate picks up nationwide.

OceanDiane, So glad to hear your loved ones on the frontline are getting vaccinated. Your daughter has come through such a terrible storm, with more to come. Visualizing all those needed antibodies growing like crazy.

Liz do you think your son acts out because you're leaving? Seems like he would prefer you just stay in your house with him, and not date. But of course, you have to live your life.

Cecily I don't know what the answer is for speeding up the vaccine distribution. It seems like every step of the way, the Covid response has been bungled.

There's a bar in my city that is defying the closure of restaurants. They were open last night. We have a little original downtown, back when this was a farming community, before it became a 4th ring suburb. There are a handful of restaurants, it's so unfair to the others who followed the emergency order and stayed closed. You can disagree about whether restaurants should be closed, people are losing their livelihood, there is a lot of pain to go around. No good solutions. But it is the law right now. And all the self declared freedom fighters drinking at this bar don't seem the least bit bothered that the co owner is out on bail awaiting a trial for ambushing police officers and shooting at them. I guess if you want to drink a beer while singing I'm proud to be an American at the top of your lungs, blue lives don't matter as much to you as they did this summer. Anyhow, we know where NOT to eat when indoor eating is allowed again. I'm probably not their target demographic anyhow.

We are supporting outdoor eating again today, meeting friends for a late lunch.

We have a Nordic Track that has been sitting disabled in the corner of the basement. Something is binding the flywheel. Haven't used it in probably a decade. DH said he thinks he can fix it if it is something I want to use. I do. It was a hand me down from my parents, and I did like it once upon a time. We've bought other equipment that has come and gone. I think I've learned that unless the home equipment is good quality, it's probably not going to be used. So, I'm excited about the Nordic Track working again. Stay tuned. :)

Liz, I'm sorry DS is being a pill. Not fun. Maybe it's a good time to remind him of the hierarchy of your family. There is absolutely no reason for you to feel dismal in your own home.

I almost dragged out the scale this morning, but decided against it. The struggle is real.

NYE was pleasant enough. Thankful for that. BFF got stressed out over his dog being stressed and that caused some stress. I dosed the dog with CBD and she and Keira, who also had a mega dose of CBD to deal with the fireworks, were two old girls enjoying their buzz for the rest of the evening. Fireworks? What fireworks?

I stayed up much too late hooting with the owls. As a consequence, there was no soaring at dawn with the eagles. I didn't get up until just after 10. Oh, well.... It's New Year's Day. I'm allowed.

I think my tangerine tree is dying. Sad. Fruit isn't that good, but it is a pretty tree. If it goes, I will replace it with a Meyer Lemon tree. Much more useful to me and equally as attractive. Also, Meyer lemons are much less fickle about freezing weather. They can handle a hard frost with ease.

I am het up to talk with the NUT today. I did send her my writing from yesterday and the photo. I now have a mental image to rely upon to help me understand what my personal best could be. Lots to think about.

I am starting the new year off without resolutions. I really have never been big on the whole resolution thing and the few I have made have all fallen short and faded away. Instead I am working on positive actions that will help me move towards mental peace and contentment. Those actions will be in the form of self care and will be SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound). Some will be daily, others will be more long term. Ta Da!

The new "lawn" holds fascinating and tempting odors for the puppies. I caught the two girl pups pulling on it and had to reprimand them sternly. Lulu found my corrections rather amusing, while Dinah was absolutely horrified that she was in trouble. Dinah is letting the lawn alone. Lulu, naturally, is still needing some supervision.

Well, perhaps it is time to get on track for the day.

Happy New Year to us all. May 2021 be filled with hope and personal balance/tranquility/harmony/inner peace/etc...

I love your pups different reactions. Back in the day, I was Dinah, my BFF Lulu. I can think of a few times we got into situations where I was chagrined, and she was subversively defiant.

I don't think Lulu is really defiant. I think it's more of an entitlement issue. LOL! She's got a bit of a Princess Margaret complex crossed with Judy Holiday comical innocence. I read her expression and glee as more of a, "What??? I was just having fun. Really, what is the matter? Come, join me!"