New Year's Eve is just another day. It came and went like any other evening, (me going to bed early hoping the puppy would sleep through the night). I didn't make my reading goal but I came damn close! I gained some weight this past year but I also gained some insight. I have slowed down so much and I feel like I now focus on things that make me really and truly happy. I have the Yale course on the Science of Well Being to thank for it. I think I might take it again at some point. I listen to the podcast right now and it is just enough of a boost to keep me going. If you haven't checked it out yet, I highly recommend it! I'm not into New Year's resolutions mostly because I set goals for myself throughout the year that I don't end up attaining. There is one thing I have been doing every New Year for the past five years and that is the Bowl Full of Lemons home organization challenge . To know me is to know I love the minimalist life. I have a practica
My advent calendar idea just didn't. It worked the first night and then we were too busy, too tired, too apathetic. Covid Christmas is going to be nothing special and that is totally ok with me. I'm exhausted. Today is my last day of work for four days. All I have to do to prepare for Christmas is wrap. The house is a total mess but see above. I'm not cleaning it. I am going to go for long walks, read, and nourish myself with good food, good spirits and perhaps some long phone calls with friends and family, (unless they are too busy with the Christmas mayhem). Our new puppy, Toby, is a delight when he is not biting me. He is 10 weeks old and is pretty close to sleeping through the night. The biting is a total suck fest though. He bit me so hard yesterday that I not only have a puncture wound but it is all black and blue. I am too old for this. My old lady skin is taking too long to heal and all the wounds on my hands make me look like a heroin addict. It is abou