Postby Twins' Mom » Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:58 am
I was thinking, Kathryn, when I read last night, what a serendipitous surprise it is for you to have a tree-trimming party tomorrow! And your entire family can attend together. (I hope it's a good surprise!)
The Hanukkah service and dinner last night was enjoyable but loud and too many people. For the temple, it's a good problem to have. I think there were reservations for 140 or so and our social hall was really overfull and over loud. Latkes as usual were wonderful and we have a bag in the refrigerator. Dh alluded to something next Friday night that was being planned among select latke cookers too. He showered when he got home to get the smell off but I need to wash those clothes today!
We are out on Tuesday p.m. - dh was willing to find a sub for bowling toto Hanukkah at friends' home. Otherwise quiet week. I would like to call dcousin J and have lunch and go to cemetery with her to place our wreaths to remember her dh and my parents and siblings. Better late than never.
What else? Christmas cards, Hanukkah cards. Also back into genealogy: corrections on DAR supplemental application and try to organize goals and thoughts for going forward. Sometimes I feel like the dog that caught the car and didn't know what to do with it. What I'd most like to do is to publish more. But there's not a scholarly journal that is regional, and the NGSQ is mostly case studies. What I have to write for now is narrative, family histories similar to the KDP in the portfolio. In a little more than four years I'll want to submit my renewal for CG, and the those narratives would work, and satisfy my desire to get some of what I've researched published and "on the record" for others.
I pulled out my Trigeminal Neuralgia journal (TN) and am restarting there. Last entry was 2021. If I need increases in meds I need to document what's going on. And it's good for me to keep a record to possibly ID patterns.
LadyM, I can't believe your step goals start with the 6 a.m. hour.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better [wo]man. Ben Franklin