Happy New Year

 

I hope 2026 brings you good health and happiness.

🙂

Welcome 2024

 Must say, New Year's Eve was basically the same as any old day/night.  Watched an episode of Vera and went to bed normal time.  So nothing exciting around here.  Hubby works a lot over the Christmas holidays as the plant is shut down, so it's a crazy busy time for the maintenance guys.  He was super tired, he is starting to feel his age nowadays!

We got all the outside Christmas lights brought in and put away, so that's another job off the list.  I spent a good part of the day doing what I could on the Temperature Cross Stitch:

So now I record what temperature it is going to be each day and I think every few days I will stitch a few days at once.  For instance today will be a high of minus 3 oC , so I will stitch that is the second blue colour.  I will post a photo when I have done a few days.

Today is a regular day, and I am doing laundry; may as well take advantage of the cheap hydro.  Hubby is shoveling snow; there's not much.  Think we may find a movie and sit and watch that.  Supper is all done, just the same as last night.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Welcome 2023....

Happy New Year to you all.

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I have to admit I am glad to see the back of 2022.  It's been a year of a lot of health issues for various members of the family.

Is it me or was there a lot of celebrity deaths this past week or two?  It seemed to be one person after another who died.  I will admit I am one of those people who does read the obituaries.  I also enjoy reading the article in the newspaper about which famous person died in which month every year.

The day we flew out to the UK was the died the Queen passed away.  That was interesting watching the funeral.  Although we didn't watch it all as we had booked afternoon tea at a hotel in the Lake District.

Not sure how this post turned out to be a post about death?  

I am hopeful 2023 will be a positive year.  I will be copying birthdays and anniversaries from my 2022 calendar to my 2023 one today.  I also generally make a list of things to do around the house for the year.  I try and preplan as much as possible.  We did get ahead of the game with our jobs/things to do in 2022, as we ended up replacing my car and redoing the roof in 2022.  Both of those things were supposed to happen in 2023.

However dh found a hole in the roof, so that HAD to be fixed.  I had a funny noise happening with my car that no one could fix, so we decided to cut our losses and replace the car. 

Here's hoping you all have a productive, healthy and loving 2023! 

New Year and new member of the family......

A Happy New Year to everyone and I hope all your hopes and dreams will come true for 2018.

Here is our newest member of our family; Marigold!

As soon as we walked into Pier One on Sunday we saw her and had to have her.  At the moment is she on the opposite wall of our bed.  So when we wake up we see her...LOL  Her eyes are gorgeous and we fell in love with her right away.  I may move her to the dining room but will live with her in  our bedroom for a few days...........

Happy New Year to you all........

So here we are in 2011, wonder what sort of year it will be for us all.

I know for someone in Canada it will be a marvellous start to the year as someone has won 50 million dollars in the Loto Max............will add it wasn't us, which sucks.........mind you what you have never had you never miss, right?

It's a funny old start to 2011 for us as it's pouring down and very mild?  Will say the good thing about that is it should wash away all or most of the snow, so we will have a fresh clean start before the next snowfall.

We had a rip roaring exciting New Years Eve, nothing was on TV, so we were in bed by 9pm.  Molly had me up by 6am, so all in all just like any regular day.  As I pointed out to someone, what difference does it really make to seeing the New Year in at midnight, as seeing it in when you wake up at 6am?  Must be getting old I think.

I know 2011 will be a busy year for us, as dd plans on getting married in the Fall..........should have the exact date in a few days, as she is in the process of choosing a venue.  Then of course back at renovation central we have a few jobs that need completing.  We are hoping by the end of Spring that the attic will be finally completed.  We have the mud room to totally strip down and start afresh, plus a hundred and one other jobs to do.

I want to tackle the outside again and "baby" the raspberries, so they grow enough to make around 100 250ml (1/2 pint, 1 cup) pots of jam.  Last year was a poor crop, but am hoping for more this year.

Then of course I have to lose some weight.  I still can't exercise mind you as my back is still sore, but I am hoping within the week I should be able to start again with the Wii.

I am going to review more books, got 4 to do for the month of January when they come.  Great way of me getting to read new books for free and then donating them to my local library. 

Back to doing my Daily Savings challenge,  read about it here, and if you want me to explain further just let me know.  I am continuing with Swagbucks and am saving up for something specific, can't say what at the moment, as it's a gift for someone.  Will be trying to save as much money as possible for this wedding, as like many of you out there we are not rolling in money, so all these little things I am doing help.

All in all 2011 is going to be both an exciting  and a challenging year I can see.

Oh, almost forgot, one of my hopes for 2011 is that I don't spend half of my life at the Dentist's office!!!  I don't want to have another year like last year (touching wood....my head!!)

I saw this over at Jake's blog and thought it was appropriate:

"May your troubles be less
and your blessings be more
And nothing but happiness
come through your door."

-Irish Blessing

Happy New Year, should I die quietly or go out with a bang.......

I am sick, I have a terrible cold. Its one of those colds where you have to sit with your mouth open as you can't breathe through your nose............you know the one where you wake up in a morning and your throat and mouth feel like sandpaper, that sort of cold. Now I am beginning to look like Rudolph as I have to keep blowing my nose, and it is so red and sore. Oh and as I can't breathe thorough my nose, dh is telling me I am snoring like mad in bed.....personally I think he is exagerating, me snore, I don't think so!!!

So a Happy New Year to you all. We had a quiet New Years Eve, as I am sick. We normally go out for a meal, but I am just not up to that. This cold has really thrown me for a loop, I am so tired. So I said to dh we would wait until I was feeling better. Of course I was in bed early as I am so tired, but that's no change, as I can't remember when we did see the New Year in.

I have to say 2008 wasn't a bad year, it was full of ups and downs, but overall it wasn't bad. Lets hope 2009 is a happy, healthy and positive year for all of us.

Also don't forget to put your first 25 cents into your savings pot, if you are particpating in the Daily Savings Club.