Contentment and Health to You in Everyday Ramblings

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This is the boathouse on the river about a mile down the Springwater Corridor multi-use path almost directly across the river from where I live. It looks just like this outside now. It is clear and very cold with an intense East wind. I took this picture on New Years Day last year.

I never really got sick enough over Christmas to be fully down for the count but yesterday afternoon after work I lazed around and finished The Magician’s Land, the third book in Lev Grossman’s trilogy about magicians that don’t use wands and are in some ways more grown up than Harry Potter and in some ways not. Today as I sound stuffed up (probably because I am) I decided not to teach up on the unit.

The nurses hearing me probably would have made me leave any way; we have strict prohibitions about who can interact with the families right now. I was looking forward to teaching but not getting up there and back.

I want to be well for tomorrow, New Years Eve here. I am going to walk a fast 5K through downtown at midnight. My private student asked me what I was doing and I told her and she wanted to do it too so that will be fun and social.

The whole reason I am doing this is symbolic, I want to spend the turning of the year out in the world interacting with others instead of home alone asleep. I will have a few quiet days afterwards to recover. I spend far too much time alone.

I am working Friday but it will be from home and low-key.

The cats and I are settling into a routine. It is incremental but Diego is learning that he doesn’t absolutely have to be a brat to get what he wants, though he absolutely continues to have his brat moments. Carlo is eating a tiny bit slower but is also getting very creative about figuring out ways to encourage me to feed him more including pinging Kes and telling her I am not feeding him enough. It is a struggle not giving into his demands.

Diego’s stitches have almost all dissolved and he is looking good, no infections or problems. They are both very healthy and playful and that is a joy to behold.

I am not making any resolutions this year. I may not even do a year in review other to say that I am extremely grateful my oldest sister made it this far. She has three more weeks of chemo and then a break and then six weeks.

Saint Joe has also made me incredibly grateful. We had a visibly good year and he enjoys his work and Mr. NPD likes him a lot so that is good.

I am much more relaxed teaching up at the hospital and my private students. I have a level of confidence I didn’t have this time last year. I believe this will carry on into the New Year.

Tomorrow, New Year’s Eve here, I will work until 2 PM, come home and do my annual headstand letting go practice, make a nice dinner, take a long warming bath, rest and then go downtown and walk really fast into 2015.

I am looking forward to it all!

May your whole year ahead be healthy, contented and auspicious! And if that isn’t an option, at least full of days that bring simple joys.