My first entry of 2021 in 2020

My gosh! I have not written here because (blush) I was too lazy to find my password and I was asked to enter it for no reason I could determine. I hate the password memory game. So. I’m that shallow.
Maybe I can catch up a bit for my own needs here with notes:
1. Have been healthy
2. Did for the second time in my house here put up a Christmas tree. Enjoyed it.
3.. Had the first Christmas alone in 79.5 years.
4. My son and his partner and her son visited the week before.
5. My daughter here visited before Christmas and brought an armload of flowers she’d selected at a local florist’s store, and I still have some orchid stems alive and creating a lot of joy in my kitchen window. She had asked and I said regarding a gift I always loved live flowers (we both know I have everything I need). I thought she’d pick some up at the grocery store. No idea she’d go to a florist.
6. I was feeling low on Christmas Eve, re no expectation of family, but starting sorting the many cds I’d moved here and then never did more than put them in a stand or two or three.
I started to play them on a cd/dvd player that is new and fell in love with them all over again. I was like a child with an early holiday gift. I couldn’t go to bed, just played and sorted the cds until 2 a.m. Singing and dancing for sure.
6. On Christmas that continued, Calls came in. I’d found a little turkey breast, only 3 pounds, and when I started roasting it I thought…Jeeze! I’ve cooked enough holiday meals to know that in the hour and fifteen minutes it takes to roast the turkey I can make myself an entire Christmas dinner. And I did! Turkey, gravy, dressing from a package, fresh pole beans and French rolls from my weekly Whole Foods delivery. Dessert was a slice of cake I’d bought at the grocery store and frozen. I had wine already cold in the fridge. I had Rwandan coffee. I made a funny video for my kids and close friends about my merrier than I’d expected holiday dinner. I tried posting it on FB but it was too long I guess.
7. However happy I was, I will admit I’d wrecked my kitchen!!! I included that on the video. I could have fed 15 with the messy pans and such I had to clear away after dinner. I’m careless about cleaning as I go in all instances.

1. I continue to enjoy the music and dvds I’d not been able to enjoy before this. I’ve not finished sorting them all.
   So that ends my holiday report here for the end of 2020. As always, we have the choice to make our lives as entertaining and satisfying as we can. I would be the first to say that I have observed some negative effects from the isolation that in February will be a year of the staying mostly at home. They are part of each day here. And I find the choice of making a long and sometimes lonely day somewhat satisfying is weighty at times. But so far, I’m still able to live comfortably, even with occasions of pleasure at times, enough to continue the isolation.

2. I’ve also researched that spot found on my pancreas in the scan at the hospital – regarding the chance it is a sign of oncoming pancreatic cancer. I feel fortified about that. More on that in another entry. I’m not focusing on that happening. Just looking for information. I’m scheduled for another scan in two years.

This finishes my 2020 diary.

Last updated January 09, 2021