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1月1日 Holiday SeasonFinally at the end of a holiday season. It didn't start in earnest until Dec. 21 as I worked on the 20th. Fortunately, all my shopping was pretty much done thanks to online shopping. I had the second of my annual ladies' solstice dinners and did Christmas dinner.
It's a little strange coming home alone on Christmas Eve and waking up Christmas morning in an empty house. But it feels right as one life stage flows into another. It's now my childrens' turn to have the racuous Christmas mornings. I can handle peaceful and quiet until I make the round of visits.
I finally bought myself a proper digital camera and I'm liking it more than I expected. It takes good pictures in spite of me and I'm hoping the pictures will get better as I master all the settings. So I have pictures of the whole holiday season including the post-Christmas dinner mess which was unusually bad.
I had a proper New Year's Eve at my daughter's party and a proper hangover New Year's Day.
I will make my usual resolutions. Get back in shape, get better organized and manage my money better. These exact resolutions, too, are becoming an annual tradition. 5月1日 May DaySo, I get to start over again, again. My companion of ten years loaded all of his stuff into a friend’s van and headed west to relocate to Oregon. Quite a distance from Pennsylvania. He goes to join his young adult children and get his own fresh start.
The parting was bittersweet. It’s the right thing for both of us. I threw a family party. After we ate, we gathered in a circle and passed around a pretty good bottle of champagne. As the bottle went from person to person, each expressed wishes of good luck and explained how they would each miss him. It turned out to be a very nice tribute.
Tonight, I continue the process of moving on. I’m going to the first meeting of a group of people, some of whom I already know, who are planning a vacation canoeing in the Wabakimi Wilderness in Ontario in August. It’s been about 20 years since I made such a trip, and I can’t wait to hear the loons again. |
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