Monday, December 29th, was a complete your 'to-do-list' kind of day. Here is a bit of the list: laundry, Relief Society January Newsletter final draft to Jenessa for review, Hobos gift card for Nissa and Todd's upcoming anniversary, interior Christmas decorations down and to the shed with the exception of the tree and front door, ordered firefly lights for next year's exterior decorations, cleared the DVR of some documentaries. I enjoyed a message stream with Paul, our grandson. He is at a rough patch and it is good to keep in touch with him.
In the evening, Claude and I watched the second Hobbit movie, "Desolation of Smaug", and finished the ham and funeral potatoes from Christmas. Yeah!!
Tuesday, December 30th, I had another of those wake-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night experiences. I went to my living room and curled up in my recliner and enjoyed my Christmas tree and its lovely lights. I do love this tree each year. It will have to come down next week but, oh, how I love it when it is up.
Since I had a prescription refill ready for pickup, we determined a biscuit run should accompany this errand. What can I say, we are always up for a biscuit run. Thank heavens Bojangles sells them all day.
Jenessa gave me a couple of corrections to the Relief Society Newsletter. I made those and was able to post it on Facebook and via eMail to the sisters.
Then I tackled some tickets to things we want to see. I got tickets for "Song Sung Blue" at the Georgetown Theaters. I also purchased tickets to two shows at the Lexington Opera House. The first is the Screwtape Letters. It is a play based on the book of the same name by C.S. Lewis. I bought the book for my Kindle so I can reread this book before we see the play. And, I purchased tickets in June for Spamalot.
It was also fun to read the eMails from our young people serving missions around the world. Their vocabulary amuses me. Anyone they interact with as a member, contact or other missionary, that they really feel good about is GOAT (Greatest of All Times). That one I know. Many of their other terms, I really don't ever use. And those whose mission is in another language often drop into that language for a word or phrase. It is uplifting and fun to read of their experiences through their young, honest hearts.
Wednesday, December 31st, was New Year's Eve. We all should know by now that means a Lord of the Rings Marathon for Claude and me. We can't even remember how many years we have been doing this on New Year's Eve. Hayden made sure he was home from college so he could watch them with us. We drove to LaGrange and picked him up, went through a drive-thru at Chick-filA and picked up dinner, then home and all got into our comfy clothes. We spread the counter with all kinds of treats from Hayden's list of possibilities and Claude's list of wants. We ate our dinner and started the movies about 3pm.
Thursday, January 1st, and we awoke to a brand new year, 2026 here we come.
My sister-in-law, Kris, sent me this for all their year with Cordell. He has Parkinson's. Has had it for years. He had knee replacement surgery during 2025. It has not gone well at all. He was back in the hospital for his 4th (if I have it counted correctly) surgery on that knee. He keeps getting infections. He got to Las Vegas for the National Rodeo Finals but was not able to attend one evening at the rodeo. He is our hero for how he has managed his Parkinson's all these years. He is working with this knee replacement with the same determination. But the struggle is real and it has been long. I think Kris found the perfect meme for Cordell and 2025/2026.
Friday, January 2nd, we determined we would start 2026 with a real date. We determined Cattleman's Roadhouse for dinner first. I saw this stick in the ground as we went into Cattleman's. When we went back to the Jeep, I paused to take this picture. The world 'anticipation' came to my mind when I saw the stick. It is put near the curbs so that a snowplow knows there is a curb there when we have snowfalls. We have the bitter cold, just not the snow...yet. It will come. Anticipation!
Then to the Georgetown Cinema to see "Song Sung Blue". This is a true story of a Milwaukee couple who loved to sing and were good at it. They loved Neil Diamond and became a Neil Diamond tribute band. It stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. Claude and I both really enjoyed the film. It made for a really great date night.
Saturday, January 3rd, I declared as a totally lazy day for me. This frees me to do as I please with no guilt for not accomplishing something fantastic. This is definitely a retirement kind of thing. I don't know that I ever did that before retirement. I like being able to do this. I think Claude and I are still both in a holiday/vacation mindset. We are not really ready for reality to get to us.
For our Christmas Stocking this year, the Marx family gave us this little book "The Kentucky Bucket List". There are 100 possibilities for seeing things in Kentucky. Each page has an item listed on it with a quote about the possibility. At the back of the book is a list of all 100 possibilities with a box to check after you have accomplished that possibility. Andie was thinking we may have already done a lot of them. Saturday morning, I read the book and checked the boxes I was sure we did. When Claude came in the living room to sit for bit, I explained to him what I need and that I wanted his input on a few of the items. I went down the list, told him the only I had confidence checking and asked him about the ones I felt we needed some credit but we honestly had not done exactly what the author suggested. And 'sleep in a houseboat on Lake Cumberland'. We have been to Lake Cumberland, stayed there for about three days, hiked in that area. We never slept on a houseboat. I feel we should get credit for enjoying that part of Kentucky even if we didn't sleep on a houseboat. I decided that we could get half-credit for those kinds of questions. When I finished the book and calculated our accomplishments, we had 46 full credit items and 5 half credit items. If you gave us full credit for all the items, we would have done 51 out 100 possibilities. I think that is pretty good. We not have some idea of things to do in Kentucky that we have not yet done.
One of the quotes for one of the possibilities was something I had to share with my BFF, Laura Carter. It was a quote by Herodotus that said, "Older people shouldn't eat healthy food--they need all the preservatives they can get." Hysterical!
I checked Facebook after completing this task and a post my Michael Crisp came across my newsfeed. I clicked on his name because it was the name of the author of the book the kids gave us. I took this screenshot and sent it to Michael and Andie. Turns out this Michael Crisp is one and the same as the author of the book. He is a City Councilman in Georgetown. How interesting is that?! It is a tiny world.
The biggest blessing of this day is that Cordell got to leave the hospital and will now try once again to recuperate from knee surgery. Prayers please!
Sunday, January 4th, has been another good day. I was able to be chorister for sacrament meeting. I do enjoy this. My arm struggles but it is good to have it do normal things.
Parker Risher returned from his mission and we got hugs and chatted a bit before the meeting began. Oh how they grow and change when they serve a mission.
Lunch was a Arby's. They have Mello Yello. They have the best BLT on delicious bread with shredded lettuce that I love. And, I top it off with an apple turnover. It is truly a great lunch for this girl.
Claude got his Sunday nap that makes all the difference in his upcoming week. I watched and deleted some of my documentaries. Then I blogged and did my pictures. Tonight I have a Relief Society presidency meeting that is via Zoom.
Good day. Good week. Great start to a new year.
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