HAPPY NEW YEAR 'ALL

WHAT SHALL THE NEW YEAR BRING?
We shall see.

ON SUNDAY around 3:20pm, I headed out the door to walk to the football field, walking 4 labs around then walked HOME.  Took me an hour and 10 minutes to complete my walk.  There was a bench at the field that I sat on a few times to catch my breath.  It helped.  I was ready to sit in my living room chair to cool off.  After I sat a spell, my legs felt like rubber and I knew I was finished for the day.  

You know you're old when walking a mile and a half to two miles takes so much out of one making it difficult to get about.  I managed today.  I pray I can continue a walking program.  The thought of walking more doesn't excite me.  I have no way of knowing if I will ever like walking to get fit, but I can purpose it in my heart to walk for good reasons.  Mark this off my WALKING CHART that I have not started yet.  I have high HOPES to walk a great deal in 2025.  Eat better and declutter our messes.  

Ate supper then retired to our TV room to watch PBS's jAmesTowN.

When this series first broadcasted, I started to watch it about JAMESTOWN of the 1600s.  Didn't finish at the time.  For some reason it has appealed to me for now.  I understand that there are three seasons of it.  

NEW YEAR's EVE is here and I think we will take it easy instead of going somewhere to celebrate the start of a new year.  I needed to have some labs done earlier in the day to see where my TSH is for thyroid health which meant a trip to TOPEKA.  It's been exactly 6 weeks since I started a different thyroid medicine dose.  We got up early, did some chores, went to the post office and gas station for fuel.  Traveled over to the lab and had blood drawn.  Went to Breakfast and I ate about half of my meal.  Boxed the leftovers for my daughter's dog to chow down on.  Being resourceful.

Since the grocery store was near, we went to get a STARBUCK's unsweetened Iced green Tea, some V8 and pineapple juice.  I was feeling a bit off after I ate and thought a V8 would help straighten out how my body deals with food.

Then we went to GOD'S STOREHOUSE where my dear Husband found a very nice 19th century American Empire Eastlake dresser with a huge attached mirror and a slab of marble.  What a find he came across for $45.oo!!!  After it is worked over I'll share a pic of it.

It had a broken piece off of the top of the mirror's wood work so I ignored looking at it closer until he mentioned it.  Believing he could repair it, I opened a drawer where the piece that was broken off of the dresser was inside.  Then I opened the bottom drawer and a beautiful crown piece was in it.  He hadn't bothered to open the drawers so having the missing pieces in hand was exciting.    

The entire piece can be polished up with the missing pieces added to make the piece worth buying.  A beautiful piece for sure.  So we did, but we'd have to return home to get the other car so we could haul the piece home.

Before we headed home we stopped off at Natural Grocers for groceries.  Drove HOME and picked up the other car.  I'd still drive our larger car over along with my Husband driving the smaller car.  The large mirror went into the car I was driving and the base of the dresser fit into the car my hubby was driving.  He loaded up the dresser.

I needed a few more groceries from SAMs.  I ran into my good friend Eileen and we chatted an hour.  Good to see her then we journeyed Home to unload the American Empire Eastlake dresser into the house where it will be repaired then placed in the SHE SHED along with my Victorian Bedroom Suite.

The weather has turned off flat cold and I was chilled to the bone when we got home.  It's taken the entire evening to warm up.  Supper was corn bread and black eyed peas.  Watched some tele and will welcome the new year in with a quiet evening at HOME.  HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I'm alright with staying HOME.  Red Hots and peanuts to snack on before the new year has stricter guidelines to honor.

2025 will be with expectations.  I plan on using January 1st as a start date to walk as often as I can.      
Eat more veggies and fruit.
Eat less meat, dairy and grains.
Take my supplements.
Continue to drink lots of spring water.
Clean out from under the Kitchen sink.
Completely clean out the closet.
Tidy the utility room.
Organize the Master Bedroom that's being used for storage.
Write a book and get it published.
Sew.
Decorate a doll house.
Read scripture each day.
Clean out a storage unit.
Thin out Christmas decor.
Paint some rooms in the COTTAGE.
Etc.  Etc.  Etc.
Lord willing.

Here's to be a blessed year ahead of us. 

Praying.

~d