Suddenly...

INTER LEFT on the first day...

So strange, on the 22nd, it got cold that night but since then it has been like Spring almost...the temps rose to the 70's it was bright and cloudless and I have not used any heat, knock on wood.  And speaking of wood I haven't had a fire in 2 days sooo Im thrilled.  I don't like cold weather.  I had enough of that when I lived in NY.  I haven't said much about it but I had plans to move  from NYC to Lake Placid.  The medical center was hiring paramedics and I was so wanting to get out of NYC...so I took the National Registry exam so my credentials would carry over no matter where I moved to...

And I had inquired about work there and they basically told me, all you need to do is apply we will arrange for an interview and you will be hired...Excellent.

Then I started looking at living arrangements, and even considered that I could purchase a little place of my own...THEN I came across the snowfall amounts for the area...4 ft annually...that's up to my shoulders ok....

NO freakin way...I wonder if they get less than that now...so I just googled it, currently there is 2 ft of snow on the ground and they expect 2 more inches today...NO thank you!! I sure made the right call on that one. I hate shoveling snow.

Maybe eventually climate change will make Lake Placid a nice place to be year round...but their snow season is from Oct 1 to May 11, Damn. 

So it's the day after Christmas, I have my windows open Im wearing shorts, flip flops and a tank top...Yeah it's warm 77 degrees!!...one year we did have snow the day after Christmas...and back in 1973 we had snow on the ground at Christmas when a freak storm brought us 2 ft of snow...We had to walk to work that whole week...NO cars could get out we don't have snow plows here...
Christmas was quiet as expected, my son stood me up on Christmas eve so we did the pizza on Christmas day instead...he got confused when I sent him a text that said Lets have pizza and watch a movie tomorrow...but he read it the next day so he thought that meant tomorrow...So then he texted me back on Christmas Eve and said OK see you tomorrow at 5...sooo it was okay in the end he didn't want to do the movies so I watched alone after he went back home...I am used to being alone now and being around someone else sort of puts me on edge...I've been pretty much alone since Jan of 2020 so almost 2 yrs.

I ate way too much garbage food...and there is still some of it around...next year I am not planning ANYthing....  MY cooking skills have just disappeared.  I tried to make a couple things, total fail!! 
The pizza was good right out of the box, and the beer was cold....so that was the best part. Didn't get to do the firepit, it drizzled a little tiny bit just enough to get the outside seating wet. 

I had wanted to see Mickey's Christmas Carol, it's a fav classic of mine, but it didn't come on...I should have Youtubed it,  I did see part of A Christmas Carol starring George C Scott, and I saw It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart...all favs, and I watched the 2 Home Alone's made me chuckle for sure..so those were the only old friends I spent Christmas with. 

I got some gift cards to help me get thru January so I will get bird seed, and I think one tank of propane, so If I can't cut wood I wont have to I can use the gas heater...and I want some white paint to paint my front storm door it has some rust forming...and one Walmart card I think I will it go for dog food so I hope to survive after paying the huge freakin tax bill...The other day I gathered up some gold jewelry I don't have much, doubt I could get $1,000 for it all.  See the trouble is with such a huge leap this tax year it never goes down NOT in all the years of my life have taxes on property GONE DOWN...it only goes up..
Poor Jimmy the dog had to spend Christmas in the vets overnight  with pancreatitis...he came  home last night about 6 so the sisters had an interruption to their plans...but they took it in stride.  My BIL never sent me anything just a card it was a nice card tho....and my aunt and uncle both in their 80's now never  sent cards, so things are changing all the time.  

3 lumps of coal..;0/

Today I cleaned out the fridge...got rid of the half eaten jars of this and that...felt good but sorry to know glass is not being recycled in our center anymore.  Feels horrible to toss glass into the trash bin..