Tuesday, December 31, 2024

GOODBYE 2024

...step in & ring the New Year with a better attitude and outlook kids! 

Let's say good bye to 2024...


Ever notice how we can't wait to say goodbye to the current year to end? Yet when the new year rolls around and by the end of that year we say the same thing again? Can every year be that bad? The one time I really thought that was the two pandemic years. Over those. But overall, I can't complain about any one year, and I love the feeling of the freshness of a new year. And will this year be the start of a new turbulent time for us? Oh I'm sure. But I will try not to let the Party of Rot and Misery rain on my parade.


I hope that 2024 has treated you as well as you deserve. I feel 2024 treated me well and I look back in my many joys in my own life. But the good and bad combined just continue to make and mold us to become stronger and wiser people hopefully. I was surrounded by my heavily democrat and green party family, thanks heavens...good close friends and tight knit circle, continued excellent health, a fact I am proud of... I got my two raises this year, and met some new friends and a few more bloggers. The highlight for me though was my trip to Kenya, a dream come true, and a memory and pure magic moment being able to see and be in the presence of the animals I saw...what an honor. Not to mention to see it's people and a different lifestyle. I will be sharing more, not to worry.


I myself love New Years. While I stopped doing the big club things on the night years ago, I opted for a NYE dinner in with a lavish intimate dinner party and drinks. This year, a few of us are going out for a lovely dinner and then joining the clan at the home of two other friends of ours for a small NYE bash. Warbucks will be overwhelmed with my clan! Thanks heaven he will be there to unzip me tonight! Tomorrow? As always, don't stand between me and my pork and sauerkraut dinner....and a day and night, quite literally of the Mummers!!! I can almost smell it now. After New Years Day the Ann Arbor cousins and Warbucks all depart for home.

 In closing 2024...I'd like to thank the academy for this Os....opps...how did that happen? Id' like to thank you all for all your kind words, supports by commenting, writing, reading and sharing...we have really built together a place to enjoy some visual delights, support, encouragement, and a place of shelter from the more mundane things, and what seems to be a world getting more tarnished and the awful news, which are not always so positive, upbeat or fun. What a joy to have our little online community right? We lost some friends and let's keep several of the bloggers going through some tough days with us and in our good vibe pots. So chin up, stomach in, tits out...we will all get through 2025 together and survive. Cheers Everybody!


I wish us all a Happy, Healthy and Good New Year in 2025!!! Filled with everything and good things for us all.
Happy New Years Eve....

...and may we not find the Mistress like this tomorrow in the morning....

Monday, December 30, 2024

NEW GIRL IN TOWN

 

Another great piece of my youth gone.

Linda Lavin

October 15 1937- December 29, 2024

MOOD BOARD

 

Happy Last Monday of the Year, and it's Mood Boards!!!! 

Another year of Monday Bitch-festering has come and gone. But not much to complain about on this one...Another two-day work week, and Warbucks is still here till after the New Years Day. He and the Mother have gotten along fabulously, if not for some good, fun, old fashioned sparring. I have been cooking dinner most nights, and Warbucks took us and the Duo out of a lovely dinner one night. He saw just about all five sites in Harrisburg before we hit the happy hour Saturday night. The year, let's say, is ending an a few good bangs. More soon....

 How fun is the above picture and its other partner further up? I came across them some time ago, and was shocked to read it was none other than Marilyn Monroe posing as Clara Bow! They were part of a series she did for famed photographer Richard Avedon for Life magazine.

PRESIDENT CARTER

 

The first President I can really remember clearly in my youth. And I surmise the last down to earth, honest, states men and humanitarian, and one of the biggest advocates for peace.  Presidents since should be as lucky to be as beloved as President Carter. Many lessons and things to be learned from listening to Carter.  Now he's with his beloved wife.

" We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of weapons of war."

"We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist one third rich and two thirds hungry."

"If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor. then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't." 

President James Earl Carter Jr.

October 1, 1924- December 29, 2024 

Saturday, December 28, 2024

FROM THE CANDY SHOP

The Mistress knew I had to get one last Candy Shop in for the year. And kids, did I save some of the best for last! This Greek God is Sam Vass. A fitness guru and cake server! Of course, research enough and you'll find the naughtier side to Sam Vass.  He has me quivering in all the right places.  Who are you Sam Vass?  You have slipped into my life, as easily as vermouth into a glass of my gin, quickly and just a bit too smooth.

Friday, December 27, 2024

IN THREE WORDS

In this feature, I'll share a weekly guest with you all, 

and you tell me in only three words what comes to mind.


In Three Words...

Duke Ellington 


Here with one of my favorite versions of the Overture from the Nutcracker. A ultimate, swanky must have for a holiday happy hour me thinks.

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

CHRISTMAS CARDINALS

 


A nice crisp morning today with some usual suspects. 

Happy Christmas!!!

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

CHRISTMAS EVE

 

One of my favorite days of the year, Christmas Eve. There is just something about this day, a calmness of sorts, That I love. This year just about all the decorations are family heirlooms, or decorations I remember us using when I was a wee one, or bits and bobs that were gifted to me. Shiny-Brites, Christmas Pyramids, Swedish chimes, bottle brush trees, and many items bringing about memories of my grandmothers. Tonight, we'll enjoy a dinner of crab imperial. Followed by later in the night the family recipe of egg nog, lighting of the Christmas pyramids, and settle in the watch a Christmas Carol.

Christmas Spirits of Past, Present and Future!
Ready for a long winter's nap? Yep!

It's not about the gift giving, let's remember. Enjoy time with family or friends, enjoying the company of loved ones, good food, and wonderful spirits!!! The scents and smells of the Christmas holiday. May you all have a magical, wonderful, and memorable Christmas. Thank you all, longtime friends, new readers, reader out there in the dark, thank you for your constant kind and funny words and for visiting the Casa du Borghese- truly grateful for all our online friendships. To all of us everywhere, a Happy Christmas to us all my dears.

"L🎄VE & J🎄Y  TO All!

XOXO