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....