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December 2024

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  1. Coffee. Freshly roasted, freshly ground, freshly brewed.  The smell of Folgers, in the red, metal can…opened with the green, electric can opener, is a CORE memory for me.    I started drinking coffee when I quit drinking (1/9/00) and am now a snobby addict.
  2. Hearing aids. I’ve had mine for a month. I can hear the frogs out front now…
  3. The green of new grass.
  4. I am perpetually grateful for food that is made for me by others.
  5. The distinct purrs of each of 3 cats.
  6. Everything? Ok…trees.
  7. I was blessed to have a pretty stellar childhood, at least until the divorce when I was 13. Memories of growing up with My Brohim and my revered parents make me happy.
  8. C’mon! That’s a ridiculous question for a Librarian!
  9. The ranch house that I grew up in on a 1/4 acre lot in the middle of Kerman, CA in the 1970s & early 80s.
  10. Coffee.
  11. All winter light celebrations.
  12. Shonda’s homemade chocolate with cinnamon and chile.
  13. The ability to entertain myself.  I don’t know if that’s a Gen X thing, a la “I’ll give you something to do.” or just me, but IMO, when you’re bored, you’re boring. 
  14. Snow on the Sierra Nevada mountains.
  15. I have always adored autumn. I understand other places with 4 actual seasons, but I love when the rain comes to the San Joaquin valley in the fall, turning the golden grass on the hills to their winter green.
  16. My legs that take me everywhere.
  17. That my reinvention of me never ends.
  18. Dang! Another ridiculous question! This time for an Artist!
  19. When I pet Emily, then try to move away, she reaches out her white paw and touches me in hopes that I’ll stay.
  20. My Matt
  21. These Are Days by 10,000 Maniacs
  22. The stories of my family & me. Like how they left baby me with my godparents while they went to Disneyland.
  23. Traditionally, My Brohim and I are in contact with each other on xmas day. Anything more than that is frosting with sprinkles, baby!
  24. I’m supposed to wax poetic about how challenges make you stronger, but I’m not quite feeling that right now TBH.
  25. Every moment laughing with Matt.
  26. Making art with acrylic paint.
  27. My hearing aids are  very small.
  28. A zoom meet with my Art Folks.
  29. Emily Doll Starr
  30. I’m very good at finding things.
  31. NEW YEARS EVE. I enter 2025 absolutely grateful for my little life.

Stuff & Things

Therapy tonight (you’re welcome)

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I’ve been in therapy with Dr. Susan for 3 years this May. We generally meet (via phone, currently) every other week. When we were able to meet in person, we’d have coffee, and sometimes, the best Hawaiian burger at George’s Giant Hamburger in Walnut Creek.

Susan knows me very well by now, and I am heard and helped every time she and I speak.

She noted that I have CHOSEN not to worry about things that are not in my control. This is a great thing for me as I have generally been an, “I can fix it!” type of person.

“Fixing” things is an asset at work as a Librarian, but I was inclined to take it just a BIT too far, at times.

My regular routines are very good for me and I have little concern about changes I may have to deal with.

I can handle it.

If I can’t, I’ll find someone who can.

That’s how I roll.