Well, it seems like a good day to put some wrapping around an interesting year.

2022 was certainly, in it’s own way, a lot more even keeled than the prior year. There was no cataclysmic uprooting and moving. We are settled here in the south and have met some folks as the community continues to build up. We have found restaurants we love and some we like, we are more comfortable moving around and finding our way. I remain in love with the weather (most of the time)…the sunshine and much, much warmer temperatures are, for me a plus. The humidity in the summer is a bit off putting, but it used to be humid periodically in CT so it’s not overwhelming. In the winter in CT people go from heated homes to heated cars to heated spaces. In the summer in SC we go from AC homes to AC cars to AC places, but we also do spend time outside more so than in the winter in CT. Abbey THE dog loves the fact that she walks every day, though she does not like the really deep heat on some summer days.

There were two major trips in 2022, one was a wonderful celebration of life for Sue’s dad it was, of course, delayed by over a year due to the Covid nuisance that seems to now be a permanent resident in our lives, even if less scary and intrusive as it was back in 20 and early 21. The other was a 10 day trip back “home” where we celebrated milestone birthdays (both 60 and 70) and a milestone 20th anniversary (though we actually flew home on that day…bad planning?), get togethers with family and many friends all of whom we still wish we were not as far away from and who we miss terribly and frequently.

Aging, frankly sucks…there are so many small things that are simply annoying, I had cataract surgery and no longer need the distance glasses I’ve worn since I was 10, that has been very pleasant, though I still need them to read (not as annoying as I thought it might be). I have allowed my weight to go up, not anywhere near where it was, but I’m disappointed in myself for letting it get to where it’s gone. Part of it, I’m sure, is being more sedentary in retirement, and part of it is adding the happy hour(s) each day. Regardless, while I’m disappointed in myself, I am aware of it and am working as best I can on it.

I’ve not played as much golf as I would have liked, but I did just play yesterday (something else you really can’t do comfortably back in CT most Dec-Jan days), I’ve pretty much stopped running due to a reaction to a tremor drug I took for a while (it worked great, but it made me pretty dizzy so…nope, no go) but I walk at least 2 miles daily so there’s that.

All in all, with all that is going on everywhere, we remain lucky, healthy and happy. I continue to have fabulous kids, who now have fabulous sprouting like weeds, kids of their own…I also, as anyone who’s read prior knows, continue to struggle with the reality of mortality. However, the fact that I still see 19 in the mental mirror continues to fight that.

so….living in (my) eloquence (it’s ) another Auld Lang Syne….