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How is the world treating everyone?  It's looking pretty shitty for some this new year.  One of my pet peeves is the way talking heads bemoan the worlds problems, with "news" outlets (yes FOX, I mean you) filling precious air time with blah, blah, blah and yada yada.  Enough.  And celebrity family tragedies.  Yes, they are tragic, but they are not the only families that suffer day to day.  It is a good reminder that fame and money doesn't = happiness.  It is still in the thick of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and here in the usually lovely Northwest of the US nature is showing all who is in charge.  Flooding, avalanches, mudslides and earthquakes are but a few of the delights that are starring in our evening news footage.  At least we have gotten rid of the absolutely bone chilling temps. At least for now.  The area I live in boasts 300 days of sunshine a year.  What the neglect to tell newcomers is that all of the other 65 days are foggy and icy.  Or frozen rain, or snow or near hurricane force winds.  Yes, it is a lovely place.

Sorry for sounding so "cheerful".  DH has just had his first surgery for the year.  Right hand carpel tunnel repair.  Later this month he will have right rotator cuff surgery and then a bit later on the other wrist.  He tells me he will be off of work for about 5 months.  If he lives that long!!!  Not really.  It's just that after over 20 years of him doing the same type of shift (he's a firefighter) you kind of get to like having a day to yourself.  I will also be his right hand for a couple of days with all that entails.  Lucky for him after 30+ years we've seen each other at our asolute worst and best and been there to help the other through it.

Have any of you made resolutions???  I don't officially write or announce my intentions.  Less of a heartache when things don't happen as I'd hoped.  However, this year I hope to do something about this craptorium of a house.  I am a bit of a hoarder and unfortunately I'm married to a pack rat as well.  Between the two of us and raising a couple of kids and countless animals we have accumulated a fair amount of what can only be called rubbish.  As I am now officially over 50 I have to figure out a way to de-clutter before I end up like those old people buried under newspapers and magazines.  It really is a burden.  I know the shit needs to be tossed, but getting it through to the follow through is horrendous.  He's as bad as I am.  Between the two of us, we have probably lost more tools than most people ever own to begin with.  And I do love gadgets.  Of all kinds.  It's a sickness when one of your favorite places is a hardware store or salvage yard.  Oooooo, look at all the things you can make other things with!!!!  Or, I might need that one of these days for that project I've been thinking of for the last 25 years.    Guh.  But then, I look at folks how own no books, not hobbies, no anything and I think "How boring" are these people.  Nothing to learn or think about for them anymore.  What do they Do??   I don't  have the faintest idea. 

Oh well.  At least I've started to declutter.  Got rid of the old furniture and replaced it with some nice new stuff.  Leather sofa and love seat.  It looks great, if only I had a bit more room.  Maybe it's time to get rid of the 101 year old piano.  Except that the case is beautiful with ivory keys which is one of the reasons I bought it in the first place, plus the girls were taking lessons.  Hmmmmm. What to do, what to do