A cluttered photo that shows this year’s xmas tree. It is “skinnier” than usual and I am happy with that. Navigating around our usual xmas trees in order to turn the lights off for the night has always been a challenge. We also don’t have a whole crap-ton of ornaments on it. Less is better.

We had guests over here tonight and the GG “wowed” them by playing actual record albums on our 1980s vintage turntable. Other components in this tower (to the right of the tree) are newer and I couldn’t probably tell you what vintage all of them are. But the records we were playing were vintage also, some of them American western stuff my parents bought after WWII (Sons of the Pioneers, etc.), others Irish stuff I bought after we were married. I love Spotify when I can get it to work with our crappy music pods but I indulged the GG tonight especially since he was willing to play DJ.

I remember when we bought that “entertainment center”. It was like $800 for a turntable, radio, cassette player and I fergit what else. At some point we added a music CD player. $800 was a lot of money for us then. Our first daughter was a very small babe in arms when we bought the thing and we were standing in line at an electronics store or whatever, waiting to buy it when she began to get a little fussy. Is she hungry or does she just need to, y’know, suck on something? There were no accommodations available for feeding a baby in that store so I stuck my little finger in her mouth and that did the trick until we could get to somewhere else. I am not anti-pacifier (or anti anything that gets a parent “through the night”) but we chose not to use pacifiers and it worked for us. TMI?

I was pretty insistent that I got to have some chill-out time before bed, i.e., goooo home or Ima gonna let the dogs out. I neeeeeed chill-out time before bed. Otherwise I struggle to settle into sleep. We operate on different circadian rhythms than our friends and there ain’t no way I will ever stay *up* until 5:15 AM or even 2:00 AM. 5:15 AM is when I am beginning to poke my head up for the day.

Two grock stores in the morning and then a bunch of chores and lamb stew for dinner! G’night, KW!

This entry was posted on Friday, January 3rd, 2025 at 11:05 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.