Greeting the New Year, 2010

Written January 7, 2010

Can't believe we're ten years into the millennium. Writing a 20.... doesn't seem so strange anymore!

Ed and I tended Kimball (overnight) on New Year's Eve. He went to bed at 9:30 and I followed at 10:30 p.m. Good thing. He woke up at 2:00 a.m. on New Year's Day. I tucked him into bed with me and he went back to sleep, but I didn't. Ed did look out his window at midnight and watched the neighbor's fireworks across the street. Well, maybe next year we'll do a party, when Ed isn't so sick.

We are into the "Medicare" thing. Spent the whole day yesterday (no fun) sorting, organizing, and adding up all our 2009 medical bills--info we need in order to apply for VA benefits for Ed. The folder is about two inches thick (there were a lot of bills.) If he gets accepted, we think it will save us a ton of money on premiums, co-pays, prescriptions, future surgeries, etc. If not, then another bout of surgeries like we've experienced these past 15 months would break us.

I want to go hiking in the worst way, but the inversion this past week has created terrible air quality. So, I settle for Step Rebok (the best workout on the planet, by the way) and a recumbent bike ride. Gained a few pounds this past year indulging in way too many Haugen-Das ice cream bars. Have managed to lose a couple and maintain, but still need to shed a some more.

Have watched some of our Mr. Bean movies--hilarious! Always need a good laugh now and then.

The start of my next project: scanning, editing, and incorporating old photos into family histories. These photos were badly torn and scarred. I cleaned them up with Iphoto tools on my Mac. Eventually will buy a better program for doing editing.

Any guesses who this might be? (Hint: She is very close to me.)

Take a guess at this one. (Hint, a very close relative of mine.)