I’ve been more than remiss in communication.
As you may know I had round #2 with cancer–breast cancer—which I got out of with a lumpectomy and no complications, but — radiation, etc. and as many as 8 doctor visits a month….which kind of takes the starch out of you. Just not enough energy to get to things….
And ‘things’ have sadly included WWAS….FB’s been a little easier, because there I just react.
But WWAS has been, well, — I haven’t had the energy to spare. I was going great guns on the next book until the second cancer round, and I’m ABOUT getting enough energy to take it up again—but—
Anyway, still love you all. It’s just been weird. I’ve always had energy to spare, and it’s hard to pace myself when I don’t.
Not for want of caring.
Best to all of you. Profound apologies for those who’ve tried to get onto this page that I haven’t had the strength to go through (literally: I’m not kidding: 14,000 emails (most from Russia and Albania) to try to sort out legitimate new members. I hate loose bots! Anyway, I’m doing all right, trying to bounce back from the second bout and the radiation, just not as much spring in the bounce as I used to have; and hoping that I won’t have a third. Genetics says I have a proclivity to this kind of problem—but I think I’ve had my statistical share now, if you please!
Love you all.
—CJ
Indeed, a Happy New Year to all salads!
Our God-Daughter came over this afternoon because she couldn’t on Christmas Eve (when she traditionally does) and has just left. I had a fun time baking popovers and pulling out the remains of the Christmas cookies I had made and we dined in front of a fire. I think we only do a fire in the fireplacewhen she comes over and asks for it. We should do them more often but normally a chair piled high with books and project bits sits in front of the fire place (it’s a pretty tiny house and waaaaay to many books and projects, storage space for which we ran out several years ago. Cleaning now consists of shuffling the books, etc. from one spot to another).
Last week through Christmas & Boxing Day was cold & snowy; unusual these years to have snow on the ground for Christmas in the Boston area. Yesterday it turned quite warm and the snow has melted into a heavy fog and dripping water. Perversely, that warmth makes for much better weather for a fire because the fire sucks so much air through the unsealed spaces of our old, uninsulated house… and then let’s so much heat out the flu-open chimney that we actually didn’t have a fire on the frigid Christmas Eve as we had originally planned.
Happy New Year, Salads! Maybe ’25 won’t be as bad as we fear?
After all the noise last night scaring off the evil spirits, I awoke this morning only to discover when I got online, no such luck!
I hope CJ and Jane are okay. It’s been a while since they’ve posted here; are they still posting on FaceBook? Maybe they’re just annoyed or depressed at the current state of affairs in the US. Even Canada, the most calm and mild-mannered neighbor, scolded us!
And ugh! My dishwasher, after performing flawlessly for 4 or 5 years, developed a leak. After research, I determined that the most likely cause is a flaw in the sprayer arm, which now flings water under the door where the gaskets can’t divert it. I have a new part on order, which will hopefully correct the problem.
The power transformer for the apt building I live in blew out at 5:15 Tuesday morning. (I checked the clock – I have battery-powered clocks, from experience with 0-dark-hundred power outages.) They got it replaced in 8 hours, including waiting for the suction truck to show up and remove all the oil from the old transformer. I think the explody one was all of 30 years old.
Yes, CJ is posting a lot on Facebook, political & personal. She (and Jane, I gather) are doing well now. They are trying a new diet; cats are well, bonsai tips are being shared. In December, CJ was essentially poisoned by the medical establishment when they gave her an injection to do some procedure (I think) but she turned out to be severely allergic to the injection. That took many weeks of pain and counter procedures/medications to bring her back to normal functioning, including getting back into her fun, Oculus exercise routine. Oh, and she and Jane are slowly taking down their Christmas decorations.
…I’ll see if I can repost some of her more personal life updates from Facebook over the next few days.