I wanted to post this yesterday. Yet life was hectic then. So much has happened. My husband and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. We actually went out to an early supper. We talked and laughed about what has gone on in our lives. I smile at what he has proposed to do. How we can improve ourselves. I come up with suggestions of my own. We reminisce how we met. How we had a small wedding. Got married in the living room, had the reception in the kitchen. Small group of family and close friends.
Fast forward to now. Some family members and friends have passed on. Friends and family members living have scattered across the states. Mike and I are homebodies. We venture outside. Mostly to shop for things like groceries. Get gas for the car. Run errands. Other than that we are inside. He likes to watch football. I like reading books. We both like reading the hometown newspaper. Reading sections of the newspaper to each other . We show each other the projects we are working on. We both take turns cooking. If we are watching a movie. I try and match the food that is shown in the movie. Sometimes I do research on a place that we may never get to visit. It might be in another state or country. So I will cook the regional food and play the music in the background while we are eating.
Later on we play card or dice or board games. I like seeing videos online of board games being played. I sometimes want to play that particular game. So I go to my local gaming store and buy it. It is so nice to have other people to play the games with. I keep saying one day, I will buy a gaming system either the Xbox or Playstation. Instead I will buy another board game. There is a HUGE selection of them to buy in the stores. We like the classics and we like the new ones like Word a Melon, Rory's Story Cubes, Spy Alley, Blank Slate, Truth Be Told.
I smile when I realize it's almost time for others to wake up and face the day. I can send a happy note or a quick text. I work the midnight shift for now. So me seeing the sunrise is a great feeling. I play the music to match my mood when the sun comes up. I also match the music to my mood at other times of the day. I sing at work. Sometimes I sing my own songs. I ask the question to my co-workers, "guess what song is playing in my head right now?"
We have another year ending. So much to do. So little time to do most of what I would like to do. So I will just concentrate on what I would like to finish. Like those 27 New Years resolutions before, I didn't finish 5 of them completely. I am still working on some of them right now. Others I have to buy something in order to finish the resolution. Like learning to play a new musical instrument. I still have to buy a guitar. So here is another resolution I am still working on, learning a new foreign language. Actually I am working on learning 10 of them at the same time. I can now speak one of them like a tourist. I will improve until I speak it like a native.
So what are some of your New Years resolutions? I was told by someone I know. They don't make them because they end up breaking them. That's okay. What works for you? Right now I am looking at my flash cards. So I will make myself a cup of hot cocoa and work with my flash cards. So if I ever get to travel to those countries. i will be able to speak the language like a native. Until th e n here is to the year 2020. May it be better than 2019.
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