To healther, happier times!

Let's change it up for the better in 2021

Jan 16, 2021

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Nothing happened this Christmas, thank goodness!

Nobody woke up hungover on December 26th because getting drunk is the only way to endure Christmas with Uncle X, Grandma Y, or Cousin Z. A visiting cat didn’t knock one of our favorite ornaments off of the tree, smashing it to smithereens.

We avoided pretending to like our coworkers’ loathsome Secret Santa gifts. No one humiliated us by snoring open-mouthed through midnight Mass. Our families have been spared jaw-dropping credit card bills due to overspending to impress out-of-town guests.

Food servers, actors, and musicians spent Christmas at home for once. Countless arguments, car accidents, and heartbreaks were avoided. And, best of all, if the kids didn’t make it home for the holidays this year, it was because they do care about us. Christmas 2020 had a bright side. Let’s remember what worked this year in planning for 2021.

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Every January we think about making changes, particularly when the previous year didn’t go so well. Much of what happened in 2020 was beyond our control, and I suppose much of 2021 will be, too, but there are things we can do differently that might make a positive difference in our lives.

Some are participating in Dry January, a health initiative that encourages us to abstain from booze for one month to pause and examine the nature of our relationship with alcohol. I stopped drinking two months ago, because I realized I was stress drinking due to a situation that wasn’t going to go away anytime soon. Being an old broad with a family history of cancer and Alzheimer’s, it’s also a bad idea for me and the old bottle to get too chummy. It was easy to stop and I don’t miss it. I don’t know if this is forever, but it certainly is for now.

Not drinking should help my next initiative to lose some weight. Not a very original idea, but I figure I should take advantage of the added incentive that my weight puts me in a high risk category for COVID-19. When a cheeseburger may stand between you and certain death, it’s a good call to put down the cheeseburger.

Here are a few links to some of my new stuff as well as some old stuff. I want to thank you for your support. I hope we all get access to the vaccine soon, so we can back to seeing friends and family that mean so much to us.

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