JANUARY RECAP

The New Year started with rain.  I made a pork roast, it was a nice day to just read and relax.

Jan 2  -Went to TJ's and had Cane's for lunch

Jan 3 -8 years since I became a widow. Went to In'n'Out. Talk to Sandy.

Jan 4 -Still raining. Blue Apron. Lulu hides behind couch.

Jan 5 - Lizzie to Kaiser. Face time with Sandy. Reyes Magos, Lizzie remembered.

Jan 6- Sandy made bread :) I made corn chowder.

Jan 8 -Take off Xmas decorations. Krunch burger.

Jan12 -Lizie to Dr. Talk to Monica and Sonia, ongoing dramas. Made chile rellenos.

Jan13 -Hair appointment, shorter, cute.

Jan14 -Cancelled dentist. To Corazon Restaurant in Fullerton. Weird hours.

Good Margarita flight

Waiting for Corazon to open

Jan19 -To Kaiser, closed! to Cane's, closed! Went to Northgate. Fun. No sleep day.

Jan20 -Lizzie to SD.

Jan21 -Lizzie to New Orleans with Lindsay. Made canalones but had no milk!

Jan22 -Rain. Fitbit warned me of low heart rate. Made tortilla soup.

Jan23 -Made goulash, talk to Norb and Monica.

Jan25 -Lizzie back from NOLA :)

Jan26 -Sandy fell and broke her wrist!!!  Had my blood tests at Kaiser

Jan28 - Sandy surgery. It went well. Nuri went home. Made enchiladas.

Jan29 -Went to Vinny's, we won't go back!

Jan30 -Lizzie to San Diego

Jan31 -Talk to Sandy, feeling a bit better.

BOOKS I'VE READ IN JANUARY

MOVIES I'VE WATCHED IN JANUARY

...AND NOW ON TO...

Health Data

Avg blood sugar 130

Avg Blood Pressure 134/76

Weigh 177

Test results - all within normal range

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 I want to incorporate some of my PSP creations in the blog. Here's some :)

Cute

Goth

Fantasy

My day so far, and a disclaimer

 This morning I woke up at 9AM. Got up and stepped on Lulu, she was sleeping right by my bed, I started to get dressed, but stepped on a wet spot...and there was  a little farther on the rug. My fault! she's used to go outside to do her business earlier.  After cleaning I took her outside, then fixed her and my breakfast. 

I decided I would start cooking for the week. I ground my last piece of carnitas and added some chicken, to make croquetas. Before  that I decided to make a coca de llardons (chicharrones) typical of Lent in Catalunya. I had fun doing it and it looked good and tasted good. 

with the other half of the puff pastry, I decided to make "orelletes" or palmiers. I made some last week and they turned out nice. Not this time. They sort of burned! :(

On to making croquetas... halfway  I changed my mind and thought I'd make canalones instead, it's basically the same. I saute onion and added the ground meat, the flour, and the milk. I had 2 cartons of milk, one less than half dated December 25, the other full, had never been opened, dated January 2026. I tasted the old one, and it was fine, so I used the rest of it. Then I cooked the canalones (just 8, 4 for today and 4 for tomorrow), put them in a clean towel, and filled them. Now, to make the white sauce, I melted the butter, added the flour, opened the new milk, and poured out a cup. IT WAS SOUR!!! So much work for nothing lol

No dinner tonight, very annoying! I called Lulu to go outside, no Lulu around. I went room by room calling her, no Lulu. Finally, I found her under/behind the desk in my room, all the way down, hard to see lol

I will have some jamon y queso and potato chips for now. Tomorrow maybe I'll try making the goulash, or the  chicken tortilla soup. Or both.

DISCLAIMER

I think both Republicans and Democrats suck

I think most conservatives, liberals, magas, progressives, etc. are full of it.

I think most people have no common sense. They need to think before they act.

And so on.

Therefore, I will not read, or comment, or discuss, anything to do with politics. 

So be it. 

Happy New Year 2026

 

BOOKS I'VE READ IN 2025

(for some reason I forgot to keep track this month)

MOVIES I'VE WATCHED IN 2025

(mostly Christmas movies and series)

DECEMBER RECAP

 

December was a full month of good and not so good happenings

Dec. 1   -Hasse, my sister Mia's husband passed away at 84 after a long illness.

Dec. 2   -Dr. Noda -Covid shot. The Green Chile

Dec. 5  - Lizzie to San Diego

Dec. 5  - My aide, Darlene, passed away in Idaho.

Dec. 7  -Decorating the house. Gingerbread decorations.

Dec. 8  -Outdoor decorations. Pho.

Dec. 9 - Dermatology @Anaheim. Biopsy black dot. Lizzie to San Diego.

Dec. 10-Mary at Hospice care.

Dec. 11-DMV driver's license. Off Street Cafe. Talk to N.

Dec. 12- Sandy's Retirement!

Dec. 13- Baby party at Nick's, Taco truck. Invite.

Dec. 15-Sandy arrived! - 12 Sixty Restaurant.

Dec. 16- Girls walk. German town Huntington Beach. Biergarten dinner. Xmas Market.

Dec. 17- My 82nd Birthday. San Juan Capistrano-Sundried Tomato Rte. Mission.

Dec. 18- Girls walk. Il Gatto Happy Hour.

                            Dec. 19- Girls walk. Cooking. Zumaya's. Whittier walk around.

Dec. 20- At home. Canalones. Talk.

Dec. 21- Take Sandy to LB Airport.

Dec. 22-Nuri @hospital. Stomach ulcer and fall.

Dec. 24- Rain. Talk to nieces. Fettuccini.

Dec. 25- Rain. Christmas. Nice gifts :) Sopa de galets, turron

La familia en Utah

Dec. 26- Rain. Leftovers. Cookies from Amy.

Dec. 27- Rick visited Mary. Dame Mas.

Dec. 30- Mary passed away at 83, in Prescott, AZ

Dec. 31- End of 2025 - Lulu spa visit- Croquetas.

NOVEMBER RECAP 2025

Happy Birthday Lizzie 

The hot days seem to be over. It's getting cooler and rainy. 

Nov. 5  -Went to the podiatrist, my feet are fine, but my blood pressure was very high, it scared me.

Nov. 7 - Went back to Best Buy to get my computer. Later, to Dame Mas.

Nov. 8 - PSP PC @ Office - New Big PC in my room.

Nov. 9 - Lizzie gardening all morning. On her way to go grocery shopping she fell down the porch steps. She's OK.

Nov 10 - To Kaiser to check my blood pressure, high. Crumbl and TJ's

Nov.13 - We went to do a little shopping @ Marshalls and had lunch at The Habit.

Nov. 14-15-16 Heavy rains.

cozy in the house

Nov.16  L felt sickly for 3 days :(

Nov. 19- Lizzie's Birthday!!! dinner at Il Gatto

Nov. 23 Got my winter clothes out of the shed.

Nov. 24  To the Dentist. Need  2 extractions but lots of work $$$$$ maybe next year.

Nov 26 To Black Angus for pre-Thanksgiving celebration

Nov 27 THANKSGIVING. Walk in the park with Lulu.

NOVEMBER MANTEL

BOOKS I'VE READ IN NOVEMBER

MOVIES I'VE WATCHED IN NOVEMBER

and now...

OCTOBER 2025 RECAP

I bought a new computer and I'm trying, with help, to learn about it

10-1  Went to Crumbl and Dame Mas.  

10-2 Like every Thursday, I talked to Sandy :)

                                                       10-3  Gave a bunch of shoes away. 

10-4  Decorate house for Halloween

10-6  Had a FLU shot, and a blood test, all is well. Video talk with the girls.

10-8  Made chicken paprikash. Talk to N.

10-8  Best Buy new 27' PC.  Lunch at Amor y Tacos

10-14 It rained!  The weather has been hot.

10-15  Happy Hour at The Cauldron

10-17 L was sickly today

10-18 Lulu's  14th Birthday!

10-22 To Lascari's for lunch, then Porto's

10-23 Discovered new sandwich bread at TJ's. Made Brie and Ham sandwiches

10-24 L to San Diego

10-27  Lunch at Reunion Restaurant in Brea. So many mistakes. Got free BLT (with tomato)

10-30  Happy Hour at El Sol Restaurant in Whittier.

                                         10-31 L finished the Halloween puzzle! Great job :)

10-31  HALLOWEEN! many trick or treaters this year. It was fun. L was Scrooge :)  Pizza.

What a witch!

BOOKS I'VE READ IN OCTOBER

MOVIES I'VE WATCHED IN OCTOBER