February Happenings

 I'm bad at writing my blog. L has been writing all month about Black History, and S is very good about posting often. Me, not so much.

One of the reasons is because of the pandemic, my days seem to morph into the next and so on. Wake up late, walk around the garden with L and Lulu, have a talk with L about how our day is looking, check my email, do some PSP, check FB and IG, then lunch, nap or garden or read or watch TV or all of the above. Then dinner which L cooks, or I cook or is take out, and back to watching TV or reading or doing PSP. At night I usually watch a movie or two or some Netflix show, then I play with TikTok, and usually go to bed around 2 or 3.

I got my second plant from S's gift. It's a nice rex begonia. We also started getting oranges from our tree to make OJ, so sweet!

This month so far has had a couple different things. The main one is I got my first Covid vaccine Feb 10 at Kaiser, Tustin. It went very smoothly. I also went to several stores and did a little shopping. Went to Sketchers with L and got a cute pair of shoes, and had a Thai lunch to go from Renu Nakorn, with my favorite dessert of sweet rice and mango.

We had a nice Valentine's blue apron dinner, and a nice little gift from my neighbor Amy. This week we had a lot of take-out, just simple things like Mc Donalds, Popeye, Puffy Taco, Panera etc. On the 17 L had a migraine and spend the day resting, and then on the 19th it would have been my, and also Norbert's 65th birthday. I didn't feel well all day and spent most of all day napping. I also talked to S and it was nice. Today I feel OK :)

So that's about what's going on. Now it's 11PM and I'm trying to find a good movie to watch.

Be well.

January Recap

 I may be getting used to being at home. I have my routine and I like it for the most part. Of course, the bad things are not being able to see Sandy, and Tristan, and not being able to travel even short trips.

Some January happening. We had a mini shopping day at Marshall, and that's always fun. Norbert came by and took the Xmas lights down and helped around a little. We cleaned the garage and I bought a leaf blower to keep it clean. I will be painting and gardening etc. on the big counter.

Weather-wise it's been crazy. Very hot one day, lots of rain, cold, windy, and sunny some other days. 

Sandy has been having his January cold, it lingers :( She also got a new dog Harley, and I got an English Ivy she sent me (a new plant for 3 months) I'm planting lots of succulents too.

I'm feeling good and I am getting used to my longer hair, I even got some compliments in FB, lol

Lizzie and I do our shopping biweekly and we take turns cooking. It's working well :)

MOVIES I'VE WATCHED THIS MONTH

BOOKS I'VE READ THIS MONTH

Politics

Mid January

 For me personally, this month is being very nice so far. I've been doing some shopping in Amazon, just things I needed, like a waffle maker, a battery organizer and tester, garden pots, leaf blower, clock and more. I'm also turning parts of the garage into a "studio" for painting and playing, and also a gardening area, where I keep gardening stuff. Lizzie and Norbert helped me clean the garage, also we put the Christmas things away.

Lizzie and I also went to Marshall for Reyes Magos and had a little shopping spree. I got a couple of tops, some Godiva chocolates, stuff for Lulu, and some other things. It was fun.

I'm very much looking forward to Spring, and getting some more plants and replacing/propagating some of the older ones. I have become more interested in succulents since Sandy got me a gift of succulents, now I look for different pots to put other succulents in. My neighbor Amy also gave me 2 big succulents.

I also got a plant of the month gift for Christmas, thanks to Sandy, and is fun because it comes with a plant, a vase, and everything is included.

This is a random post, but that's what I'm doing now. Gardening, eating, watching TV, doing PSP, reading and chilling.

You all take care, love you. Be well!

December Recap

 I will do a quick recap of December, and later I will do a recap of 2020. 

The month started with some appliances needing replacement: New refrigerator, and new water heater. I also had to have my kitchen sink unclogged.

We decorated the house inside and Norbert came and put the lights outside. All is merry and bright. We also drove around to see the decorations around the neighborhood.

There were some celestial happenings: The great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn during the winter solstice, a meteor shower,full moon on Dec 29 called The Wolf Moon. And weather-wise, we had a GREAT storm on the last week of 2020. Thunder, lightning, hail storm. Very rare. We also had some 85F days.

It was also the month of my 78th birthday, December 17th. That makes me a full-fledged senior citizen ;) I had face to face calls from Mia, Nuri , Sonia and Sandy. Very nice.

We had a nice Christmas the 3 of us. We enjoy gardening daily,(my new garden of succulents are thriving) talking to Sandy on Mondays, It was fun getting presents for both my birthday and Christmas. Thank you girls!

MOVIES I'VE WATCHED IN DECEMBER

BOOKS I'VE READ IN DECEMBER

I didn't reach my goal of reading 77 books, I made it to 75

Goodbye 2020 - Welcome 2021

Sunset and Full Moon

 Ever since the pandemic started to be noticed by me, in March 2020, I have hardly gone anywhere. Just to the grocery store (Trader Joe's mainly) and to some other stores. And to get some take out food, many times. I have also drive around town and walked the dog daily. But that's about it.

I have missed going to the beach. So today I told Lizzie that I wanted to go watch the sunset before the end of the year. Sunset now is at 4:50PM, so we left at 4:09 because I had to get a few last minute things, and drove all the way down Valley View. There was a delay in the traffic and we got down to Sunset Beach just at the nick of time to see the sunset. It was gorgeous,you could see Catalina Island very clearly, blue skies, and bright orange as the sun disappeared in the horizon. I was happy.

When we were driving back home, we saw a very bright full moon above us. It was magical. I took a picture of the full moon as seen thru our backyard pergola, which was decorated with Christmas lights.

 

SERENDIPITY

My birthday :)

  I turned 77 years old last December 17. I guess I'm a very senior citizen now! 

When I turned 75, my daughters had a surprise for me, we were going to spend a few days in Savannah, GA, it was a city I had always liked to visit and I was not disappointed. We also went to Charleston and Tybee Island.We enjoyed a lovely stay, great cities, good food (at a beautiful Restaurant on my day), great company!

When I turned 76 last year, they had another great thing planned. We stayed in a very nice hotel in San Diego, with views of the Bay, and went to the Star of India for a great show. Lizzie read a poem and we met all the musicians etc. It was a fun time. We had my birthday dinner at  Ruth Chris's Restaurant and it was incredible

This year, well. We are having a pandemic. We are advised not to travel, restaurants are closed. Sandy wanted to fly down but couldn't because of these circumstances. So it was Lizzie and me, and Lulu. We thought we could go to La Huasteca (I love their Margaritas) but  no outside dining. So we had a steak dinner from Blue Apron, with Freixenet Cava, and chocolate cake. It was very nice. 

My sister Mia called me from Sweden and we had a nice talk, she's looking very well. Then my niece Monica and my sister Nuri called me from San Feliu de Guixols, and as usual, we had a pretty chaotic conversation, Sonia also called, and of course Sandy called too :)  

I had very nice gifts. Sandy gifted me with a DIY succulent garden, that was fun to put together, Lizzie gave me some toe socks, I've been wanting some of them for a while, so fun. An address, internet book, very needed, some yummy cookies and a lovely birthday candle.

Hopefully next year the pandemic will be over and we can spend my 78th together in some cool place :)

Thank you girls!!! :)