Sunday Salon/Sunday Post - January 4, 2025: Happy New Year

Happy 2026! It's already shaping up to be a good year. I've had an odd sense of...contentment? so far, and have been practicing being in the moment. I'm doing the tasks I need to do, and moving on (especially at work). I suppose it's kind of 'let them,' though I haven't read the book. 

Our son, unfortunately has been under the weather since new years day, so please send him all your good juju for a quick and complete recovery. School starts back for him tomorrow, but I don't think he'll be up to it quite yet. He's very worried about his absences, as we got tickets to a concert in the spring that will require him missing a day (it's a Sunday night concert, out of town). The administration also said they are not allowed to attend the trip for their grade if they have too many absences. But with a doctor's note for whatever time he needs off now, we'll figure it out.

I'm kicking off with a great commitment track record and joining in Sunday Salon with Readerbuzz, and Sunday Post with the Caffeinated Reviewer. Check the math - that's 100% participation for 2026!

What I'm reading this week:

I just finished The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia last night and LOVED it! Five out of five stars from me, and hoping to get the review up later today. We'll see what I start on my kindle when I go to cozy me, almost-bed, time tonight. I'm still reading The Secret Courtesan by Kerry Chaput in print, and really enjoying that too.

Three Good Things:

1. We got our spring concert tickets for our son and me! He is SO excited!! Still need to book transportation and a hotel, but baby steps. Everything will definitely be coming from separate paychecks. Hahahaha....
2. I'm loving my new planner :) I spend new years day adding lots and lots of birthdays and the school calendar dates for the rest of this year, then added the work holidays once I was back in the office on Friday. I want to try and use the goals/habits pages more, and track my savings/paying down debt.
3. I finally got my nails done again! For nearly four weeks, they were red with a cat-eye finish (super cool!), but I went in on Friday and got them filled and fixed up with 'cherry bomb' - a red/pink glitter shade. They look great again :)

Three Goals for this week/month/whatever:

1. Keep working on my home office. LOL Although it's feeling like a bit of 'burnt toast' theory now. Since it wasn't done, I read a post a few days ago about an exchange student needing housing and said to myself, "That would be cool - I'll hurry up my office and see if she needs us." Then, son has this virus, and who knows if we'll get it next. We don't need another body here right now. So the office will get done, but more likely in the right time. OH - burnt toast theory is something our daughter frequently references - if you're running late because you burned the toast, what if it's the universe shifting your schedule just a bit so you miss something horrific, or end up at the right place/right time for something wonderfully awesome?
2. I've told my family we have two goals before our daughter heads back to school at the end of the week. Goal one is cutting the cats' claws. They desperately need to be trimmed, and she's the best at it.
3. Goal two is redoing our curio cabinets. I have two curio cabinets from my grandmother, and I'd like them to represent our whole family as they want to be represented. So while everyone is home, we divvy up the shelves and display what we want displayed. Right now, it's the stuff I put in there when the kids were mall. Some baton twirling medals/trophies, a shelf about hubs & my Germany travels, a shelf with old wedding stuff.... I want everyone to put away what's in there and fill it with what we want to see from our lives.