Starting Late, Post #1

It's been record-setting cold here in the subtropics for the past week -- since New Year's Day, basically. My poor HVAC system, brilliantly efficient whenever the temperature differential between interior and outside temperatures is less than 25 degrees, has been babied along by my setting the thermostat in the low 60s, which I find uncomfortable especially whilst still coughing from my cold, and I have been glued to the weather apps and the hourly temperature readings.

But now the shift in the jet stream should allow normal temperatures to return, and I can think about the upcoming year.

[shrieks internally]

Work: upheaval, out of my control. I am going to sit down tomorrow morning and jot down my goals for the year, but I'm taking one more day off.

House: my contractor took the week between Christmas and New Year's as time off, which seems fine to me, and then got sick and took off this past week as well. So... will the project ever be finished? Who can say?

Writing: crawling along. I have intentions here, too....

Friends: tea with Freixenet one day, with my friend AE another, and Champagne with my best bud A Friday. Honestly the best part of the week.

May your start of the year be smoother than mine....