I had a good Christmas and Christmas eve. M went over to his sister's in the afternoon of Christmas Eve because that was when the grandkids were there.. He filmed them with the lion rocker and the oldest with the mermaid tail blanket he got her. She is so cute. She was trying to get into standing up and declares "mermaid ! I'm a mermaid!"

And both girls loved the lion rocker.

After work we went over to his brother's and instead of nearly 30 people there it was only around 10. So we got to pet and play with their cats and visit with them. Very low key.

Went to Moms on Christmas Day. We ate, I fought with her tv trying to get Discovery Plus up so we could watch some Tournament of Champions Christmas special. She has a very expensive Lg Smart TV and half the apps don't work on it like Hulu. She got a Fire stick trying to stream the cable company's cable options but that doesn't have the sports channels and she got YouTubeTV which she hates because she couldn't get Hulu to work on the fire stick. I got Hulu to work so I'm going to get her setback up with that but Discovery wouldn't load on the Fire stick.

Work was ok Christmas Eve. They had one of the assistant managers outside the door at 5:50 telling people we were closed. Someone got mad around 5:57 and was filming and yelling about false advertising.

When I left after 6 there were people pulling into the parking lot and realizing we were closed.

The only real drama was bitter coworker who works in the back was supposed to work her regular shift Christmas Eve but she left around 9 (she works 4-1) and didn't tell anyone . No one has any idea where she was. They called her and she claimed the HR person said it was ok . I don't know about that but to just leave and not say anything is wild. No one was happy with her .

Happy, Happy Birthday to Jesse, and Theo, and Rayne!

We had a very low key Christmas, the highlight of which was dinner at my cousin's, which was lovely. Filet roast, which is my fave and what I like to make for NYE, but I'm not doing this year, so yay for getting it in anyway!

Met the newest baby -- my first cousin, twice removed. She is an absolute cutie.

Today is light physical chores and medium light finance stuff. Also prepping for 2026... what do I want to do, etc. A good deal of the 2025 list will be transferred over! It's mostly fun stuff, so not stressful.

a little laundry, washing some dishes, breaking down Amazon boxes for recycling and getting them out of the house,

I need to do all three of these, though I have to give credit to Matilda for running the last several cycles through the dishwasher. But I still have pots and pans and champagne flutes and cutting boards to clean.

I just succumbed to a Boxing Day Sale and got a cool Osaka Tigers baseball jacket marked down to $150 from $600.

Woot!

Baseball xmas prezzies this year: Emmett got an autographed baseball by Buster Posey from the 2010 WS championship, and Matilda got an Osaka Tigers jersey. (She lived in Osaka while she was studying in Kyoto.)

Oh nice gifts!

I weighed at Mom's and I think I weighed myself over there sometime in Nov. I didn't record it but in July I was at 218. The last time I weighed I think I was 222. And now I'm at 216. I noticed my pants are a lot looser. I haven't had a big change in my eating since the fall so I'm not sure about the weight loss. I have an annual physical...sometime in Jan and I'll be interested to see my weight then and also if he does blood work what it shows.