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.