Good Morning!

 It is Saturday! It feels like Sunday! I don’t know why I get my days mixed up so but I am sure it has something to do with being retired and not really having to follow a set schedule.  This will probably only get worse the next school year when we are no longer on after school pick up duty.  Sigh.  How in the world is that going to feel?  Probably not going to feel great.  But, not to worry about that now.

I watched my first movie of 2024 last night.  Nothing current, an old movie that I actually saw in the theater.  I was about 8 or so.  It was “A Summer Place” starring Troy Donahue, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Constance Ford, Dorothy McGuire and Richard Eagen.  Back in the day there weren’t movie ratings and we very often went to the movie as a family and this was no different, it was my mom and me and my aunt and cousin.  However, rewatching last night made me wonder what in the world my mother was thinking, clearly not appropriate for an 8 year old.  She probably figured that I wouldn’t understand it and maybe, at the time, I didn’t but I do know it helped fuel my fear of doctors.

And what brought about this desire to delve into old movies?  I am reading a book called “The Way We Never Were”.  It is a non fiction book discussing the phenomena of the fabulous 50’s and how the era was pretty much designed by the government to help combat the Cold War.  A little out of my realm of usual reading material but it is interesting.  So, according to this book, those fabulous 50’s were pretty much an illusion.  Well, I’ll take it.

I have finished three books of my reading list so far — “Christmas Bliss” which was really the last read of 2023 but since I finished it on New Year’s Day I opted to add it to this years count — “Henry Huggins”, a children’s book popular in the year I was born and “Bright Lights, Big Christmas”, a book that was highly touted on many of the facebook reading forums so I had to give it a go and I wasn’t disappointed.  It was definitely a book to get into, light reading, great scenery, great characterization — all the things.  I have to say I have never read Mary Kay Andrews until the end of 2023 and I think she is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.

Today I am cleaning out some crafting stash.  This is one of those things that I need to get started but am dragging my feet.  So, I am going to set the timer and work for a while and call it done for the day.  I have a taker for the stuff so I need to get busy.  Ugh.  I really don’t like destashing but I need to.  

So, that is it for now!  My 2024 has been very quiet so far and I am enjoying that immensely.  

Have a great Saturday.