Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Dec 31, 2018 8:37:39 GMT
We had been planning to go to the cinema but the film we had agreed on is only showing at 14:00 so I think Mr FP won’t want to go. Champagne chilling for midnight. Resolutions : take pics of the ‘safe places ‘ I have stashed things.
For the first time in many years I will actually be sad to see this year go. Usually we have had such a terrible year that I have been glad to see the back of it in the hope that the coming year would be better - it never was and was often even more horrendous! However, from the very beginning 2018 has been a pretty good year. Things have gone our way for a change, things have turned out even better than we hoped rather than ten times worse! We started the year expecting to have no option but to sell up and move but we found a way to stay. Both boys have hung in there and got the jobs they wanted - albeit miles away but hey ho! I am desperately hoping that this good year stuff is a continuing trend and not a one off so I am approaching 2019 with cautious optimism.
New Year's resolutions? Nah, they wouldn't last a week so why bother.
Ah EB I really hope 2019 continues the positivity of 2018 for you.
I’m not a fan of New Year. I’m very much a live in the moment girl and always have been. I don’t particularly like looking back but I really don’t like the out with the old sentiment. For me, the New Year starts a bit later. I take the decorations down on twelfth night and welcome in the next year with white lilies in memory of my mum.
I don’t make resolutions as such but for a few years now I’ve written a “what would I like” list and it really helps me to focus on the little things. I do include the bigger things but those are easier to focus on and work for.
One thing I wanted last year was to have regular pedicures. It isn’t a case of money, more a case of time but I did manage it last year and it was bliss. I shall be carrying that on for sure. If I had “written it down” I think it would have still been something I kept thinking “I must do that”.
Spending the evening with an old schoolfriend and her husband, watching fireworks from their balcony and looking at the photos of their recent trip to India which will appear on their tv by the magic of technology. Hoping Mr Nell doesn't fall asleep.........
I would have been Ooop North today but, as he's unwell at the moment, I'll be at home seeing the New Year in on my own. We'll no doubt be chatting via text or on the phone as usual though.
I live in hope of seeing The Mari Lwyd (a pre-Christian tradition believed to bring good luck), at my door. It's a horse skull which takes part in a rhyming battle with villagers around December/ January. museum.wales/articles/2014-06-14/Christmas-customs-The-Mari-Lwyd/
I live in hope of seeing The Mari Lwyd (a pre-Christian tradition believed to bring good luck), at my door.
Try several G&Ts Liv?
NYD is celebrated here, a BBQ is traditional weather permitting, which it is this year. I've given them the option to postpone in case I'm infectious, but they said they are happy to risk it! bugger.. At least I won't be doing the cooking and it will nice and warm round the charcoal lol!