Is 2026 Over yet?

Last night, SM gave me two Christmas gifts. I didn’t give her anything and I feel a bit bad about that. Not hugely, because she has everything she wants I believe. Anyway, she gave me a cool mug that has a QR code on it that takes me to a daily trivia question (and answer). And she gave me a really cool immersion blender set! I have always wanted one. I mentioned once or twice that I was envious of hers.

I’m the luckiest

It has been another quiet day here at the chalet. Surprisingly I did accomplish a few things.

I started emptying out the trunk of the car after the trip to Maine. I think I have almost all of the crap out. And I need to get the charging cable out of the back seat of the car. I think the Frunk doesn’t have anything important in it just now. I’ll have to remember to check.

Next, I did some neatening in my bedroom. This is a monthly or even every other month sort of task. The floor is not cord free, otherwise I would run a Roomba in here. I might do it anyway and see what happens. There is a lot of dust in here.

My receipts from last year all went into a plastic bag. I don’t think I need any of those receipts for my taxes. I might need one or two if I didn’t manage to sort them out and put them in the campaign finance drawer. And I started collecting receipts for the new year.

Why do I have a receipt already? I went to the grocery store. I wanted to get my self generated traditional NYE celebration supplies: Sparkling something – sometimes I get sparkling wines, this time I got some sparkling apple juice, Borsin, Smoked Mussels, Fancy Crackers. I also ended up getting some eggs since mine somehow magically got used up while I was gone (I think I still had at least 6 in there – whatever I don’t really care – it is just sad that my boarder said nothing about using them or replacing them). And I bought some curly fries – one can never have enough curly fries – and a frozen pizza that I might well have for dinner tomorrow night.

Tonight, I am making a light pasta and meatballs dinner so I have room to have a NYE type snacking session later tonight. So excited!

Augustus for President: After I get an accounting system – hopefully one that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg – I will go back and enter the expenses into expense sheets and see if I can reconcile the bank balance with all the stuff I spent money on and some of which I reimbursed myself for. I also plan to fill out a hard copy of the FEC forms tomorrow and then see how one enters them online. If I don’t get any farther than actually registering as a candidate for the 2028 elections, I will have gotten farther than most people in an attempt to become President of the US.

I looked on the internet to see how Presidents ranked in terms of IQ. According to the sites I looked at, all the presidents have had decent brains. Even Drumpf. Which was an abosolute shocker to me. One site rated him at 124 to 145. Hahahahaha. I doubt he ever had an IQ higher than 95. If that one is so inflated, I take all the others with a grain of salt as well. I mean, GW Bush had a 135 IQ? Hahaha. No. And Ronald Reagan 130? Again, nope. I don’t believe any of those three’s estimated scores. I may not be the smartest person on the planet (by a long way) but I know that I am smarter than Drumpf, GW Bush and Reagan. (Not combined, but…)

I Knew It!

Maybe I have read the book before. But as soon as I read the beginning of it, I knew who the murderer was. It was still an ok Ed McBain book. And with that, I have read my last book of 2024. I wonder how many I have read. At least five. Maybe 15? 20? I guess I could have kept track, but where’s the fun in that? Oh, right, I like to keep track of things like that. Oh well. Maybe next year.

And this bird won’t sing

My last dash of the year was pleasant enough. Lots of dashes, decent money, no really terrible dashes to either do or turn down. I still think that as long as one has a 100% acceptance rate, each subsequent acceptance ought to add to one’s rate – I would probably be at around 130% at this point. It sure would make skipping bad rides less irksome. One of my rides sent me to Wegman’s to pick stuff up, so I could see when they were closing for the night. 8 pm.

Which meant that I had loads of time after lunching, to go and get my groceries. I had a little list. Most of it was regular stuff – for salads and such. But I also had some things that were just for this “special” occasion. I wanted to get smoked clams, but Wegman’s didn’t have them. They had smoked oysters and smoked mussels. I opted for the mussels. I also got a box with a selection of crackers in it. I do like a bit of variety. And lastly, I got a thing of Borsin. There was a second type of Borsin, but I wasn’t feeling adventurous enough to spring for it. I thought about getting some pointy artichokes, but they were about a dollar more expensive than they have been recently, so I chose not to. Next year, if I decide to have one of my favorite comfort meals (a small piece of steak and an artichoke (plus sundries)), I will splurge on the artichoke. As long as they are pointy.

If I get extra peckish tonight, I still have leftovers from Sunday night’s dinner at Anorah. I went by there yesterday because I saw people go in. I had forgotten that they are open on Mondays, generally. Maybe after they re-open after their break, I will go and hang out there occasionally. Silly of me, but when have I not been silly?

Oh, speaking of silly, I asked my erstwhile helper to come and clean the house. Why? Because she does an ok job and she isn’t very expensive. I want to ask her to look around the house and to let me know what skeeves her out so I can try to mitigate that before my guest comes for a month.

I hope to do a few other things around the house. I might make a list so I can check things off. There are a bunch o things I would like to do. And the new year seems like an apt time to do them! For instance, I might change the shower curtains in the green bathroom. And maybe put down a different bathtub non slip pad thing. We shall see how I feel on my day off tomorrow. Yes, I am taking the first day of the year off.

SM wants to give me a beer subscription or something like that for Christmas. Who am I to disagree? Does anyone know anything about beer clubs?

Tonight my exciting plans are: to do just about everything I often do at night. Though with a tip of the hat to midnight passing and the advent of a new year. Since I am not “with” anyone – nor do I know anyone who seems to be remotely interested in me romantically, I have no desire to set foot out of the house and spend NYE with others. I will keep myself excellent company, I am sure!

Ok, I am done with my last blog of the year, I think. 2024 was interesting. Hopefully 2025 will be slightly less so in some ways, more so in others. Whatever happens, I wish only the best of you and yours!