HAPPY NEW YEAR

Well,  2014 is starting with storms and soft temperatures which is unlike the usual weather for January.
We were expecting frosts and snow and cold days and chilly breath, and instead it is windy, wet, wild and warm (ish). Ah well,  I guess the year is starting off as it means to go on; being unpredictable!

How was the new year for you? Mine was quiet as is usual when one has pets that dislike fireworks.
The cats were quite lively this year despite having their calming pills from the vet. I barely noticed them working this time, but we survived. And now it is the major clear out of the year!!! I have been avoiding tackling the attic for three years now, so my resolve is to face it, chuck it, sell it, give it away, and keep only those things that are essential or vital to my well being and sanity. Im not very good at it, I have to say, and have hoarded so many things unnecessarily over the years that I have got to be strong and not sentimental this time . . .once and for all!

Today has not been a good one, so I suppose I am writing this in a bit of a dip. It had been going well, and then boom, suddenly all change. I feel disheartened right now, but after a good nights sleep hopefully things will appear in a better light in the morning.

Still undecided about my ONE LITTLE WORD for 2014.
One came to me before the end of the year but has now disappeared since I fear my short term memory is not as good as it used to be. Or is my head so full of other things that I have sifted it back into the far recesses and it will reappear once I have found the space to accommodate it again? I think that's it.

I am reading a great book about 5 pensioners in an old peoples home who decide that life in prison is better than where they are living, so go on a robbery in order to get convicted and sent down. Needless to say, things went well up to a certain point but are not looking so rosy at the half way stage of the book!!!!! I am sure they will have a happy ending, so I will shortly be climbing into my cold bed, turning off the light and settling down with my kindle for another burst of fiction in order to free my mind of all the other nonsense and eventually be able to drift off to sleep.

Night, night then.
Sue xx