Thank you, Floater, Llama, Liza & Rob
It's the New Year everywhere except for where you are, Rob I think.
I had a rough old end of the year yesterday, but consider myself very grateful. I am grateful for just about everything really. I may have lost my reading glasses, & dented the car getting back in the garage after my return trip into town retracing my footsteps looking for them, but.....
I am so fortunate. I could list all of the things that I am grateful for, but it's a
really long list.
I rang G to fish out my old glasses from my golf bag so I do have some reading glasses & the dent doesn't matter. It's just another dent- more a scrape.
So many of my friends are on their own as their husbands have died.
I actually had a lovely day yesterday & had some lovely exchanges. One woman I met, who was an interstate tourist kept telling me how kind I was. All I had done was chat with her & asked about her dog & then asked if I could give it some dog treats. We sat together on a park bench, giving our dogs a few treats & chatted for a while & I think she said "you're so kind" 3 times until I said "surely this is normal kindness" to which she said, "it should be." I love talking to strangers. I went into the newsagents to ask if anyone had found my glasses & as I was walking away a very tall, lovely-looking guy in motorbike gear, was calling my name in a querying way. He had recognised my voice. He gave me a great big hug & asked how G & I were going & how "the boys" were & asked me to say hello to them. It had been years & years since we saw one another & I couldn't for the life of me remember who he was. He had the loveliest big smile & was genuinely pleased to catch up. It frustrated me like crazy not being able to remember him, & I tried so hard to explain his looks & manner to G. He had a soft, gentle voice, called me by an abbreviation not many people used.....etc & then at about 11.30 last night I remembered his name. G would never have guessed as he didn't know he rode a motorbike. G used to play 8-ball with him & our 2 sons in a team down the coast.
We know so many lovely people from our 18 years in the pub & I am going to have to come up with a way of getting their names. I might just tell the truth & say I struggle with remembering names until long afterwards. It will be embarrassing, but not remembering quite who they are is worse I think.
I'll finish this post & come back later I think. It's time to log my food meticulously & I am having a "dry" January. Going into 2024, minus 10 kg would be a very good thing!