New Year's Eve

Certainly not looking forward to New Year. Won't be getting any sleep because our dog is cared to death of fireworks. So I will be on the couch tonight, swathed in blankets while Tiger is walking up and down the couch. Hopefully, the Twilight Zone marathon starts tonight. Make sure you have some cash in your pocket

I cleaned the house in preparation for New Year.  I'm terrible at it but I tried. Far from perfect since I am not much of a cleaner. I am more of a wallower in filth. I don't mind dust as long as it's not thick enough to make me sneeze. Again, I will miss my sister . . . like I did this Christmas and our birthday and everyday. I didn't expect to be alone with my dad. (Brother has his own place.) The plan was she would retire early and look after Dad while I was at work for another 4 years until I am eligible for retirement. She paid $30,000 into her pension or rather I lent her the money. She apologized to me about that . . . that she was obviously not going to live long enough to pay me back. Huh . . . its only money . . and my brother made a note that at least I was able to give her the experience of nearly 9 months of retirement. It still makes me sad for her though.

So this New Year's Eve, I got a haircut. (I only go to the hairdresser maybe 4 times a year since I have premature baldness. But she retired so I have to find a new beauty parlor for me and my dad. (My sister and I were going to hack each other's hair as it grew.) That didn't work out . . . it was a hospice nurse who cut my sister's hair for the very last time. She didn't have much but it was getting tangled in knots as she lay there. So she cut it as close to her head as possible. (I should have thought of that :-(. )

Kaiser hospice nurses are very sweet.

Is it New Year's yet? Hopefully I vacuumed enough dust bunnies and poured enough bleach into the toilet bowls. (You know, you really don't have to scrub toilets that hard. Bleach does wonders.)

Happy New Year's! 2014, here I come!