Yesterday, Yesteryear
Jan. 1st, 2021 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanOkay - it's New Year's Day, don't be gloomy - you promised!
So we did end up going over to a friend's place last night, as Long-Suffering Partner & I apparently rank in their top 5 friends list, having survived the cull from 10 guests down to 5 for the night. Go us!!
We got home somewhere around 2am after seeing the Sydney fireworks both from quite a distance & on the ABC coverage. It was strange to hear only sporadic shouts of 'Happy New Year" ring out over the neigbourhood - usually there's a huge cheer just as the clock ticks over & the fireworks kick off, but last night was strangely subdued
An understandably slow start to the day & now just filling in time with little things that need doing & minor chores before some sort of attempt at a dinner made up mostly of 2020 leftovers...
As for a recap of this strange year just gone, I don't think I can feel too down on myself for not having achieved the one thing I really wanted to do - which was to find a new job. I have 2 irons in the fire, but am not holding out too much hope, as I've seen the fire doused late in the game too many times... I do need to lose some Covid kilos, as my weight has crept up through the year. I know I'm not doing enough exercise & should stop using mental fatigue as an excuse - tired mind is not tired body
My other main 'resolution' from the year also remained unfulfilled - to play more music, specifically my music with people - but that was definitely Covid19's fault, as it made getting together with people whose schedules had always been busy, next to impossible once travel restrictions, lockdowns & not a little over-caution took their toll on everyone's free time. Including mine. Plans are afoot to bring my music room into the 21st Century, so that file sharing of music pieces & tracks can be done & see if we can write & create over the ether. Having 2 consecutive days off on a regular calendar basis would definitely help there too - see resolution 1 above...
Our noble travel plans for 2020 & 2021 are, of course, in tatters. We started the year with a trip to Japan in our sights, then had to downscale to maybe Tasmania... then maybe the Great Ocean road... okay how about a roadtrip around New South Wales? At least we got to do that back in September... getting close to 3 state borders in the process, but not daring, or even wanting really, to cross them. We have a forlorn hope of a trip to Alaska late this year, but it's looking pretty unlikely... & at the moment all the Australian State Borders are closed to those of us in New South Wales, so maybe we'll have to do another inner-State roadtrip... there are still plenty of places we didn't get to?!
So we did end up going over to a friend's place last night, as Long-Suffering Partner & I apparently rank in their top 5 friends list, having survived the cull from 10 guests down to 5 for the night. Go us!!
We got home somewhere around 2am after seeing the Sydney fireworks both from quite a distance & on the ABC coverage. It was strange to hear only sporadic shouts of 'Happy New Year" ring out over the neigbourhood - usually there's a huge cheer just as the clock ticks over & the fireworks kick off, but last night was strangely subdued
An understandably slow start to the day & now just filling in time with little things that need doing & minor chores before some sort of attempt at a dinner made up mostly of 2020 leftovers...
As for a recap of this strange year just gone, I don't think I can feel too down on myself for not having achieved the one thing I really wanted to do - which was to find a new job. I have 2 irons in the fire, but am not holding out too much hope, as I've seen the fire doused late in the game too many times... I do need to lose some Covid kilos, as my weight has crept up through the year. I know I'm not doing enough exercise & should stop using mental fatigue as an excuse - tired mind is not tired body
My other main 'resolution' from the year also remained unfulfilled - to play more music, specifically my music with people - but that was definitely Covid19's fault, as it made getting together with people whose schedules had always been busy, next to impossible once travel restrictions, lockdowns & not a little over-caution took their toll on everyone's free time. Including mine. Plans are afoot to bring my music room into the 21st Century, so that file sharing of music pieces & tracks can be done & see if we can write & create over the ether. Having 2 consecutive days off on a regular calendar basis would definitely help there too - see resolution 1 above...
Our noble travel plans for 2020 & 2021 are, of course, in tatters. We started the year with a trip to Japan in our sights, then had to downscale to maybe Tasmania... then maybe the Great Ocean road... okay how about a roadtrip around New South Wales? At least we got to do that back in September... getting close to 3 state borders in the process, but not daring, or even wanting really, to cross them. We have a forlorn hope of a trip to Alaska late this year, but it's looking pretty unlikely... & at the moment all the Australian State Borders are closed to those of us in New South Wales, so maybe we'll have to do another inner-State roadtrip... there are still plenty of places we didn't get to?!
