Aside from attending a memorial in Reno, we didn’t do any traveling this year and so, on our yearly Christmas visit to the San Diego area, we splurged. We stayed at a resort a few blocks away from my daughter’s house.
For us, this resort was a splurge but it was actually one of the cheaper places to stay in the area. Across the street is a campground full of families barbecuing and playing loud music while they dangle on a cliff over a rocky beach. Given the humongous waves hitting the California coast these days, I’m not sure I’d camp on a ledge. Would you? But the resort had a bar and friendly bartenders, who, after a day spent making and decorating Christmas cookies and shopping for last minute gifts, were a real godsend.
It’s hard to enter 2024 with any optimism at all. Nothing to do but …
Join me, will you?
Best wishes for a better than expected year for us all!
Saying nothing in particular 
Glad you had a nice splurge to end the year. Here’s to a better 2024 for us all!
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Me too. A splurge every now and then definitely lifts the spirits! Cheers to 2024 – may it be kind to all of us!
I think I peaked in 1990… Downhill since then.
Tomorrow is: 123123, which is kinda cool, numerology speaking.
That was a good year. So far no odd 123123 things but the night is still young, as they say.
It’ll be fine.! Enjoy 2024. Just remember in 1973 you had Tricky D as pres, no electric toothbrushes and three ply toilet paper was still a dream.
Hard to imagine a time without three ply toilet paper but I guess we lived through it, didn’t we? Happy New Year Geoff!
Hi Jan I hope the break and Christmas with your daughter did you good!! I am dancing with you and I wish you and yours a very happy , healthy, prosperous and peaceful New Year 💜💜💜
Thanks Willow! We had an exciting drive down the coast – lots of flooding and close calls – definitely got my share of excitement for a while! Hope 2024 is also full of good health, prosperity and peace for you and your family!
Excellent now I hope your recovery is well on the mend and that 2024 is a great year for you
Oh! Manners! Thank you for your kind wishes too 💜💜
boy .. seeing the dancing and hearing Nat.. what memories!
I love that song – although I was wrong – it was written by Irving Berlin and not Cole Porter!
Splurge? Hadn’t heard that word. Always a thrill to learn a new word. In English or other…
And thank you for the dance. Fred Astaire… who was the brunette? Ginger Rogers? My, my, was she young…
I think he danced with a number of ladies in that clip – not just Rogers – she was definitely a platinum blond. They all look young to me now!
Indeed they do. But they danced well…
Dancing….Sometimes there’s nth left to do.
It feels just so hopeless. How have you been? I think about you often – having spent a dreary winter in southern Germany myself. I hope all is well
Ups and downs, you know. Lots of family and health issues…The usual.
Sorry to hear. I hope the ups soon take overtake the downs.