And the real new year begins

[susandennis]

It was lovely to get back into the everyday routine again. To see the regular peops again. And then to get home and have breakfast and do my internetting and then still have the entire day left.

The house cleaner comes today so I'll be outta here. First stop Goodwill. I'll check the fabrics/sheets for goodies and then I want to look for a nice tray with sides for miniature work.

Then on to the doctor's office for my lunch checkup.

By that time, the house cleaner should be done and gone and I can resume guitar building.

Next week - Tuesday, actually, my brother is coming to visit for a week. I'm really looking forward to it. For the past few years, he's come in January and we have a great time. All year long I collect a list of restaurants that sound interesting and we try them all. Plus, in between, we try to work up an appetite for the next one.

He enjoys the getting away and I love having him around. Plus he is great about doing little things around here that are either hard for me to do alone or things I'm just not good at. I have a list for that, too. One thing I'm particularly into this year is the back of my TV.

I want us to pull out the cabinet it sits on and clean up all the cables and wires and dust and vacuum and pick up all the cat toys and then put it all back together again. Also I'm looking for him to advise on the best place to put my TV speakers.

Plus, I just enjoy his company. We are only four years apart in age but because he was the only boy and the youngest, he had a different experience, in many ways, than I did growing up in the same place with the same people. So we have the same background but just in different colors.

Comments

[susandennis]

yep. it's just him this time.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

Hope you have a great time with your brother!

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

I hope it is a great visit

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Have a great visit!

There is a bigger gap between myself and the youngest in our family. We too, grew up with the same people, but she was very young when we moved to the US. We pretty much grew up in different countries, speaking different languages.

[meathiel]

Hope you have a nice visit with your brother and accomplish everything on your list.

[seekerval.livejournal.com]

It is wonderful that you and your brother are able to spend a week together on an annual basis. My various sibs and I spend a few hours together in a year. Some I haven't seen in a few years. Of course, there's 10 of us living from WAY north in Manitoba down to Arkansas, so...

Here's hoping you have a fantastic time together ... the best you've had yet!

[susandennis]

TEN???!!! Yikes. That's like nearly enough for a jury.

I am very lucky to have my baby brother. He's a keeper.

[seekerval.livejournal.com]

Hah! A jury made up of my family would inevitably be a hung jury. Trust me on that. Certain sibs would disagree with WHATEVER certain other sibs said, no matter what. *sigh* We've grown much more dysfunctional as we've aged. Makes me sad when I ponder the schisms.

[susandennis]

That's really what I was thinking. There were only three of us. And now two of us have zero interaction with the third. (Me by choice.)

I simply cannot wrap my head around that with a factor of 10

[seekerval.livejournal.com]

Don't try. Just enjoy the good relationship with your brother. That's the way I try to keep myself oriented, anyway.