2021 is winding down over here with tornado warnings. So Banjo and I had to shelter in out “tornado shelter.” This involves sitting on the floor. Once we got the all clear, that meant standing up. It’s been a long time since I’ve sat on the floor. I could not get up! I had to scoot on my butt back into the living room and crawl onto the couch. I guess it is best I learned about this issue before I tried to take a yoga class or something. The good news is no more yoga for me! LOL. We are all fine, and Banjo is all doped up for the fireworks. They’ve been going on for a while now, but thankfully not the big ones yet.
In other news, I got the booster today and it HURT! I didn’t even feel the first to shots. This one felt like it went into a muscle or something. So far no symptoms other than a kinda sore arm.
Now I am watching my Dawgs beat up on Michigan and going to pop a bottle of cheap champagne when it is a bit closer to midnight. I’d kinda like to just go to bed. But the fireworks will have Banjo going apeshit at midnight. What are y’all up too?
Happy New Year TT & Banjo!!
It’s funny and sad when we first discover that getting down is one thing and getting back up is a whole ‘nother level hahahahaha – I can’t get up anymore either. Went to Banff (AB) over the holidays – got out of the car to take some pics and landed on my butt – my daughter is a twig and valiantly tried to get me back up lol I am no lightweight. Just as she did it tho a nice gentleman came along and help her get me back into the car lol Can we say exhausted?
New years here is pretty much just another day – nothing fancy, best wishes to my near & dear and so far no one here has fireworks! I hope not, there are 3 dogs and I sure don’t need them barking and panicking at midnight
Happy New Year also to everyone! I wish everyone a safe, healthy, happy & prosperous 2022!!
My worst “getting old AF” was when I had to call my dog to get me off the toilet! Good thing she is half husky!
Once I got my pain meds, I could do it alone. Now that my pain is better, I can get up from any surface. Just that sometimes I have to roll onto my knees and get up that way.
Golden years my ass!
I actually have step kids and grandkids visiting for the weekend. My 3 dogs and I aren’t used to all the noice. Happy New Year to everyone.
Happy New Year to Tamara, Sweet Banjo and everyone!🍾
The temperature is currently 10degrees and we have about a foot and a half of snow. I’m drinking cheap wine, watching 90day fiance and reading TT’s latest post.
What more could a girl ask for?
Fuck Christmas fuck new year’s and fuck you TT if you don’t post this #fuckcovid
#fuckoffworld
yeah
Geez I hope your year gets better.
Ehhh…. hope your year is kind to you.
Thank you!
Wow. I was not sure why your were cussing me out, or thought it would not post. You post here. Your posts automatically go through. I was confused by your attack on me. I’m terribly sorry that your daughter has COVID. I’m hopeful that she is vaccinated and it will be a mild case. We are here for you, even when you are kind of ornery. I’ll pray for you and your daughter.
I am so sorry for swearing at you! It was way too many vodkas, my daughter being sick and a truly horrible Christmas. I’m not usually that ornery. Feeling a little ashamed of myself.
Thank you for your kind words. I’ve been here since the beginning and I’m not going anywhere. Again please accept my apologies!
In fact apologies to everyone who read my post. Happy new year!
Oh Sweetie. Have you met me? We all have our moments. I just thought “she is going through something” I’ve learned that it is usually not about me. And you can vent here anytime you want. You’re part of the family even when you are venting your anger on us. xo ~tt
Wow, holidays seem to make you pretty aggressive.
Not holidays, my daughter is ill
MEOW 😾
Happy new year! 😻
I really hope yours is happy, LindaG. We will be here for you either way.
I HATE fireworks with a passion. I have 3 Chihuahuas and its always a horrible experience. I wish everyone a happy and safe New Year
Walked a mile to the grocery store this morning, went up & down every aisle, and then walked a mile back home carrying 25-30 lbs of groceries. Now my entire body hurts every time I get off the couch. Had lobster tails and Crispy California Roll sushi for dinner and getting ready to have pecan pie & chocolate ice cream for dessert. I’m hoping no one in the neighborhood decides to shoot off fireworks because my dog hates them too. The ones on the LV Strip are too far away so those won’t bother her.
Happy New Year everyone and I hope that 2022 is much, much better for everyone than 2020 & 2021 were.
Hello Tamara! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year 🎈🎊🎆
Happy New Year every one!
I hope you and Banjo have a peaceful night after the earlier drama.
I am taking care of 6 pugs and an orange kitty.
One pug is a visitor.
The pugs are inside the main house instead of their special room because it is cold AF here.
The kitty didn’t like it because they are in the room he goes through to eat. So he hissed. So visitor 💩 and peed on the floor to show who is boss over kitty!
When I let them out to go potty in the front yard (where I can see them — too many feral animals out at night) one of the regular boy pugs peed on the littlest girl pug. WTF? At least he didn’t get her cute hoodie sweater.
I CANNOT wait to get home to my dog and birds.
Happy New Year Tamara and Banjo and everyone here! I heard a few fireworks already (2 1/2 hours to go for the west coast.) I overindulged on food and booze today. I took a nap and I might make it to midnight.
I hear you about getting up off the floor. I kneel down to do anything and my knees think no way you twat. Then I roll over like a fat slug to find something to grab onto. The joys of getting older.
Happy New Year 🥳
It’s 4pm New Year’s Day here and stinking hot … I think it’s 102 your temp. Gonna get hubby to set up the backyard pool so I can soak and day drink lol.
Stay safe everyone and here’s hoping to a little more normality in ‘22
Xx
Happy New Year to you and Banjo, Tamara! I’m starting to think we are twins that were separated at birth. I cannot tell you how many times you’ve written something (like now about not being able to get up off the floor) and it’s EXACTLY what I’ve just experienced! It’s gotten a little freaky. I’ll have to start sending you all the things that you say that could be describing me!
Happy NewYear to all the TT followers. May we all have a better 2022!
The floor thing was bizarre. I was talking to myself. “This is not a joke. You literally can’t get your fat ass off the floor! Now what are you going to do?” I couldn’t crawl because hardwood floors really hurt your knees. So I had to scoot on my butt to get back to the couch that I could climb onto it. WHEN DID I GET THIS OLD?
It sneaks up on you all of a sudden.
I am an elementary school teacher and used to be able to squat down beside their desks to help them — in a dress, pantyhose and heels, knees together (cuz I am a lady!) — and pop back up. Now I make them walk over to me for help because if I get down, I have to get on all fours like a dog and crawl to something to pull myself up. Need to be more like Betty White or RBG and work out more!
Y’all are making me feel so much better about this! It wasn’t that long ago that I was teaching elementary school and would sit on the floor with my kids regularly. I blame two years of sitting on the couch. I’m no longer going to be the fastest water walker in the old lady pool and probably should be in the lane with the physical therapist. 🙁
Happy New Year’s TT and Banjo and anyone else who cares. Me and my Sam are watching some lame ass lifetime movie and drinking “champs”. Well Sam’s not drinking Champs, he’s just trying to look cute to get a couple more scallops, lol. Oh,Sam’s an Australian Shepherd. Hope 2022 brings us all a little closer to normalcy. If that’s such a thing anymore.
I always watch CNN on NYE. I fell asleep but woke up for the ball drop and now I’m watching Don Lemon ring in the new year in New Orleans.
I LOVE watching Anderson Cooper get shit-faced and giggle his way through the evening! I actually watched all the way through midnight then went to bed so I missed Don Lemon in New Orleans afterward.
It was the highlight of my night! Cohen was hammered! “It’s not Journey!” Lol!
Happy New Year Tamara and Banjo!
Well i got a lot pissy, and fell off a stool, bumped my head badly. Ended up with a concussion. Guess I can’t part like it’s 1999 after all🤔
Oh no! We all need those old lady medical alert bracelets! LOL. Hope you feel better soon.
I have one of these bracelets, lol! But just to detect a grand-mal seizure. I think I could get it to send an alert by mimicking a seizure if I fell and couldn’t get up. Be careful with that concussion, those can really knock you for a loop.
My NYE? I went to bed early. I’ve been under the weather.
It is finishED.
I fell asleep and didn’t even open my cheap champagne. And then, nuclear war happened and Banjo lost his mind despite being medicated. Not my favorite way to wake up. However, the entire hood had huge fireworks and they were going off everywhere. Viewable from the couch or any window. It was like Disney World everywhere you looked. HUGE fireworks. There are still a few going off. The thing is, the fireworks at Disney are not being shot off half a block from you in literally every direction. There is a school parking lot one house over and half the world was out there shooting them off. It was the most I have seen ever, and we always have a lot. So that ended the nap. They were really pretty fireworks though. Banjo was not happy and is still grunting and grrrrrrrrrrrrring at the last few stragglers. I really thought he was going to have heart attack for a moment.
I am not a kind person when I am woken up (just as Nancy), so he is barking and I am shouting at him, and it was a clusterfuck. In other news, GEORGIA beat the crap out of Michigan and we are going to the title game where we will beat Bama and reclaim the title of NUMBER ONE BABY!
😂 (Nancy!) They were shooting off fireworks until like 2am. It sounded like a war zone! And emergency vehicle alarms EVERYWHERE! WTF? Where I grew up fireworks were illegal unless set off by the city. Happy New Year!!! Let’s hope it’s a good one, without any fear 🎵 ❤️
I was hoping for an open forum today, and now I have no idea what I wanted to say. But anyway — Happy New Year all! Wishing you a safe and healthy 2022!
I remembered what I wanted to comment about it… It was Kris Kardashian’s finance manager who was brutally murdered and stabbed. How is it that Kris Kardashian has had TWO people in her life brutally murdered like that? Not that it has anything to do with her, but what a strange and tragic coincidence.
I’ve not seen anything about this! That is weird.
I should know better, and yes medical alert bracelets are probably a grand idea😁 lots of bruises and feeling a bit sore and sorry for myself🙄
ONE MORE THING: Lentil Season can’t come early enough this year!
I was debating starting it today. But I finally got to the grocery store today and got champagne that I didn’t open and a couple boxes of wine… I also have a lot of candy in the house. Which would be troubling during the no alcohol part. I can give up sugar OR alcohol but both at once is really hard.
I have to order peanut-free facility cookies and chocolate. Yes, it sucks. I can get them from Canada and Germany. So I tend to order a lot at a time. I’ve got several bags of chocolate covered gingerbread cookies, several bags of cashews, and two large bars of dark chocolate.
I also have ten boxes of macaroni and cheese. Dieting is not on my list of resolutions.
Happy New Year everyone! TT, your articles brighten my day and I love reading all the comments which, like life, range from heartbreaking to hilarious.
I hope and pray that 2022 is a better year for all of us!
🎵I know a weenie man
He owns a weenie stand
He sells most anything from hotdogs on down
One day I’ll change his life
I’ll be his weenie wife
HOT DOG I love my weenie man🎵
Happy New Year to all 😜
OMG! I had not thought of that song in years!
I was today years old when Iearned about the Weenie Man song.
Happy New year!! It has been decades since I stayed up past 9. But some some nice neighbors were determined to make sure we all knew it was midnight. Nonstop fireworks…
I have black eyed peas soaking and some greens and a ham in the fridge. Gonna make some cornbread muffins and eat till I can’t move. I made some buckeyes (drooool) for xmas and have a few left so gonna clean those out, too. I guess I’ll always have this stuff on new years day because Mama did it every year. Can’t help it. And I love it.
I lost my sister on 12/12. It was a long time coming so while sad, it was time. It’s ok, really. She’s at peace. What I do have is a ton of old pictures that I’ve been looking through, some so old they are daguerreotypes that came from my grandmother. My grandparents wedding photo with the newspaper clipping that describes her dress is in there. 1933! My sister was a photographer. These pictures reminded me just how beautiful she was, got all the looks in the family I’m telling you. She collected a lot of this stuff from family over the years and made prints of some of them. We lost a lot of photos in a fire years ago, so it’s been a real kick to look through these things. I really dig looking at all the background stuff and being reminded of my granny’s house and stuff like that. Really cool. I’m going to try to scan them and make copies for anyone that wants them. Project!
Happy new year, folks. Let’s hope this is a much better one.
Condolences. My sister would make buckeyes. Peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate?
Black eyed peas, corn bread and ham sound delicious.
I just put some bacon in the pan for turnip greens I Probably won’t eat. I do a lot of cooking and throwing away food these days. I just can’t eat anything. PUBLIX WANTED $7-8 for ham hocks! What is going on in this pandemic. I got actual bacon for five dollars so that’s going to have to be my port seasoning. I completely forgot to buy a turnip so my potlikker will likely be tasteless.
I’m not even going to bother with blackeyed peas today. I don’t feel like eating.
What are buckeyes?
From : Clueless in Oregon.
A peanut butter mix (think something like Reese peanut butter filling) that’s dipped in chocolate. I guess they call them buckeyes because they look like the buckeye (nut?). They are fan-freaking-tastic
Happy New Year to all of you! It was a quiet one in our house – until the fireworks went off
I hope 2022 is an amazing year for everyone!
Happy New Year everyone! I understand about getting up difficulties. Mine is from back surgery, so I just get on my knees to get up. (Pain is there!) I taught elementary for 33 years and remember squatting, sitting on the floor, and jumping up without help! Those were the days!
Traveling home on I40, woke up to a blanket of snow. I wish people knew how to drive in snow🤣
Right now the skies are blue. Perhaps the bad weather went in another direction? I am not really in the mood for a late night in the hallway sitting on the hardwood floors trying to comfort Banjo and trying not to die maybe even an all nighter. UGH.
Oh shit, I see it now, it’s back in Mississippi and Louisiana now. should be here by eight or nine and I just want to go to bed. Banjo is barking his ass off over nothing and annoying the neighbors probably. But I need him to stay out a bit because once this shit hits, we’re going to be on lockdown. Now there is shit exploding outside. WTF? I just need all the fireworks and bombs or guns or whatever is happening to stop. I’m really tired. I didn’t get much sleep last night,
Bistraynti aliki! TT, does this mean anything to you? I am told that in Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria, kids yell it on New Year’s morning and then they get money from family members. I guess it means something like, My New Year’s Gift is on to you, so you have to give me the gift (money).
Hoping this brings back happy memories for you. Thank you for the gift of your words and observations all the year through!!
Islamic New Year is generally in the summertime but change based on the Islamic calendar. And even thought my mother was invited to Libyan weddings and took me along, killing a live goat and everything, I didn’t learn much Arabic. I had a really mean male Arabic teacher who would yank ears and be a bit physical if your pronunciation was off. I went to the office in advance and told them the Arabic teacher sent me. He was really scary. I regret not learning Arabic A LOT. I wish I knew more.
Overall, the expats for the most part kept to themselves. But my mama did a lot of things for all of her groups including hosting several large events in the ruins near Tripoli and interacting with ambassadors. So even though I was in grades 1-5… I did learn a lot about the culture, but religion was entirely kept separate. I really appreciate the thought though!
I ordered a bottle of vodka with my kale and it means an attended delivery. I should probably shower.
What is this shower thing you speak of?
I hope you don’t get notices like I do comparing you to neighbors for water usage. I wash things.
I haven’t washed anything for two years. I also don’t have a washer and dryer. When Nancy was coming I took my MOUNDS of dirty laundry to the fluff and fold. Still haven’t felt well enough to put them away. In fact the last load is still in the back seat of my car.
Let’s just say I am very good at water conservation which makes me a good environmentalist or some shit. Certainly not a crazy dirty old lady who doesn’t bath. Maybe tomorrow? I got a new atthleisure get up I really won’t to wear, but I have to take a shower first.