I’m in trouble again with the kidults for taking too long with my “Sentence A Day” post for December … LOL.
But I was so inspired by my word for the year for 2021 that I wrote about that first, and this post just had to wait!
So what happened in December??! I’m so glad you asked!
1 December – I have SO MUCH work to get through before Christmas, especially seeing as I want to take 3 weeks’ off afterwards. A big day at my desk, and quite a few more to go before the break.
2 December – My PT has been encouraging me to give water walking a try to replace my morning walks during the hot weather, so today I put on my big girl pants swimmers and headed to the local pool. Following another huge day at our desks, the husbear and I ordered Uber Eats from our favourite Thai restaurant for dinner.
3 December – Fun times at the Bayside Women in Business Christmas function at the Waterloo Bay Hotel in Wynnum, and I even won a $50 voucher to Tide on the Jetty restaurant!
4 December – The husbear and I went for a morning walk; we might have stopped in at Zaraffa’s for a cold mocha fusion along the way …
5 December – Spent the day at Miss 24’s place, where together with her almost M-I-L, we decorated gingerbread houses and made and decorated sugar cookies for Christmas which was a lot of fun! Let’s just say mine were the messiest 🙂 .
6 December – Something I’ve noticed the last year or two is that I get a lot of chafing in the thigh and groin area in the hot and sticky weather. It’s one of the reasons I wear shorts more than dresses these days; but after a particularly uncomfortable week, I went shopping and bought a heap of boy leg undies to see if they help. (They do!)
7 December – Felt out of sorts in the morning after a bad dream, but a water walk helped clear my head. We had a series of storms come through across the afternoon and evening – it’s hard to stay at my desk, I just want to watch the lightning show!
8 December – Another big day of work; my email inbox is overflowing and my phone was going crazy. Seems I’m not the only one panicking about getting things sorted before Christmas!
9 December – A bit of self-care midst the madness – I went for a massage 🙂 .
10 December – Carved out some more ‘me’ time with a trip to the hairdresser for a trim and foils – I got a mixture of blonde and caramel, to help hide the regrowth from my darker colour and blend in the greys. Feel like a new woman!
11 December – Worked til late, but then that’s the price you pay when you book haircuts and massages for during working hours 😉 .
12 December – A bit of Christmas shopping with the husbear in the morning, before he left for an overnight visit to his parents in Toowoomba. It was a windy night and even though it wasn’t too hot I ended up putting the air con on, because I was getting a bit creeped out by the noises!
13 December – Off to another Christmas celebration – a wine and cheese evening hosted by my lovely PT Sally.
14 December – Wow! We had some wild weather. After work the husbear and I went for a walk in the nearby nature reserve where we saw many branches down.
15 December – Meeting with a local marketing business to discuss ways that we could work together moving forward.
16 December – The husbear and I went for a walk after work to admire the Christmas lights in the neighbourhood.
17 December – The husbear and I went for a walk at lunch time … to pick up a pizza, LOL. In the evening we did a bit of Christmas shopping.
18 December – Another big day of work, didn’t finish til 9.30pm.
19 December – Not surprisingly I needed a Saturday sleep in after that marathon effort! Did the last of the Christmas shopping in the afternoon.
20 December – Went ten pin bowling with Mr 26 and his better half, and Miss 24 and her fiance, followed by a BBQ on our deck.
21 December – The husbear bent his middle finger back ten pin bowling and it’s quite swollen and sore. He’s not getting the sympathy from me he was expecting – this is something I’m only TOO familiar with! I couldn’t catch a softball or even a netball to save my life as a kid without doing this (and I’m not much better now, LOL).
22 December – Last PT session and business coaching session before Christmas.
23 December – Last day of work before Christmas, after a water walk.
24 December – Slept in, then did the mowing as well as some cooking to prepare for Christmas.
25 December – Christmas Day – which you can read all about here!
26 December – Cleaned out my side of the walk in wardrobe which was a bit of a disaster area.
27 December – Today I cleaned out all my desk drawers! In the evening we went to the boat club for a Christmas get-together with my side of the family.
28 December – Anybody would think our house is party central! We had some visitors and all the kids came over too, so we had a BBQ out on the deck.
29 December – All that partying takes it out of me 😉 guess I’m an introvert at heart. A snoozy day, though I did start a puzzle I’d received for Christmas.
30 December – More puzzling! Plus, the husbear and I binge-watched the Netflix series, “The Queen’s Gambit”. Husbear liked it because it was about chess; I liked it for the “girl power” theme. I found the first episode a bit unsettling however, as it was set in an orphanage – reminders of my own time in Sandgate Children’s Home in 1978.
31 December – Had to do a bit of work which I hadn’t completed before Christmas (even though I’m meant to be on holidays for 3 weeks – such is the life of a business owner). I was quite sore in my shoulders from doing my puzzle. And I’m afraid we didn’t see the New Year in as we were too tired! I heard some fireworks right on midnight but was too comfortable to get up and watch them, while husbear didn’t hear a thing as he was already in the land of nod!
Needless to say, it was a big month! Definitely needed some time off …
If you could sum up YOUR December in just one phrase or sentence – what would it be?!