Another Christmas in the Books

What a Christmas (!!)  Probably one of my favorite in recent years.  We cooked together, ate together, exchanged awesome presents (funny and nice), played games and had fun with four dogs.  Lots of laughing and celebrating and good old-fashioned family time.

I didn't get many pictures but here are a few.

My dogs in ornament form from a girlfriend.
ADORABLE!

Big guy joining the card game.

Little gal SO TIRED she can't keep her eyes open.

Asleep on the table LOL.

Youngest on the floor LOL.

Teaching us euchre (card game)
Fun, but complicated.

Fresh pressed olive oil from Greece from my girlfriend.
I made a simple salad dressing -- delicious.

Christmas is finished and that rounds out the holidays for us this year.  NYE and New Year's Day is like Easter -- make some food and hang out.  We are plenty over going out, going to parties or having a party on NYE -- and I'm over celebratory drinking this year!!  I'll be well asleep by midnight.

We're hosting a big family gathering January 4, but that's AFTER holidays.  I'll be undecorated by Saturday.

Focus is switching to HEALTHY (living my best cliche).  Usually, I take a transition day or two after the holiday bash to get back to better eating.  Not this year.  We are at jean emergency level of tightness and down to very few clothes to wear.  Today is the day.

Yep, I will stomp my feet later on.  Yep, I'll have a headache.  Yep, I'll be grumpy as crap.  It can't matter.

This week is quiet and I'm using the time to start planning 2020.   Congratulations if you DON'T NEED to be the cliche (I wish I was there with you), but I'm joining the masses in riding in a new decade with resolutions, intentions and hope for a better ME!!

The clean up of EVERYTHING begins today.  Cleaning crew (pushed from yesterday) so I need to have a lot of stuff tidied up in a hurry.  Junk food is all finished.   Forced run outside later (I want this like a hole in my head, but it's for the best -- jump back in and with the cleaning crew here, I can't workout inside anyway).

I'm puffy, swollen, tired, achy, bloated.  Ugh.  Enough.

P.S.  I'm NOT doing a Whole30, but I am getting serious about cutting back on the junk (alcohol, sugar, etc).  Cutting back, not cutting out.  More on all that later.

Hope you had and have an amazing day -- later gators.