Tuckered.......Stressed.....Weather......Christmas.....Hawaii.....Happy New Year.....
I'm not sure what to call this blog! Weather is wearing me down even as the new year progresses. I went from being excited about the snow, Christmas and our trip to Hawaii, to just trying to get through it all with even a little bit of my usual enthusiasm.
No friends, Christmas cards or brown paper packages tied up with string for Christmas, as no-one, nor any delivery service could get to our house due to snow and ice.
After our simple Christmas we were able to make it to the airport (the weather relented briefly) and Hawaii was a welcome, sunny, warm, relief, yet oddly enough a bit stressful.
I was unable to sleep at night, or by the pool, or on the sofa and as our vacation passed by with me averaging only 4 interrupted hours of sleep a night, I was more stressed than before we embarked on our trip!
Add to that, unfortunate service, bad meals, and goof ups by hotels, restaurants, and airlines, plus our home security system going berserk in the middle of the night, concern over non typical behavior by Leelu at the dog sitters, fighting a cold the entire vacation and getting sea sick (that took a couple of day's to get over) on a boat trip.... well.....I didn't come home exactly rested!
We missed record flooding, wind and rain while in Hawaii, but since I've been home there has been a Scifi type fog....literally! It's a thick sticky fog that closes everything in and has you wiping your eyes to clear it away. It's just 30 degrees so it's freezing to everything too. The weirdest thing is, that up our hill or down our hill it's clear and sunny....it's just at our house!!!! Can you sing the Twilight Zone theme????
There were many good and memorable moments too, so I'll try and get my mood out of the fog long enough to mention that...Hawaii is always good for lots of spectacular sunsets, one special one that was spent at the Four Seasons Hotel with our feet in the sand while enjoying steak and lobster. Our condo was gorgeous with an ocean full of whales just off our lani. We actually heard them singing one evening....super special moment! New Years Eve found us at our favorite restaurant, Tommy Bahama's, where Adam Sandler dined just a couple of tables away from us. I won the final two games of pay 'd man and dominoes with Rose and Dale after being just about the biggest looser the entire two weeks! I bought myself a beautiful hand crafted bracelet in a Hawaiian gallery, and when we got home there were stacks of Christmas cards and presents in brown paper packages tied up with string waiting for us!
When friends ask how our trip went, I end up tongue tied wanting to say so-so and fantastic at the same time and I end up saying "good" with a tiny lack of enthusiasm.
Even as I whine a bit I can't help thinking about how fortunate we are that we have presents, late or not. That we are able to take wonderful warm vacations and that we have a cozy house to keep the fog and cold out.
So may fog always be somewhere else and may your New Year be better than good!!!!
