My own Gift

 It's always feels good to give, but sometimes it's just nice to buy a gift for yourself.

My Christmas gift arrived today from the Ukraine. I was shopping for a painting for my cousin in Florida who loves Lighthouses, the really colorful kind.(which I found on Etsy from St. Petersburg Russia and bought for her). While I was looking on Etsy for my cousins gift, I came across this two toned oil painting of a lighthouse and it just struck me. I didn't order it right away, I kept going back and looking at it. Within the painting I saw very cold early day and couldn't stop thinking about it. After a few days I finally bought it. It was late November and it just arrived today.

The packaging was air tight in multiple layers, signed with a description on the back, and was accompanied by a letter that I can't read since it's in Russian.  I am pretty happy with my purchase!!  Now I just need to hang it up and stare at it for a while.  

January 1, 2021

2020 seems surreal and even though we have a vaccine, I think for the common people it will seem that the strange and dangerous times of 2020 will linger too long into 2021. Hopefully things will be better soon and things will get back to normal sometime in the near future.  For me personally, I realized that I am much more of an introvert than I thought. I only have a handful of things that I repetitively did that I enjoyed outside of my work and home, but they meant a lot to me.  

I miss spending time at my favorite coffee shop, I miss seeing the people that work there, the atmosphere of being able to daydream, sketch and just be. I miss going to the museum and all the events they held throughout the year. I miss the art festivals. I miss seeing people that I know.

On a light side of things.  I still worked in real estate as it is an essential job since people need a place to live. I stayed busy throughout 2020 so I was blessed to be able to pay my bills. While at one of the homes that I sold, there was a poker table, a really NICE poker table.... now mind you, I never played poker but I quickly realized I could like playing poker, so I bought the table from the homeowner!

We spent New Years Eve playing dominoes and then poker until the wee hours into the morning of the 1st day of 2021!  Yup, I can play! We all enjoyed ourselves! 

I wish everyone reading this a very happy and healthy New Year!