Highlights: Weekend indulgences caught up and undermined weekday efforts. A 'break even' after one week isn't progress. It's a failure. Intermittent fast for the day broke for light dinner and, oh, more indulgences due to the return of macadamia nuts I'd given a friend, only with added elements. De-fucking-lecious stuff. Jen painted more cabinets and walls in the kitchen while I worked through more of the filings and paperwork I had to catch up on. I sat and read a magazine article with my morning coffee but sadly struggled with the font size! Ugh. Age. Meanwhile, I've amassed more audiobooks and kindle content for my January endeavors. I got all the remaining Christmas stuff sorted out and set aside the 'legacy' stuff for the kids, including their mom's and my stockings, which she stitched for us in 1998 and to be honest, seeing hers hit a nerve. It's still hard to comprehend fully that she is gone, and that it still throws me from time to time speaks to my resolution with it all being incomplete. I'll be working on that in 2023 too. And I'm glad the kids will have so many artifacts and pieces of their childhood set aside when they're ready. I pulled down and set up another of the trees in the front - it's simple, colored lights and looks excellent like the rest of the house lights. I talked to both kids about the Phillips CPAP lawsuit having had significant momentum in November. I hope they pursue it, there's a solid chance that their mom's death was a direct result of her use of the defective recalled units, and the impact warrants reimbursement of the entire medical costs at the absolute minimum, let alone compensation for their loss and the hardships it's put them through, too. I'm not typically a litigious person and think many lawsuits are frivolous and unwarranted, but this is not one of those instances.
