I am doing well and just ate chicken pot pie, salad, strawberry pie with coffee. I am happy!! Nice way to start the New Year's! I feel pretty good and want to start working again. I have some chores to do and administrative tasks. I also have other items to tackle for this year. I'm getting a teaching certificate also and am enrolled in courses. I want to also learn Japanese but keep procrastinating. I am semi-fluent but this is not good enough.

I feel this year will be a good year. I am going to try to avoid online dating sites for awhile. I have enough contacts with other men for now. There are just acquaintances except the man with an alcohol problem. He is doing well too and did not drink at all for New Year's Eve because he stayed alone and has a fever. It is also minus 15 in Michigan. I am going to keep in contact with him and try to encourage him. I hope to meet him again in the future under better circumstances. That is, I hope he will do something with his drinking by the next time we meet. Writing him keeps me busy too.

I'm doing wonderful and am truly happy!! Happy New Year to you all!!