bluebicycle, I felt relaxed just reading your low-stress sounding post. Enjoy the time with fewer people at the office!


Wild Coyote, keep at those SS people! Hopefully soon you'll finally be done with that nightmare.


Today was good for me. I did a lot of self-care that I don't normally do. My husband said he thinks my face is less red than yesterday, but I still see some redness. I hope it goes away. I have no idea what has caused it. I haven't used any new creams on my face. Hubby did put a cream on my forehead a few days ago, but the redness is not on my forehead.


I did some housework. Tomorrow the floors and bathrooms will be cleaned. I told hubby that perhaps afterwards we should invite our new neighbors over. I'm not up to anything major. Perhaps just drinks, tea/coffee, and a little dessert. We haven't even met them. We know they're Chinese, and we don't think they have any children.


Speaking of Chinese, hubby had the marvelous idea to go to a Chinese restaurant we discovered a month ago. That is, by far, the best authentic Chinese restaurant outside China towns. It is primarily a Szechuan restaurant (a lot of spicy), but they have other dishes, too. And it's very reasonably priced, with always lots of leftovers. Then this coming Saturday, we are invited to a Chinese friend's house for a Chinese New Years celebration. That will be absolutely marvelous! Chinese New Years celebrations are a most wonderful thing! So I guess this week I'll be practicing my rusty Chinese a bit. Our neighbors on the other side of us are mostly all Chinese, as well, but we never see them. They are 20 something year old graduate students at the university. I think they more often live in the labs.

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