Blah . . .Blur . . .Meh

It is the 27th day of the year and the 27th day of January 2018. This last week has been so -- so-so. From the weather to the news, to politics, to flu, to stuff . . . we try to keep everything in perspective and a good outlook on things -- coffee helps. I drink about eight cups per day and stretch that throughout the day. I make a pot of Italian roast each morning around 7 am and that usually lasts till  7 pm.

This is an "emoji" week and the above is somewhat the way it is for my days lately.  I run the gamut of the above with ultimately a good outlook and a refreshed perspective -- somewhat caffeine induced I suspect.

A lot of what impacts us the last few days has been the weather -- at times it has alternately rained very hard and then drastically changes to bright sunlight with the appearance that "summer" is here -- but of course it is NOT.

In fact, we here in Northern California had a dry December and now a very mixed January. And for the next 7 or 8 days here it is supposed to be sunny without any chance of rain. The grass looks good and the pool water level has been naturally taken care of.

I know other parts of the country and world are having much more extreme weather these days. We can not feel sorry for ourselves given our current weather -- but can just feel "blah".

Of course lately, turning on the news brings about a blahness as well. I can not recall a political climate as stormy as our current state of everyday events.

It is hard to imagine what is to become of things if the turmoil continues.

The mid-year elections will most likely be in the direction that the populous is headed -- and that remains to be seen.

At least we still are using democratic methods . . .

Besides coffee, another way that we chose to "brighten" the horizon was to make a large pot of kielbasa soup including potatoes, rice, barley, peppers, celery, carrots, onions, a bit of garlic -- oh so good. add a dollop of sour cream and for me, a dash of hot sauce and "all is well".
To go along with that treat we made a pan of cornbread served with a drizzle of honey and topped with butter.

Soup and cornbread -- what a way to diminish the blahs. We have enough for a couple more meals -- even if it is sunshining.

Not to be outdone, for dessert, we made a pan of triple fudge brownies -- add a dollop of vanilla ice cream and a squirt of whipping cream and voila -- another blah buster.

We hopefully will have made it successfully through January may be a bit heavier -- but happier and content -- for now.

While all the above was going on, I still worked on adding (and deleting) folks from the family tree.

This week mostly it was adding more Gilletts to the tree. Growing up I never realized how integral they were to our family.

I actually never have met a "Gillett" even though they are so prevalent in the tree. The Gillett family is the connection to so many other relatives.  I do use "Gillette" products though.


And so, that is a bit of our week (meh though it was)

See you all "in a few" !  😏