Seriousleeeeeeeeee.
2025 was beyond a cah-raaaaazy. I mean, really, what a complete and total shit show! I hope all of it stays in the past because I’m really looking forward to a lighter and brighter 2026. Of course, given this past year, I can’t help but hold my breath waiting for whatever fresh hell awaits us. But… I promised myself that 2026 will be a year of observing, not absorbing, and that will make all the difference.

I also have a plan written in my journal to help keep me from falling down that rabbit hole of doom-scrolling and news headlines, and so far, it’s working for me. I don’t know that I’ll succeed every day, I mean I have kids and grandkids, so I need to be informed, but I learned that there’s a big difference between being informed and being obsessed. I was obsessed, and obsession is a dark place.

And one more thing that has helped me tremendously was slowly weening myself off of the chaos. I’ve been doing it for a while, but in December I just let the axe fall and so far, so good. Deleting all social media accounts and people off of my personal social media accounts that were filled with negativity and hatefulness has made a HUGE difference, and I just decided that I’m not bringing any of that crap into my new year. Last year was enough, and what an eye-opener… It wasn’t just true colors being revealed, it was moral compasses and wow, you think you know someone, right? Geesh.

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So, today, I have zero errands to run and no place to be, so I’ll be home doing laundry, taking down Christmas and hopefully practicing my watercolors, drinking bottomless cups of peppermint tea, and watching/listening to my British detective shows. – UNLESS, it snows. Then I’ll be outside just standing in it, surrounded by its awesomeness. We’ve gotten zero snow so far, and having a green Christmas was a huge bummer, so if we get snow, I’ll be outside for however long it lasts.

Anyway, what will all of you be doing on this 2nd day of 2026? Any plans for the weekend? It’s too cold to do anything here. I got an electric blanket for Christmas and I could snuggle under that and read my weekend away, it’s soooo cozy. I won’t but I could. Do any of you sleep with an electric blanket? I never had one until this Christmas, and I just love it. My sister had electric mattress covers, and now I’m thinking I may get one too so my top and bottom are nice n’ toasty! Lol.

Okay, I’m out. I hope you’re all having a great day and that your weekend will be even better!

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MIMI’S THOUGHT FOR THE DAY –

♥ mimi ♥

Happy New Year from Idaho! And yep, that’s a ginormous potato dropping for the New Year. Luckily, we are famous for our potatoes and not something like rats or roaches, right?
So gross…

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ANNNNNDDDDDD…

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT’S FINALLY HERE???? I’M SOOOO EXCITED!

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It’s another late Monday post. Time just gets away from me!
I hope you’ve all had a great Monday, this fantastical first day of fall! How was everybody’s weekend?? Mine was wonderful and just what I needed. We had great weather and a couple of random very brief thunderstorms that I wish would’ve lasted all day!

I have pics from the weekend, but because I grabbed my old – the Android – and used it to take the pics, I can’t post them because they’re still downloading to my external hard drive. – ALL of them! I’m not even kidding. This is only 30,000+, there is another 10,000+ to go!

Mimi, why are you downloading all of those photos? I’m so happy you asked! Because I’m trading in my Android for credit towards my iPhone – which actually lowered my bill by the way – but I couldn’t trade it in with my whole life trapped inside! Holy hell! So, maybe sometime in 2027 I’ll be able to share the pics of my super fun weekend with you! In the meantime, just know it was a great weekend.

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For Monday’s music, I just used today’s date and picked a random year and looked up what song was popular on this day back in 1971, and it just so happens it’s one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy it too!

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So, today, while the photos were downloading, I took out some super cute fabric and got a pattern all cut out and ready to sew for tomorrow, then, as soon as I’m done sewing that I’m going to finish up a crochet project. They’re both funny, but I can’t say much more about them because they’re gifts, but once she’s received them I’ll post pics because they won’t be trapped in my phone!

Okay. I’m calling it a night. I have an early day tomorrow. Don’t forget to share your party animal weekends with me in the comments! I hope you’re having a great start to the week ahead, and I hope the week just flows along perfectly.
Thank you for reading, I feel like I don’t say that enough, or at all, but I do appreciate you.

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♥ mimi ♥

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1. I’m starting to love my iPhone. It’s a learning curve, but you can teach an old dog new tricks.
   

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2. I didn’t know there was a movie made using an iPhone, but yes there was.
   
   This movie was made using the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Several of them! That’s wild.
   *** Per Wikipedia
   28 Years Later is a 2025 post-apocalyptic coming-of-age^[6][7][8] horror film produced and directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland.

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3. I made homemade chicken noodle soup and it was delicious.
   

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4. I did some binge-watching and got caught up on NCIS, Law & Order SVU and Criminal Minds Evolution.
   

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5. I started watching Tony & Ziva. It’s a spinoff of the original NCIS show when Gibbs (Mark Harmon) was at the helm.
   I’m undecided as to whether I like it or not. I like the characters. It would be nice if it wasn’t cancelled before I know for sure.
   

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6. I’ve been crocheting autumn leaves for a cozy fall garland.
   
   Obviously not done, but I will post pics when it is.

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7. and 8.
   First #7, the super cool Wednesday Addams doll my kids surprised me with. I love that it came with a tiny “Thing.”
   
8. I discovered this cool little feature that iPhone has. You can look up the plants in the photo. I don’t know if all iPhones do that, but it’s super cool.
   

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9. A scene from one of my favorite movies.
   
   Sleepless In Seattle – Meg Ryan is singing along with the Christmas song, Jingle Bells. Horses, horses, horses…

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10. A random pic I saved on Pinterest. Are any of you on Pinterest? I love retro art.
    

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11. My youngest turned 32 on the 13th of this month! Absolutely wild! Time is a thief.
    

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12. Fun fact via Wikipedia – September 18, 1837 in Brooklyn, Connecticut, U.S. New York City, U.S. Tiffany & Co. was founded in 1837 by the jeweler Charles Lewis Tiffany and became famous in the early 20th century under the artistic direction of his son Louis Comfort Tiffany.
    I have never received a little blue box from Tiffany’s, but it’s on my bucket list.

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13. And what better follow-up to #12 than this great tune.

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Happy Thursday, everyone. We’re almost through the 3rd week in September, how crazy is that? I’m loving it, but it’s going by so fast! We’re getting fall temps off and on, but I wish the nighttime temps were our daytime temps. I’m sure a lot of people disagree with me on that, but lately people disagreeing with me seems to be the norm and that’s okay because I disagree with them. You know as you get older none of that bullshit matters and honestly, who has time for it? Not me. Love me or hate me, agree or disagree, I just don’t give a fuck anymore, and that’s pretty much where I’m at on this fine Thursday morning.

I’ll be cleaning out closets today. One of my least favorite things to do because it seems like you make a bigger mess trying to get everything in order, and it would be so much easier to just close the door and be done with it. It’s that way with a lot of things in life. Big messes, closing doors and being done.

This weekend, I’m being taken away to parts unknown. It’s a surprise. I hope it’s someplace very fallish.

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I hope you’ve had a great week thus far. Anybody have any cool plans for the weekend? And just so you know, staying home and relaxing counts as cool plans. As always, I want to hear what’s happening with all of you, so please share in the comments.

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MIMI’S THOUGHT FOR THE DAY –

♥ mimi ♥

iPhone 16 Pro Max

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♥ mimi ♥

Happy Thursday! Decided on a Thursday 13 today. Just a list of 13 things. As always, a big thank you to Liz over at Laws of Gravity where I originally saw the post.

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1.) I’m done with being sad. Between yesterday’s shootings and today’s remembrance of 9/11, I’m just done.

2.) I don’t care which side of the aisle you’re on, shooting someone in the neck or anywhere else is never the answer and completely unacceptable!

3.) I don’t care who got a flag lowered for them and who didn’t, who got more air time on the news, who had the biggest protests, funerals, or whatever. I don’t care. It’s petty, and we need to pay attention to the things that truly affect our country.

4.) I knocked my news watching time down to once a week on Fridays. I try to catch a re-cap of what’s been going on because I don’t want to be sucked into the negative abyss that is now the media. Yesterday was my Friday news re-cap.

5.) No, I didn’t see the video of Charlie Kirk getting shot. No, I’m not going to watch it. It’s heartbreaking. I wasn’t a fan of his, but he didn’t deserve to be shot for exercising his right of freedom of speech.

6.) Charlie Kirk is the same age as my youngest son. Things hit you different when there are similarities to your kids.

7.) Yesterday morning we had wonderful thunderstorms. I was hoping for a whole day but I am thankful for what we got. Fall might actually be trying to arrive!

8.) My son and daughter-in-law got a “new to them” vehicle the other day. It’s beautiful and only has 52,000 miles on it.

9.) Next year we will be spending Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts and I can’t wait!

10.) Attention, attention. Covid has left the building! Finally!

11.) I am totally hooked on the British show, ‘Escape To The Country’ and having watched this show countless times, I know I want to live by the sea in a detached home with a thatched roof. And there has to be a deck outside so I can have my coffee, listen to the waves crashing against the rocks and watch the boats floating along.

12.) I woke up at 1:15am and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I decided to write this post.

13.) Now I’m tired, and I am going back to bed!

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Happy Thursday, everyone! I hope you have at least 13 things to smile about today! If not, I hope you at least don’t have 13 things to frown about! Turn that frown upside down, right? Okay. I’m getting really sleepy. I’ll be back in a few. Night!

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We will always remember…

♥ mimi ♥

♥ mimi ♥

Hi, everybody. It’s after 9pm so it’s a late night post for me. Geesh. What a week it’s been. When I posted on the 1st, I had every intention of posting every day, and I was so ready! Then Covid decided to be an asshole and visit my home, getting all of us sick. The kids pushed through, and they felt like they just had a really bad case of the flu. I ended up in the ER. The last time I had Covid, my dr. prescribed me a medication called Paxlovid. If you take it within the first few days of a positive Covid test, the Paxlovid will lessen the severity of Covid and keep it from getting worse. For me, Paxlovid was a lifesaver! This time having Covid, kicked my ass all the way to the ER! I thought for sure they would give me Paxlovid as soon as I got there, and I would be on my way to feeling a million times better. – NOPE. – Covid has already mutated and Paxlovid doesn’t work with this strain. How wild is that?
So, I got fluids and antibiotics via an IV, a couple of Ibuprofen and some Zofran for the nausea and vomiting. That was the treatment, so, basically it is a flu. The body aches, the coughing and sudden feelings of exhaustion, are lingering on, but I’ll take it! Anything is better than full on Covid. My only hope is that this is it for me. With cold, flu, and Covid season upon us, I think I’ve already paid my dues.

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I can’t believe we’ve already blown past the first week in September. Why can’t it go as slow as a slug, like hot n’ sweaty summer does? It’s almost 10pm, and it’s still 78 degrees out. All this week is supposed to be near 80, which is a whole helluva lot better than triple digit heat or heat in the 90s, but I’m looking for highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s. Those temps mean open doors and windows, front and back, and I am beyond ready for that!

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I haven’t really done a whole lot since Covid. I’ve caught up on some reading, and I have managed to work on my never-ending 2023 Halloween quilt. It may look familiar to some of you who saw it when I first started it back in 2023. Good lord. My quilting moves along at the pace of slug-ass summer.

Will it get finished this year? Who knows, but stay tuned, miracles do happen.

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For my Monday music, I’ve chosen ‘Goodbye Stranger’ by the group Supertramp.
Also, a thank you and R.I.P. to the co-founder of Supertramp, Rick Davies, who died Sept. 6th from a blood cancer. He was 81.

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I hope all of you have had a wonderful start to this beautiful month of September, and I hope your week ahead brings you many smiles and lots of laughter. Laughter is such a great cleanse for the soul, isn’t it? Oh! I’ll be around visiting and catching up with all of you tomorrow. I know I’ve missed a lot, but I don’t mind reading if you don’t mind the late visits and comments. And another, oh! What did you guys do for the Labor Day Weekend? (If you celebrate.)

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♥ mimi ♥

Spent the night at the ER.

Stupid Covid.

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♥ mimi ♥