Christmas was easy this year.

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Oh, I suppose I could do more.  But, really, I only have a few people I know and deal with regularly.  Hmm, I do need to get my local friend something.  Ah, a dinner out... no...  Perhaps a holster?  No, he always gets those right away.  Hmm...  A couple of visits, and find out what he could use.  The visits for sure, but I have been so... ill, or out of sorts.  I've left my home no more than... five or six times in the last two or three months.  Imagine that, and I hate that.  I like getting out, often just to be getting out.

My mother should be receiving her gifts shortly.  And people I regularly see, I gave them a little something.  Oh, and I have a few other things set aside for this and that.  I know, I know, it's not about commercialism.  But it is a good time of year to show direct appreciation.  I promise and forget or fail.  I mean to but don't.  It never works out as I would hope, or rarely.  So Christmas is the time to try to focus.  This year, as happens once in a while, I think I hit the spot for my mother.  I think she'll like what I got her and I got her a fair little bit.  Crazy woman, but crazy like a work all fox.  Yes, she should enjoy.  Not just sentiment or style, but also a return on all the food she has cooked through the years.  A way to make that easier for her, once in a while.

I had one of the steaks tonight.  Lord only knows how much I have missed steak.  It has been six month, maybe a year, since my last one.  I used to eat those weekly, sometimes more often.  But having a home undermined some of that.  And the price had become to steep until I saw a fair price yesterday.  I need to check the butcher shop for good prices, so as to buy a whole roast, or two, and set them up for leaner or higher priced times.  A steak a month, now, will have to do.  Makes great gifts though, truly.  Ah, and having real whipping cream for my coffee!  So much better than canned or dry or even just plain (even if whole) milk.  Yum!

I best get to bed, shortly... after one little problem.  Oh, I did set the dishes to soak last night, then reset them, twice so far, today.  I just couldn't get to them.  But the fresh soaks have been... lifting the gunk up and off.  Should be easy to clean in the morning... if I can get to them.

Good night.