Martini Musings

  As always, I’m THANKFUL!!   T’was the night before Thanksgiving…Yes, it’s one of my favorite days! Food prep, gift wrapping, and preparing the December calendar! This is a great day!! Cue the brakes!   WHOA !!! It’s now Thanksgiving morning. Yesterday was a great day, it is one of my favorites, but damn, I nearly forgot it was blog day! I did indeed start the blog, but that’s as far as it went. So as I watch the annual parade, I’m finally getting this blog post out! Let’s talk about why I’m thankful this year…because there is indeed a lot! I turned 65 this year with a party bus and some awesome people! It was a real treat and I was showered with love!! I went to Nashville with Katie for our annual girl’s getaway and was tickled to travel on the Drag Queen party bus and I was awed by my first visit to the Grand Ole Opry house. Katie & I had good fun, eating drinking, sitting by the pool. It was a treat to get away for a few days! I survived some of th...

  It’s beginning to look like…Christmas!   Well, I guess I can be called an “influencer” this week! It seems that my Halloween tree-decorating inspired others to start decorating. To those that hate this, I apologize, but to others who are glad to get started, good for you!! All of you make me proud! After putting up the tree, it seems that others have decided that getting an early start isn’t so bad. If it makes you happy, brings you joy, why not? It’s a lot of work to decorate the whole house for the holidays. Why not take your time, especially if you are retired, and get it done. Don’t you think sitting by the fire over Thanksgiving weekend, looking at your tree, will feel good? As the weeks (a little over 6 weeks until Christmas) start to close in, our calendars fill up with a variety of things to do. Some things are fun traditions, some things are work requirements, some things are friend gift giving and of course for many, there is traveling. So, why not mark t...

  ‘Tis the Season…   I’m guessing most of you know what happened in my world yesterday. Of course, I saw precious pictures of my grandsons doing their trick-or-treating as the two pilots. I scrolled through Facebook looking at many of your grandchildren and even your creative selves. We had dinner, played our nightly dice game, and then after Joey & Steve left the house, it was time for me to get down to business. The bar tree needed to be setup. Yes, my friends, my bar-themed Christmas tree had to go up! And so it began…I tuned in my Alexa Christmas songs and went to work. I had prepared my night stand in my bedroom for the tree. Remember, my room is my space and when my tree goes up, I feel joy! The tree is just over two feet tall. When I ordered it, the tree was “pre-lit” and when I received it, it was pre-lit alright, with 50 lights. That just wouldn’t do, so I added another 100 and even then, I felt like it could have more. So after “fluffing” the tree a bit...