Dribs and drabs of chota mota

Since I'm starting to get emails from folks wondering if I am okay (*hugs said folks vigorously*) I figured I'd better do an update here, to let you all know that all is peachy.  I think I shall resort to bullet form, because the update will consist of a lot of chota mota!

• A late celebration of Christmas took place over the New Year's weekend, at my folks' place.  My sister and her family, my brother, my aunt and my parents were all there.  We had had to postpone due to a blizzard they had at Christmastime; as it was, we had quite a bit of snow ourselves for our trip there.
• Speaking of snow, here's some trivia for you -- the amount of snow that fell in the month of December here in our area of Wisconsin was the 2nd highest on record, something like 32 inches!
• Speaking of snow again, most of that 32 inches is gone now, because yesterday it got up to almost 60 degrees.  There were even tornadoes touching down near here yesterday, which doesn't usually happen in January.  Today it is raining.  No one ever said Wisconsin weather wasn't interesting.  ;-)
• We came back from our parental visit sick with colds, probably given to us by my dad.  He says if we want another we can come back again, because he still has his.  We said no thank you.  My DS was pretty sick with it, to the point that they sent him home from McD's one day -- but DH and myself have only been slightly under the weather.  Whew!
• I just got back from the doctor, for a follow-up visit to go over my lab work from my physical in December.  He told me that my cholesterol is among the best he's ever seen -- my total number is high, but my good cholesterol is so high, he says I'll live to be 127.  :-D  As it happens, my maternal grandmother and great-grandmother surpassed 100 years old, so there may be some truth in that.  We'll see how it goes.  ;-)  Anyway, my doctor said I'm so healthy it's boring, hehe.  Now if I can just lose weight so my feet will be happy, I shall be content.

Tomorrow being Wednesday, I will probably be taking a day off the computer -- in case anyone misses me!  I shall be back on Thursday to catch up with you all.  One thing I want to do tomorrow in some of my quiet time is to sit down and figure out what my goals and plans for the new year are going to be, since it's about time I put them down in writing!

Have a good day, everyone!