How is your day Today, plans and achievements 2024....

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135th Annual Rose Parade in Pasadena which is one of the many cities in the Los Angeles basin between the mountains and the ocean.
Tournament of Roses AND Rose Parade floats - Wikipedia

How to watch the Rose Parade live:
Watch the 2024 Rose Parade streaming live OR https://www.youtube.com/@tournamentsofroses
Each of the 40-50 floats is covered by perhaps 18,000 flowers and cost an estimated half million dollars. My family has been watching them live on <KTLA> TV every year. As teenagers, my children even helped decorating some floats.

The Parade starts on New Years Day at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (Greenwich Mean Time minus 8 hours)

"Tournament of Roses Parade floats are flower-covered parade floats, used in the annual New Year's Day Tournament of Roses Parade held in Pasadena, California. They evolved from flower-decorated horse carriages with the present day requirement that every inch of every float must be covered with flowers or other natural materials, such as leaves, seeds or bark." (Wikipedia) The Parade usually starts with a flyover of a "B2" US Air Force Stealth Bomber.

Below are some flowers from our garden taken on New Years Eve, the kind of flowers you might see on the floats:

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Happy New Year ... from Pixie, DD and Me... have a great 2024....

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For the first time in 70 years by 10:30 pm I thought I was finished. So tired, so BORED with my own company, I texted my son Happy New Year that I was going to bed. I wonder if I would have felt differently if I had bought that bottle of Bolla Valpolicella. Instead, had 2 capsules of THC extra strength which I then doubled. Didn't want to vape as that has been putting me to sleep.

Seeing the two Andys--Cooper & Cohen on CNN also was strange. Anderson has the weirdest laugh, it's a high pitched giggle. Tried switching channels, tried talking on phone to friends, no, no go, so BORED.

Went to bed, but listened to the Andys, couldn't sleep. Wanted to. Had great Fear something bad was going to happen in Times Square, so bad have things been in NYC with those People, never allowed to celebrate anything except jew killing in their own part of the world. Thank goodness nothing happened. I imagined the worst but BLESS OUR NYC POLICE, the finest in the land. No Quarter for would be party poopers.

Remember approx. 45 years ago, husband & I decided at last minute to attend NYE festivities. We were stopped at 36th Street, and allowed to go no further, so cautious were the police about keeping Times Square safe. So, of course they were up for everything that could possibly happen & I wasted time last night being afraid. If the cops were so cautious back then when nothing was happening, of course they were on guard to keep us safe.

Then, had to listen to Paul Anka of all people, play us out and in with 'My Way' 'Imagine' and 'NY NY'. One of my least favorite entertainers.

After midnight son DID call me anyway. I think my grandson wished me a Happy New Year, or was it my son pretending to be his son, he does a great imitation.

Anyway.........at the top of that circular clock, here we go again. 2024? It was never in my mind to make it this far. Wow.

Wishing you all the very best, always.
 
Happy New Year to all my friends here!

A new year for me always means a new start to change things that need to be changed. Working on projects on my to do list that I never got around to. I keep a journal and I like to read what I wrote a year ago and what I had success on. Sometimes I find I intended to do something that I really did not need to do after all. So off my list it goes!

This is my year of positively improving to make my life better and happier. So today, regardless of the weather, when I take my garbage out to the dumpster I intend to walk at least 15 minutes. Keeping track of the time, not how far.
 
YES! Peace in the world and Peace in our hearts and minds.
This past week quite a few of my neighbors and friends have gotten sick.
I had my RSV shot, Flu shot, and the 2015 pneumonia permanent shot , that was better than the 2009 pneumonia shot ,when that came out, but I still stay away from crowds and have the hand sanitizer bottles on my sink and in my bathroom, and my car and I wipe doorknobs off with a clorox wipe if someone comes over to visit. And I put clorox into my dish pans.

Geez.....maybe I am overly concerned?????
Stay safe and Healthy everyone and make this new year as great as you can!!!!!!!!
 
Morning and Happy New Year......sorta achy this day, but then that is not new....got woke up by large firework at midnite last nite.....then heard a whole lot more going off...ah well...only comes once a year....no special plans for the day again...thanks
for having me....take care......:)
 
What'd I say yesterday? Did I say DSIL has the day off except that it's a holiday and he'd only be off until somebody called out sick? Did I say that? Hm? Did I?

And...he let his assistant manager have Christmas off so that he (DSIL) could have today off. Right? So who's sick? The assistant manager? I mean, if somebody called out, it would be the assistant's problem, right?

Geez.
 
Did some reflecting. Got texts and a call from my sons. I think they might be working on something, genealogy maybe? Lots of small questions about my career with dates. I wish I had more photos to pass along but who takes work photos except special events like retirements?

Odd to see so much activity with the boys in a spurt this early in the day. Two are in different time zones.
 
Kaila said:
Happy new year to all of you!

I managed to sew for a while, on the last day of 2023, which lifted my spirits!

Feel more ready to head into the new year, now.
Thankful for SF and for having friendly people here. :)🤩🥳🎉🎊🎉
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I love hearing that you are going into the new year with such a great attitude! I look forward to reading your posts, and maybe seeing pictures of your sewing! 😉
 
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