New Year


 I would say Happy New Year but really?  It is just a new year this go round.  Not that I am unhappy, just not expecting much for these first few months of 2021. 

I was chatting with someone on New Year's Eve when they signed off with a 'Happy New Year'.. I say it back but thought.. ya ya and hung up.  Then it dawned on me.. it actually was New Year's Eve.. so I called back and returned the greeting a bit more enthusiastically.  A new year had been promised for so long, I hadn't realized it had actually arrived.  But here we are. Fingers crossed.  

My usual 'Canada' thing was to take down the tree, the decorations and clean up.  But I had already done that. 

My usual 'Canada' thing was to start to put into place all those resolutions.  But, I don't have any.  It is not that there isn't room for improvement, it is just that I don't really feel I have any control over it.  2020 stripped that away.  

I continue to walk to the post box, awaiting a letter from the lawyer in Sechelt that was sent December 18 and still has not made its way to me.  And a package from Mexico that was sent the 5th.. WTF.  I don't know what I was thinking.. People seem to have received my Christmas cards.. 

I continue to shovel snow.. that continues to fall from the sky, look beautiful and then start to melt the minute I pay someone to remove the bulk of it. 

I continue to eat left overs, and drink beer - although I am now out of light beer.  

However, I have finally received the go-ahead from the Teacher registration board to apply to work at the local primary school.  Yes, I am once again, a certified teacher in the province of BC.  I applied for that in August.  So.. there is hope.  Things do move through this countries bureaucratic machine.. just really slowly as the machine is outdated.. old.. rusty.  

Fingers crossed it hasn't broken down with my letters and packages haven't jammed it up and thrown in the rubbish bin. 

And when and if they finally do arrive.. what then?  Will I go to work?  Paint cards and sell them on-line? Sneak out to see Travis and the girls? It isn't like going anywhere right now is a simple thing.. the weather and this *^*( pandemic has us pinned down pretty much where we stand. But life goes on, and I did buy a sewing machine.   

So far the New Year has me waiting.. shoveling snow.. and painting while on TV bloody Trump is still refusing to acknowledge he lost the election.   Yesterday he demonstrated that yes, anyone can be president of the US and there are always enough crazies around to drag a whole country into one man's delusions.  Unbelievable.  Trump is one crazy American, and there are a lot of people out there drinking the kool-aid. 

As a front line worker, a nurse, my friend Karen was supposed to get her vaccine on Tuesday.  But, no go. They are having trouble distributing the vaccines they have, and are not sure when they will be getting more.  Now too, they have 'discovered' a few more strains of Corona virus.. it is all new.  The world doesn't know if the vaccines will even work against these new strains.  Here in BC, we have restrictions set upon us, sometimes with just an hours notices.  

I am sure glad I have this lovely home to hide out, a good friend in my 'bubble', and my on-line friends.  But so far, this year is not proving itself to be much of an improvement on 2020.  But.. it has another twelve months to prove itself.  Who knows..  

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