The older we get the more we appreciate making it to the end of one more year.
Saturday, December thirty-first twenty twenty-two.
Several of my classmates From the graduating class of nineteen eighty have died throughout the 2022 year. Many of us are celebrating our sixtieth birthday. I celebrated my sixtieth birthday quietly on June 11th. My husband had tried to organize a surprise birthday party and even enlisted my best friend in Canada to organize it and decorate. I was going through a difficult family crisis and really wasn't up for a party. I had no idea it was in the planning, but I was grateful it didn’t come to fruition.
I posted my introductory post just yesterday. I suffered from a migraine which haunted me through the night and is currently plaguing me as I type. I see that to participate in #iamalivechallenge we need to post daily. I'm not sure that I'll be capable of satisfying the community expectation between working full-time and coping with chronic migraine. I will make an effort because the group is a kind and committed collective.
I stayed in bed until 10:00 am and worked my way out to the livingroom to drink tea and take more medication. I was able to eat a bowl of cereal and throw a load of wash into the washer.
My husband went into town an hour North to take Christmas gifts to his daughter's family. She just got fired from her job yesterday. Her and her husband have a four year old and a baby. I had hoped to go and to enjoy seeing the looks on the children's faces as they opened the gifts I picked out. You miss a lot of life with migraine.
This morning my husband discovered that out big freezer got unplugged somehow and we lost some frozen food. This is very unfortunate, but the little freezer was still working, so we didn't lose everything. We are very grateful for this. We are also thankful that we didn’t get the half of a cow yet because we would have lost it all and that would have been very costly. My husband will be making the plug unable to be pulled out before we fill it again.
The house is quiet but for the clicking of my husband's clock. He loves clocks and we have multiple clocks in every room except the bedroom. Some are very old. The bedroom has an "anniversary clock. "
I decided to take pictures of the clocks currently running in the house.
Livingroom Clocks
She's a beautiful piece. It is set to ring every fifteen minutes. I have instructed my husband that I will go insane if it does, so he mercifully stopped it!
Old table top or mantle top clock he has had sent to the repair shop a few times. It really is a lovely clock! This is the clock that has a very loud "tic toc, tic toc" that reminds me of the Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.
This clock is to my left on the wall. The size is approximately a foot and a half! It does not make any sounds so it's one of my favorite. Initially my husband wanted it on the bedroom wall, but I put my foot down.
Kitchen Clocks
My husband is interested in steampunk. We even had a steampunk wedding that turned out beautifully.
This clock hangs above my head where I wash dishes. The little star is a reflection of a lighted star on the back wall of the kitchen.
This is the star 🌟.
This clock is like a huge watch face on a little pedestal. He has it sitting on top of the microwave. The clock slowly turns around with vibrations of cooking.
Bedroom Clock
My bedroom is also my office. I agreed to one clock, the anniversary clock. It only requires to be wound once a year on your wedding anniversary. This year my husband says he forgot to wind it on our anniversary, But he did wind it when he remembered. I believe that this is the most beautiful clock of all.
Now I'm going to close my twenty twenty-two i'm alive post. It was much more challenging than I anticipated when I decided to add all the photos and I hope you all enjoy them time is important but people are more important.
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Thank you for reading 📚.
