Happy New Year! As I pen my official first post of 2026, I'm feeling blessed to have made it into another year. I spent my last evening of 2025 quietly at home with Dom. I ordered some crab legs and claws from an outfit called PrimeFish Seafood Company. The order arrived just before Christmas and I was able to freeze them and save some for part of my New Year's Eve dinner. They were a pricey order but part of their appeal is that you only get the crab and lobster meat itself which is freeze packed and not the shells. So it's just a matter of cutting the package and letting the meat out. You can either eat it cold or cook it in some butter for a few minutes. Either way it was very tasty and a good meal for the New Year.
It was a pricey meal and something I probably won't do for a while. But I've seen the ads for the company for at least two years and was curious to try it out. My order of 24 oz of snow crab leg meat, 16oz snow crab claws, and 16oz lobster claw meat cost me $315. But the appeal of not having to break through the shells and sometimes not getting all the meat can't be denied. Enjoying seafood sometimes is a lot of work so it was nice not having to cut through shells.
New Year's Day was pretty quiet as well. There is another random family currently housed at the AirBnB/VRBO across from us but thankfully they are mostly quiet. We did have a nightmarish situation there with a large gathering there at Thanksgiving and some of the cars parking without our permission in our small lot and they were noisy. We contemplated calling the police but the extra cars did wind up moving after an hour or so. I have not been thrilled with having it so close to our house and the main owner is not a nice person at all. The one positive is that the main owner is next door in the garage so if things really go south, at least he's there to deal with it firsthand.
I was dismayed by our latest gas/electric bill from Nipsco being charged almost $500. Nipsco needs to be investigated. They are a monopoly like American Water and unfortunately they get away with charging higher and higher prices. It's crazy how a company can be so universally despised yet they are an integral part of our existence since we need gas, electricity, and water to live. It's so frustrating.
I continue to pray I can hang on to my job with the rising costs of everything. Maybe get a small raise again. That might be too much to ask though...LOL. I do worry about the financial aspect of things since the stock market isn't exactly doing great either.
The latest on the Orange front is that he orchestrated an invasion in Venezuela and took the president Nicolas Maduro and his wife hostage. The reasoning seems to be due to the need to control oil. It does appear the Venezuelan people are for it but what's to stop Orange from trying to take out Canada, Mexico, or Greenland. He himself is a wanna-be dictator.
We're coming on one year since he's been in office. Will we survive for another three years? Will Orange? Maybe Orange planned this latest attack in an attempt to minimize the stock market reaction to the news and of course to add more distractions from the Epstein files.
Either way I'm glad to have a few independent new sources to get the latest information from. Some of my favorites include Don Lemon, Joy Reid, and Jennifer Welch/Angie "Pumps" Sullivan.
As for New Year resolutions, I haven't made any official ones. I do have the goal still of paying off the mortgage this year which is on target. It will definitely be an exciting time. I do want to work on being more healthy in 2026. We shall see what's in store for the year. Whatever happens I'll do my best to navigate through things.
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