Merry Christmas Eve, ya'll!  I hope it's going well for you.  My day has been uneventful, just the way I like it!  

Sure, I got testy with my mother today, over the fact she keeps fucking with my stuff (I had to tell her to knock it off).  I find that I have to keep putting stuff in my room because she thinks she's entitled to mess with my things, which makes my room a fucking mess.  BUT I've had enough.  My room looks like a disaster zone and that's it.  I am done with it.  She will leave my shit alone and if she doesn't,  I will store shit in the basement and she'll have no access to it at all.  From now one, that's where the crackers and cereal will go, because my bedroom is not a fucking pantry.  This time, she was getting into my open-air drawers and pulling out all my Ziplock bags and removing the boxes and letting the bags just fly all around the drawer.  Not only that, she stole like 50 of my 100 bag pack.  She didn't even ask first.  So I had to tell her to knock it off.  

Also, she said today "I miss cooking a turkey for Christmas" and I almost burst out laughing.  But I did reply "I don't".  Her turkey was dry, undercooked, and she was a BITCH whenever she made any holiday dinners.  Why would she miss that?  I sure fucking don't.  Because she loves being a bitch, that's why.  Now, she has nothing to do at all, and that's just the way I like it.  

The kids are mulling some wine right now.  I am going to make the Stove-Top chicken casserole and we'll be getting all the gifts together in bags for tomorrow.  We're listening to Christmas music and I am baking bread from scratch (it didn't rise!! I think I killed the yeast on accident).  We'll have hot cocoa later and maybe play some board games.  It will be nice.  

Tomorrow I'm making lasagna and garlic bread (I am having tortellini--as I can't handle all that flavor with my acid reflux) and we'll be opening gifts.  My mother has a HUGE amount of gifts, many of which are things she just needs, but some are things she'll like.  It'll keep her happy for a bit.  She yelled at me the other day and threatened me (like her old self), but she's calmed down since, thank goodness.  

I've been making YouTube videos (of my dogs and of an idea I am trying out).  I've also been reading and starting a new scarf I'm knitting--I also found a new hat pattern for crochet I'm going to try).  I've been feeling so much better, I only have a tiny bit of pain left, and I hope it stays that way.  

I hope 2024 brings good health and happiness for everyone reading this (and writing this! ha!) and everyone else, too.  2023 was hard for my family, we lost three dogs and had health issues.  But I am hoping 2024 will be nice.  Oh, and I don't think we'll ever have a white Christmas here again, as the weather changed like 7 years ago and now it's like 50 degrees each year.  This year, it's been humid and foggy, which is pretty cool, and I hope it happens every year.  But I feel bad for all the kids on break who don't get to play the snow!  Growing up, it was always full of snow by now.  But nowadays, we don't get snow until January and the snow stays until spring.  But maybe we won't even get that?  This is why we're moving north.  They predicted our area will be in the new "heat zone" by 2030.  And it's going to get crazy here.  So, off we go to a state with better healthcare and better weather.  Any suggestions?  We're thinking Michigan or Minnesota.  

Okay, have a great Christmas y'all.  Let's hope mother behaves.  Your mother, too.