And I'm starting off on the wrong foot. My difficulty is I can't speak my mind. I can't tell someone off, be disagreeable. I've never yelled at anyone outside my family. I was raised to be obedient by my mom and aunt. Then, I'm Asian. The stereotype is to be quiet and obedient. Then, again, I've always been a secretary. The way I played it, was, the client is boss. I do whatever they say, with a smile. I know I would've been a great waitress if I could remember stuff.

Anyway, this personality quirk rears itself in my personal friendships. I can't be forthright if it means the other person is upset. For instance, Mr x is always cold. I'm usually hot. I come in to bike. He's sitting in front of the space heater. He says, shall I turn it off? I say, no. It's fine. Because I know it's good for him. It's a real drag being this way. A lot of time I prefer my own company because I can be true to myself.

So we had a spat tonight. I couldn't express my disagreement so finally just went to bed early. After an hour Mr x comes in and asks if I'm alright. He wondered if he said something and wanted to apologize. Of course I denied anything was wrong.

Mr x is talking about food so I don't know how long I can stay here. I used to like the strawberry parfait at KFC.

Didn't make it awake to see ball drop last nite. Heard some boom booms.

It was going to be in 40s this week, but rain came in and twill be in 50s.

The book I'm reading is going nowhere fast. Where's the big, bad boy friend coming to get his drugs. All she's doing is riding horses and flirting with the guy. # yawn

Today made bananananana pudding. # sorry. Know how to spell it, just don't know when to stop. Also mac and cheese. # the great American treat

This new book is trying my patience. It sounded promising. A woman fleeing from her past ends up in dead end town. Meets guy running from something too. But the woman has spunk. There's some Mary Tyler Moore scene with her boss, ed asner. Meeting for first time, he says, sounds like you have spunk. She smiles in shy agreement. Then he growls, I hate spunk.

I hate spunk, too! So far, it's her first day waitressing. Some pest lothario rolled in. She didn't take offense. She bent his thumb back. Cute. A woman with tude. How attractive. And this guy likes her!

I don't know how much more of this book I can take. But I like the one horse town they're in. It's a religious book too. Sassy wench already finagled into going to a service.

Mr x has northern exposure on. It's a good show. I'm thinking I'll not watch the new yrs merry making. It's kind of over the top for me.

It's spelled, Lebowitz.

Is upon us. I won't go out of my way to stay up, but if I am, I'll tune in.

Her name is liebowitz, I believe.

Been cooking recently. I like firing up the ole oven. Makes kitchen warm. Made sweet potato fries. What's that? Special recipe? What size mandolin? You silly goose. I tore open a tjs frozen potato fries and dumped them on a tray.

I can drive tomorrow. Newly restated health plan. Enormous pain to do. Tried about 5 times.

Lets hope 2017 dawns brighter for everyone.

I still haven't finished decorating the tree! Us procrastinators should have a club. We should think about it. Maybe next year.

So, Carrie fisher past. I hadn't read any of her books. But after seeing some snippets, I may. She seems quite witty and forthright. Reminds me of this hilarious author I read once. Her name is Fran something. Levine? Something Jewish, I believe. She loved her ciggies. Not Fran dressler. Horowitz? I found her ol once. I enjoyed her humor. And Carrie seems spot on with observations about her mom.

It's not snowing here, but I'm finding winter very miserable. Mainly it's my hair. Mr x doesn't like me to use a blow dryer on it. Tho I have a very beautiful purple one. I'm constantly sick nowadays with sneezing allergy, sinus headache, or tum upset. Not a happy, pink camper.

In other news, heard from bro. In high school he had a concave stomach. So thin it went in. But later he had expense account from work and was always lunching with clients. He ended up at 210. And he's rather short. Well, he walks nightly with gf and told me he's down to 170. Wow. And he wants to hit 160 next. Purty good, lil bro.