New Year…New resolutions and new hopes to keep those resolutions. Unfortunately, I think I am already starting to fall behind, depending on how you look at it. What is it with new years that make everyone so ambitious? Regardless, here is my list of new year resolutions:

1. Be Happier: I hope to be less resentful with the world when things don’t go my way.
2. Be Healthier: I hope to exercise on a regular basis to improve my physical abilities and overall stamina
3. Be Disciplined: I started this blog in 2017. Over the past two years, I’ve written in it probably a total of 5 or 6 times. I hope this year is different and although I am pretty sure no one is interested in what I have to say, I want to make use of this site more, if only for myself.
4. Continue to Cook: The pandemic gave me a rare gift of staying home more often than going out. Some might not see this as a gift, but given item number 1 above, I trying to change my attitude. A side benefit of staying home was having a lot more time to try to cook. I hope to continue this to save money and support my second resolution.
5. Develop new hobbies. Hopefully.
6. Spend more quality time with family. Yeah, this one might be tough, but better to be ambitious, right?

HM! 6 seems like a lot….oh well….better get started! Happy New Year!!

2020 has been a stay-at-home, no travel year for us. However, it has prompted us to think about last year. What did we do at the beginning of 2019?

I had the opportunity to visit London at the end of 2018 into the beginning of 2019. Below are some some pictures from London. I know many of them are cliche and are the subjects of many, many tourist photographs, but, I’d still like to share mine. So, indulge me :). We hoped to visit Paris as well, but since it was a last minute destination and lodging was hard to book, we gave up on that particular idea. Hopefully, we’ll have more time to visit in the future.