Snow Melt

December 2013 is Drawing to an end

December is drawing to an end and I get the feeling that 2014 will begin a new chapter in my life. Mom died on November 29, 2012, I have spent the last thirteen months in the house that she and I shared. I have spent the entire time worrying about something or other. I now wonder what I am going to do with the rest of my life, however long that will be. I am not in good heath, but I do not think my health is all that bad. I will know just how good of health I am experiencing after I see the next two specialist. I am not worried bout my health because I do not know what if there is anything to worry about until I have seen the specialist.

Waiting to see the doctor
is a pleasant experience
that is cool in spring and summer
or warm in autumn and winter.

I am going to the specialist because my regular doctor saw some issues in my last blood test that she wanted checked out, which means more test. There are a lot of thing I want to do in 2014 besides sitting in doctors' offices waiting to see a physician. Most of the time I do not have a long wait, at least not in my regular doctor's office. When I have went to specialist last year and the year before, the wait was not very long. The longest I have had to wait to see a doctor for anything is when I went to wound care, which seems to take longer then anything else; at least, when it comes to the waiting part. This is probably why wound care outpatient clinics have working television sits and cable or satellite access to television stations.

I have reviewed my year
looked at issues that trouble
or perplex me,
but I still think I have
missed something.

I have answered the twenty-one question in "Questions to Answer When Reviewing the Year"  of "The Snowflake Chronicles"  in "Welcome to My Life" , but for some reason I think I have missed something. Perhaps it is because I reviewed at the end of the year instead of doing a daily review of my actions during 2013. Perhaps that should be one of the twelve or nineteen goals I sit for 2014. December is half over and I have to get my goals, income/outgo, and banking spreadsheets in place for 2014. I do not want to spend half of January sitting up spreadsheets that I should have in place by January 1, 2014. I cannot simply copy the templates I used in 2013 to my 2014 spreadsheets because my life situation has changed and is still changing.

Thought of the Day: "New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights." ~Hamilton Wright Mabie