Happy New Year!

I was going to write, Pandemic Life 2022 but that pissed me off so I went with Happy New Year. It is a new year after all. So far, it's not shaping up to be any better than the last TWO. It's so absurd! My fella and I have both been vaccinated, twice AND had our flu shots and still couldn't hide from the 'sick.' At this point I think they should stop trying to get the unvaccinated, vaccinated. Just let everyone get it. Seriously. How are we ever going to achieve herd immunity otherwise. Where I work, we've had at least 40/50 people out sick, every day since before Christmas. One lady, had covid in the very beginning, got vaccinated when she could and got the booster when she could and has covid again! And the numbers their spewing? Honestly, they don't mean anything. How many tens of thousand of people, like me, didn't get tested because they already knew that's what they had?!!! There's no place to go to get tested where the line isn't 2 hours long, at a minimum. There are no home testing kits to be found anywhere. In less than 2 weeks time, we have family all over the country with covid now! Arizona, Utah, California. It's gonna happen eventually. You're going to get it. I'm convinced. sigh. So not only are we starting off the year with yet another flu variant, now we've got inflation and labor shortages to deal with as well. Sometimes it seems like the world is on the brink of great change.

Onward...can you believe it's 2022? 2021 seemed so long sometimes but other times I feel like it went by in just couple months. Humph. Did you have a good Christmas? Has your year started off well? We did some fun things over the Christmas break. We went out to Kokomo to see Seiberling mansion. It's over 10k square feet, built in 1889 by Monroe Seiberling. Really beautiful place. We love those old homes. All that woodwork is so impressive.

 

Then one day we went out to Huntington, Indiana to eat at a little diner called Nick's Kitchen. Founded in 1908, it is the birthplace of the pork tenderloin sandwich. A staple in the Midwest!! Everyone should eat in a 100 = year old establishment. It's fun. 

We also had our first piece of sugar cream pie. The state pie of Indiana. It was kind of like custard pie with sugar on top. Ick. And I like sugar! 

It was a lovely holiday break :-)