Happy New Year! 2021 is here!

So it is here - 2021. The longest year of our lives is finally over. Am I right? Did 2020 seem to go on forever? Time seemed to stretch a bit and just stopped at certain moments. I think time was playing with us there really. Well finally it is a new year so let's see what this one has in store. Let's get this going!

Today, I did stuff around here. I went for a good long walk first thing - started that out right. The walks are starting to feel good. The first part is a long incline so I get the body pumping and really work it. So I like the challenge of that. The whole round trip walk is about 3 miles so that is a good stretch. It takes me about an hour to do. Not too bad. Today I ran into some succulents on the route. There are some great gardens here in Berkeley, CA so I took a picture of some pretty succulents I saw today. Love these.



And then I came home - cooked a nice breakfast of pancakes and turkey bacon and then got to work on some of my own plants. I have some that I have been meaning to repot for a while so got that done today. A couple of succulents and a fern. I love how they look when they are finally in their new pot. Just so happy. Here is a pic of those. Yay!



So I am doing good today. Getting things done. I really like new year's with all its hope and promise and newness. A shiny new year - let's just see how it goes. I have noticed people are pretty optimistic on social media and things are looking better on there. I do think it will take a while for the pandemic to clear up here in the United States and they need to get on it with the vaccine distribution so we have some things to get going on - but hey - at least we have the vaccine and a new administration to get it out there. I am looking forward to the return of some competency to our government. That will take a while too - so patience will be important.

Anyhoo. Happy New Year to you and hope you are feeling the optimism.

Snowflake Challenge Day 1

In your own space, introduce yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I will do a short answer to this one - I am phyncke here and in the fandom - I use this name on the blogs and as my writing name. I came at this name as a phonetic spelling of my real name. I write in the Tolkien/Silmarillion fandom and have dabbled in the Terminator fandom a little bit. I mainly do the one fandom. I have never really branched out. I also used to do LJ graphics and have somewhat given that up - I used to do custom graphics on request. No time for that anymore and I cannot access my graphics anymore since photobucket is so messed up and all my stuff is on an old computer.

In my day job, I am an event planner and I do a lot of organizing and events - I work for a major university. I love working in education. I love how smart everyone is and I do love the mission. I feel that education is important.

Other things about me - I usually have two or three books going at the same time - avid reader. I don't write much anymore but wish I was writing more. I usually do two challenges a year and produce two stories a year. So I would say I have a toe in the fandom.

That is about it for me.