2021

January:
Ratatouille TikTok Musical
Lori's Improv Birthday party on Zoom
"Gay Agenda" gifting to Katie, chatting in a parking lot in Harvard
Brian brought Mina to Bennett's bday drive by, CSA pickup

February:
Stella's girl scout cupcakes (Marlboro)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Moderna vaccine #2, a lot of couch time
Jane Fonda workout in living room
Muppet Show comes to Disney +
Paz Visla cake for Brian's birthday

March:
Habitat Belmont
Mina finds her way to the movie Soul on her own
Sanrio Amiibo pack for ACNH
New chair and a half, gray cover for old couch
Online church talent show, Mina is all gothed up, shares video she made
First post-pandemic haircut
Ginny climbs the ladder in Mina's closet
Rent reunion, online
Poly Styrene documentary, online

April:
Mt. Auburn Floral Gravestone Symbolism, online
Gore place with Henry and family
Tower Hill Botanical Garden for Daffodills
Salem Ladies' overnight with Mina: Beach, 9 PM dessert, Halloween Museum
Watching Good Omens
Retro folding chairs
Reading The Wild Robot with Mina
Hike in Lincoln with UU folks (bay circuit trail)
Mina heads back to in person school
Mina Little Dragon Black belt


May:
Mina tiny bedroom makeover (huge black bookshelf)
DL school gets little free library
Landscaper in side yard
Pedi checkup, "Care and Keeping of You" book
Afternoon in Boston, 'I'm to old for this' carousel ride
Welcome 2 American, new released Prince album
Miriam musical, online
Rendezvous is closed


June:
Indian Head huge motel room. Funspot. Flatbread with EJ and family.
Mina and me go to Walden Pont
Mina moves up to Karate Kids level
Juneteenth is a Federal Holiday
Waltham train horns are LOUD
Mina tells me there is a ghost in the boys bathroom at school
Rash. Lyme? A month of antibiotics

July:
Water heater explodes
Mina and I brief trip to Connors Pool
First cold post pandemic
Disney with Erin at Poly. Stuck in Small World for 10 minutes, Mina at the cantina, Winnie the Pooh Disneybounding
Finished my Animal Crossing Critterpedia
Mina t-shirt design camp through the city
Hamilton on Disney +


August:
New sewing machine
Honeypot kid's maze
In the Heights Movie
Hike on Thoreau's Ramble
North Conway at Green Granite, met up with EJ and family, my parents art fair on the common, Ice Cream/Candy in Dover
Met up with Cynthia once here, once there
Mina and I on a Monday, Avalon Beach with Lori and Walker
Unicorn Park briefly with Mina, used books in Stoneham


September:
Virtual school open house
Driveway dancing with Kristin
Stone Zoo with Gauri and Inara
Avoiding the Phantom Gourmet festival on Moody
Granite State Comicon, 1 night at hotel. Yip Yip bag. Leia troop.
Solo trip to Tower Hill Botanical garden (Wicked Wings and Hideaway)
Come from Away on my TV
Boston Comicon. My Hero Academia costumes. Mina meets Ash and friends. Brought Antonio on Sunday
New Cinderella on Prime (fashion designer)
Good start to school year, likes Ms. Morris and Y director Erica


October:
Pino haunted maze
Disney Haunted Mansion with Muppets
Chili cookoff/common cleaning/back at First Parish with Friendship Finders
13' skeleton (Bob) in our yard
2nd routine eye exam, and now need 2.50 cheaters
Nashoba Bakery lunch with Dissa
Day off with Brian (Honeypot, Xmas Shopping)
Madame X Madonna tour on TV
Halloween Kills on TV
Wakefield Library Troop (AT AT driver)
Verill Farm pumpkin picking
Dealing with fashion/existential crisis with our kid
Family pizza dinner outdoors at EJ's
Princess Diana musical on Netflix
Coworker Brian gives his notice
Kid gets her first period
Tower Hill fall display (Mina in anime costume)
My parents came to Mina's karate graduation

November:
10 day Blue Fusion Sugar/Dairy detox
RICC crazy, but fun watching kid with her people. Hard to find food.
Thanksgiving with parents and Carlos
Enjoying Drew Barrymore's Rebel Homemaker cookbook
Karate purchases 250 turkey baskets for Thanksgiving
Michelle Wu elected Boston's first woman mayor, first mayor of color
Cancelled the YMCA afterschool program
Mina gets vaccinated at school
Voted for Colleen in our local election, she unseats a long-time incumbent
New Tori Amos Album, Ocean to Ocean

December:
Parents and EJ and family Xmas Eve. Family pizelle baking
Yule at First Parish
Isolated kid is isolated
Tower Hill cancelled again due to weather
Jordan's Enchanted Villiage with Creep animatronics
Disney FL with Tia and Stephen, Mina picks up stomach bug
Virtual Revels show (first time), Reggie O'Hare
Dear Evan Hansen movie
Encanto on Disney+
Record player, MCM table from Ramble Market for it
Green coffee pot
First TRX class
Mina quits karate, and I'm really heartbroken over it
Couldn't sleep, started thinking of den remodeling. Decluttered a ton in there
"The Great Rupert" movie, dancing taxidermy squirrel
Shang Chi on Disney+


Goals for 2022:
Movement (gym, outdoors)
Nature
Learning (read, Spanish, SQL, Access, Epic)
Nourishment (cooking, vegetables, fruit)
Togetherness (family, friends)
Contribution (time, donations, church)
Couch (finally replacing our lumpy, stained, living room couch)