Will I get all those codes right first time?

ETA a day later: Well, I got the codes right, woke up, saw no comments and realised I'd posted private. Nice one, self.

A bunch of cards arrived today, so I want to thank nopseud, saba1789, sperrywink, augustuscaesar, digital_diva, ihearthings_ii and teigh_corvus. You're all very lovely and fantastic people ♥ always.

I feel bad that due to not doing an official card post some people didn't get cards due to me using old address posts. Next year I'll try to be better.

Yesterday I went to see the doctor about my knee. It seems I've damaged the ligaments to one side but sadly due to the lymphodemia there's no way they can wrap it without risking infection. Mainly it's okay walking around, I just have to be careful as it heals, but getting into the car can be so horribly painful. There's just something about that movement that pulls on the ligaments as I lift and then turn my leg. Mostly I manage by getting my foot into the foot-well with my knee straight and sort of hopping toward the seat, but yesterday we'd gone to Tesco and I got in the wrong way and the pain. Ouch.

I had to use the balloon card I was given for the first time when the doctor was going to prescribe painkillers I was sure I couldn't use, and I was right. So I have another kind I'm taking four times a day. I tell you, man, it's one thing after another lately.

But, while I was at Tesco I bought a cheap hand held vacuum and it's fabulous. I got it because inevitably after hoovering with the big hoover and putting it back in the cupboard one of the cats would leave a tuft right in the middle of the floor. With the mini hoover I can just leave it charging all the time and suck up those tufts in seconds.

We're getting a bit of a battering from storm Frank today so I've been staying in where it's warm and catching up on some reading and tv. I've got tea cooking in the slow cooker and intend to take myself off for a long bath soon, but first, this. An excellent challenge that's run by very awesome people. I highly recommend it if you haven't taken part before.

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There's less than four hours left in this year, and right now James is driving Corey to Newcastle so he can bring in the new year with his friends. Which is just as it should be. James will be home soon and we'll bring in our new year by watching tv and then going outside to watch the fireworks explode all over the horizon. It'll be nice and quiet and just how we like.

2015 has been a hard year. Starting in February when James had health issues, then broke his arm and then of course ending with dad with countless cases of mam drama in-between. I'm sitting here and can't quite get my head around the fact I'm about to start a new year dad will never see. He won't be here to help me grow the tomatoes or eat pies in the garden or just anything. I miss him so much. So very much.

But the year hasn't all been bad. I have a beautiful new nephew and Corey's had a good first term at uni. I do miss my baby boy, but at the same time, I'm getting to know the amazing man my son is becoming. I'm so incredibly proud of him and this last year he's done so much, that has to be celebrated.

I've lost my way fannishly a bit. I miss writing and the community that used to be around these parts, but you know what? Despite everyone scattering to other parts of the internet, when the bad things happened you came back. The people who I communicate with often, the ones only occasionally, yet more I hadn't talked to for months and in some cases, years. And yet, when I needed support you came. Thank you for that.

2016 stretches in front of me like a blank slate, and I hope it's going to be filled with good things. And I hope that's the case for everyone reading this too. That even if things aren't perfect your life will be happy, comfortable and full of people who love you.

That's my wish to you.