New Years Eve!

It's hard to believe that it's the last day of 2025. I think the best way to describe 2025 is...10 years that went by super fast. It feels like 2025 has just been...a lot. It's actually been wonderful here at home...it's just...you know...outside is crazy times. :P 

Today is Nova's FIFTH birthday! Nova is just the goodest girl...she is so sweet and laid back. She's the calming influence that has helped Boz overcome a lot of his anxiety. She's also pretty goofy sometimes and we joke that her attitude is like, "I don't know what we're doing, but I'm doing it!" She loves going outside...mostly to search for critters. She's always watching for squirrels, rabbits, squirrels, bugs...doesn't matter, she wants them all. She is pretty stubborn...and will frequently just stand in the yard or even at the bottom of the back steps and refuse to come in unless she gets one of her beggin strips treats (we get the small bacon flavored ones). She also LOVES stuffed toys. She will carry them around and then lay down and just squeak them over and over again. She also seems to like when you say "squeak" back to acknowledge her good work. ;) Nova loves laying in bed or on the couch and getting all the pets and she'll paw at you if you stop. She usually sleeps between Johnny and I  in the bed...laying all sprawled out on her back. She also likes to sleep with her head covered...whether it's her paw draped over her face or tucker her face into pillows or something. She's a daddy's girl and they have their morning routines where she follows him around carrying one of her stuffed animals or pillow, getting some ice cubes, and then her bowl (with too much food in it) and a piece of their duck jerky treats torn up to top her food. Her name is Nova Lee...but at some point I started calling her Nobee...which turned into NoBeans [with the cute ToeBeans]. That started from cleaning the snow out from in between her toe beans. Nova is such a wonderful addition to our family and we couldn't imagine life without her. Here is a ]picture of her on 12/16/25 looking so comfy and relaxed during her 11teenth nap of the day. 

Today I've been working on updating all my spreadsheets. I have so many spreadsheets that I use everyday for work and home life. The "life" workbook includes all our bills organized by payday. I start a new spreadsheet each year so I can organize which bills are paid with which cards...then when payday comes, I just open my spreadsheet, pay the bills due before the next payday, and copy and paste the confirmation numbers into my spreadsheet. Then I have THREE separate workbooks with spreadsheets that I update everyday. One is a monthly calendar where I record all of my orders from all my shops each day and it also totals the orders by week and month. I have another workbook which is pretty much the same except that it records my daily revenue from all my shops and then it totals the revenue by week and month. I also have a worksheet at the end of the calendar that I keep updated with my record highs for the year per day, week, and month. I'm a nerd like that. ;) Then I also have my taxes workbook with sheets related to Taxes. I record all the information for each order on a separate sheet for each shop, all the receipt information for business purchases I've made, etc. I do have one other workbook but it's only updated with every 50 sales in my Etsy shops and at the end of the month when I tally them all. 

Tonight Johnny and I are just going to eat our leftover Hibachi Boy and watch the Stranger Things finale. We'll probably watch the first half while we're eating dinner and then move into the bedroom to watch the rest of it. That way we can adjust the bed up and get all comfy. I like being able to raise the head of the bed up to where I'm not quite sitting up and then raising the my legs up (Johnny prefers just raising the head). I think it's my favorite way to watch TV though. :) 

I hope everyone has a safe New Years Eve and a Happy New Year!