My first 2019 listing

Today, I have been thinking of  some things that have come into my life this past year that should have been there long ago:

• the ability to cut my own hair while I'm wearing it fairly short---when I wear it long, I've always been able to cut it myself, but having added some IKEA shelving with mirrors for doors, it's made short haircuts really easy
• the knowledge that any book I read more than 2 years ago is now eligible for thrilling me as easily as it did the first time
• those fairly expensive battery-run things that rub the dry skin off your feet really work
• there are actually mittens that can keep your hands warm outdoors; my Secret Santa gave me wonderful leather with lambswool lining that make it feel like May outdoors
• brioche.  I know I need say nothing unless you're a dedicated brown-bread eater
• carrying a small notebook around so that when I go in a store I know why I'm there or when I leave the house to visit someone I remember to pick up the bottle of wine
• alpaca wool socks....OM very G
• Malbec.  Thank you Sarah Rushton, I would never have found this on my own,  having had a preference for white wine
• Netflix....I had watched Dave following programs for which I thought I had no time, but since Chris gave us a huge TV as a gift this past year, I now watch more than most of the Star Treks, some CNN and The Rookie. I have to admit to loving Data even more when his face is about 3 feet, chin to slicked hair.
• Sleeping overnight at Emily's which led to our buying a brand new wonderful mattress

 I just went back and read the list, and I have to add, as something new, insight.