Looking back, this hasn't been too bad of a year. Of course I'm ignoring the fact that I was diagnosed with cataracts, my arthritis is getting so much worse that I'm in pain constantly, I'm pretty sure that I have a stress fracture in my foot and I got sick for three weeks after Thanksgiving. There's been other things--bad knees, hips, shoulders, my favorite cousin had a really bad stroke, etc. but, I won a Janome 3160, I'm alive, my daughter is healthy, no one had to have any surgeries this year, so I guess it hasn't been too bad. Sometimes we all get so focused on the fact that they glass is half empty that we forget to quench our thirst with the half that isn't.