Happy Finish to 2025 and Happy Start to 2026

How have your holidays been so far? Ready to say bye to 2025 and get started with 2026?

I am very happy with my holidays 🙂 Having my sister over, hanging with Sandy, nice Santa, great trip to LA, and a tasty Xmas Eve at Angel’s house to mention a few things.

Here are some pics from when Sandy was over. Enchanted garden maze.

We also did the strip and checked out the decorations at the Bellagio Hotel. Love the holiday shop they have there and I would buy half the store if I had the budget for it 🙂 The kids also required a stop at the M&M store and we checked out some other hotels too…

The next morning after I woke up I had tooth pain again! WTF! And no, not from the wisdom tooth extraction. Another tooth. Off to the emergency dental clinic. Turns out it was a cracked filling this time. Since we had made plans to see the Red Rocks, I made an appointment for later and had it dealt with. I decided that I’ve dealt with enough things this year so 2026 better keep it together! But the Red Rocks were great as always 🙂

Then came Christmas Eve. My sister was jet lagging, so when I got up around 7am, she was already making meatballs hahahaa…

Later we went over to Angel’s house. She was cooking a Czech soup that was delicious! We brought over some Swedish stuff like homemade ‘rödbetssallad’ (beet salad), the meatballs, herring, ham & salmon, glögg (mulled wine) which was a German version and of course there were sweets! I have never tried herring. Decided this was the year I would try it. I ate the one in mustard sauce and it was pretty good. Angel and Abby liked the herring too.

Got some presents and Hunter got a new cat tunnel he was unsure about at first, but loves it now!

Best thing is left overs and Christmas day started with knäckebröd (Swedish Crispbread) with ham and Dijon mustard, a meatball sandwich, and Angel’s soup.

After all this eating, I took my sister to Calico Basin and we did a hike. Beautiful weather and felt good to be outdoors.

On the 27th we hit the road to LA. Usually takes a little bit over 4h. After leaving and about 30min later we hit a standstill. Used Gemini AI and found out there was a semi truck that had turned over in the midsection about 4 miles ahead. Took us about 1,5h to get past that. Had time to throw our packing in our hotel and then Sandy picked us up for dinner. We ate at Sora at The Grove. Wow, some of the best sushi I’ve ever had! If you are in LA and like sushi, go here!!!! The spicy Margaritas were great too hahahaa…

The next morning started with coffee and then brunch at the Beverly Hills hotel with Sandy’s mom. I call her my extra mom and she is super fun!

We chilled at Sandy’s for a bit after before we went to Long Beach to see our friend Cindy. Back in the day when we were young(er), we used to party our asses off together. There are a lot of crazy memories!

Next day me & my sister did a whole day of shopping. My sister loves shiny stuff as much as I do, so the rhinestone shops in Downtown were our first stop. The parking lot was managed by a nice Mexican guy and we talked about Mexico for about 20min and petted his sweet dog!

We were out all day and crashed to bed when back at the hotel.

Since I didn’t know how the traffic back to Las Vegas was going to be before New Years, we decided to make it an early start and left at 03.30 in the morning… Not a lot of traffic at this time 🙂

Took a 2h nap when back though! Hit the gym later and also played pickleball. I was pretty damn good for once 🙂 Then I took my sister to the spa for some red light sauna and cold plunge.

Watched ‘One Battle After Another’ last night. I liked it a lot. De Caprio, Sean Penn and Benicio are great. I’m bad at writing short captions about a movie so google it if it’s something up your alley 🙂

We are going to get mani/pedis soon to make sure we enter 2026 in style 🙂 Going over to Angel’s later and we’ll see if we make it until midnight LOL… What are your plans? Got any resolutions? I plan to keep focusing on my health. Strength training and improving my pickeballing. Hope to start doing pilates and eating healthy. Maybe even laying off vaping because it’s a bit out of control ugh! I hope to be off the Prednisone pills too asap. Next weekend I’m off to Hawaii too 🙂 Very excited about that.

I wish you a fantastic New Years Eve whatever your plans are and the best start on 2026!

XXX Puma