Post Christmas end of the year blues...

[lapfog_1]

What I dislike most about the period from Christmas day until after Jan 1.

The year in review wrap-ups.

Especially the "in memorial" stories that recap the notable people we lost.

Each year the lists include more people that I will really miss. People that I knew as a teenager or even as a young adult.

Now the lists often include many people younger than me.

[MontanaMama]

1. I am with you.

"The year in review" always makes me melancholy. I usually steer clear of tv at year's end because of it. Lord knows we don't need to see any more of Dotard and company and all they have "accomplished" than we have already seen. I'm still super sad about Tom Petty. Sigh. 😔

[lapfog_1]

2. Bill Paxton, Don Rickles, Chuck Berry...

[Freddie]

4. Mary Tyler Moore, Jerry Lewis, Tom Petty...

Lots of losses this year. Hoping for no more like we lost George Michael, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds at the very end of 2016.

[MontanaMama]

5. Yep.

Damn.....

[elfin]

3. Feel that. Just saw one of those memorial shorts on TCM after an old Joseph Cotton movie

So many whom I had not noticed throughout the year. Ouch!

Also saw Amanpour's year-end PBS show that I had recorded - global leaders assessing our damaging position on climate change. Another Ouch.

Good thing I recorded "Singing in the Rain" to cheer me up -- but then Gene Kelly AND Debbie Reynolds, both previously gone - ouch, ouch.

Saw new Star Wars - Carrie Fisher - ouch again.

Inescapable dammit.