I’m only posting because I’ve made it 25 days, and I’m going to finish out the month, but I’m too tired to write a real post. The short story–visited both babies yesterday; had lunch today with my much-missed former coworker visiting from Georgia; spent the rest of the day at the hospital with a friend.
I’m cross-posting this with my knitting blog, because I’m too tired to write a real post for that blog, either.
Bogglific is refusing to load on Facebook. Phooey.
I’m deeply immersed in the holiday season–I’ve downloaded 27 new Christmas songs from iTunes (including classics from Dean Martin, Burl Ives, and Bing Crosby); I watched White Christmas and A Muppet Christmas Carol yesterday; I wrote out 28 holiday cards (although they still need sealing, return addresses and stamps). And it’s only November 25th.
I started a knitting project yesterday, worked on it for three hours, then frogged it ’cause it just wasn’t working for me. Which sucks, because the yarn is a PITA to work with, and now I have to start all over again. *sigh*
My plan for today is to make several trips to the dumpster, try to make a dent in the pile of dirty dishes, and visit Gracie. Maybe in that order, maybe not.
Holy crap! I can’t even remember the last time I was able to see my desk! I’ve been doing Christmas cards–for the first time since my mom died, so it’s kind of a big deal to me–and my hand is tired from writing out addresses and Merry-Christmasses, so I was looking for labels with my return address. You know the ones–they’re usually sent by charitable organizations looking for donations, and you open the envelope and think, Oh cool, these’ll come in handy someday, as you throw the rest of the contents away, and you put the labels in a drawer somewhere. Then, when someday arrives, like today, you go looking for those labels and can’t find them anywhere! I swear they have little sensors on them that self-destruct when you ignore the plea for a donation. But on the bright side, my desk is, while not clean, a hell of a lot clearer than it’s been in years.
Yesterday, as I mentioned, I put up the Christmas tree. Last night, when I returned from the tree lighting ceremony in Old Town Pasadena and the Festival of Lights at Griffith Park, I put it up again–didn’t take the cats long to knock that sucker down! At least they didn’t break anything this time. I’ve moved it to the middle of the room, where hopefully they won’t be as likely to knock it down. It was still up when I awoke this morning, so that’s a plus–although two ornaments were knocked down.
I have more cards to write out, so I leave you with one of my favorite displays from the Festival Lights:
And if you’d like a holiday card and you have my email address, send me your snail mail! I’ve got a bazillion cards and not nearly enough addresses to go with them! 😀
It’s the day after, and I’m regretting saying no to leftovers. Ah well. There’s yogurt in the fridge.
I just finished assembling and decorating my little four foot tree (three and a half, really). I’m too tired and lazy to upload a picture right now, so I’ve posted a picture of it from last year instead. I decided to forgo the star this year, because it’s heavier than the tree and makes it wobble in a scary way, so I’m in the market for a new treetopper. Not quite sure yet what I’m looking for.
Yesterday was good, btw. Had dinner with friends and an adorable baby, had PIE, and made plans for tonight to view fun Christmas lights. Spent this morning using up my iTunes credit on new (to me) Christmas music to augment my growing sappy Christmas music collection.
That’s about the it. I may go nap now.
Things I am thankful for:
Have a good turkey day!