It was cold when I was dragged from bed this morning by the dog. I'm tired. Too tired for the amount of sleep I am getting. The dude and I are leaving for two weeks in England toward the end of the month. I'm trying to figure out what to do about decorating. The prospect of arriving home in mid-January and taking down the tree(s)...sucks. We've already canceled the
Boxing Day celebration that we usually host--it would be insane to host 14 people the day before we left. I think. (Maybe I'm learning something?) But now all those odd jobs--repaint the wall in the kitchen, hem the drapes, hang the blinds in the bedroom--that I thought would get done because we were having people over are now off the list. Still, December promises to be a long month.
So, some choices:
- I could suck it up and put up both trees and all the trimmings.
- I could do one tree, but which? The snowmen? The handmade ornaments*? (Stella is the wild card in this equation.)
- I could just put out the table top decorations; no trees.
- I could hang a wreath on the door and call it a day.
Please tell me that a few viewings of
White Christmas will have me humming under my breath and spreading yuletide cheer very very soon.
Those of you familiar with the back catalog will probably tell me I have this issue every December: "Suck it up already!"
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Sorry, old photo