I watched "Elf" the other day as I was putting up my tree. Well, actually my sister was putting up my tree and the lights and the decorations... come to think of it, I don't think that I did anything that day to help. What kind of Christmas spirit do I have?!?!
I feel a little off this Christmas season. Usually I am all about decorating and shopping and making treats, but this year has been a little slow to start. I was a baking fiend around Thanksgiving and then after it was over I kind of lost the interest. Maybe it was because I baked 2 pies, 1 tart and a cheese cake for Thanksgiving. Maybe I got a little "baked out". But, this is the time when I should be spreading Christmas cheer, right?
I am feeling a little under the weather this week. I have been fighting an irritating cold that myluv has had since Thanksgiving and I think it has finally hit me. I have been taking "Airborne" and it has really been helping. Its an immune boosting beverage. I fill a small juice glass with water and then drop in this tablet that makes the water fuzz and bubble and the water turns a greenish/yellowish color that tastes similar to "Tang". I try to drink it in 5 or 6 gulps, because if I sipped it, I'd never finish it.
So, my tree is up, but I am not happy with the decorations... again, this year is just a little off. I think that I need to take everything off it (except the lights) and start over. My mom said to me yesterday (right after her tree fell over) that her trees always look better the second time she decorates. Maybe this will work for me too. We also don't have any lights up on the house yet and its supposed to snow the entire weekend. Maybe this year we'll just stick with the wreath on the front door and call it good. Then again, maybe myluv will feel well enough tomorrow to hang some lights up on the house, maybe.
Its Lucy's first Christmas and I feel like I should be so excited and possibly even overzealous about her enjoying the season. Her Grandma bought her some snow pants and a coat that matches. We wanted to take her outside with the last snowfall to take picture of her in the snow for the very fist time, but didn't because we've both been sick. Maybe if there is enough snow this weekend then we can do it tomorrow or Sunday or something.
Maybe I am failing as a mother for the First Christmas... I wanted it to be magical and spectacular and all of those things that you see in the movies... but here I am, trying to not get more sick than I already am and Lucy is asleep in her bed.... I should be decorating the house so when she wakes up she will be in awe with all the decorations. But, really... I'll probably make myself a cup of cocoa and sip it until the feeling goes away.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Christmas Time is Here
The Essence of Fall
We took these pictures this weekend... Nuf said.
Mike is taking the computer with him again today so, I don't have nearly enough time to write my full post. He keeps taking it to work with him because he is using it for a film he has been working on... its too complicated to really explain. Just know that I have only had a computer for like 2 days out of the last month, which explains my lack of new posts. Anyway, enjoy the pictures, I know that I do.
I know, I suck!
So, I was reprimanded last night while I was talking to tracifree on the phone. She scolded me for not posting anything new lately and then left a comment about an hour ago on the post just before this one stating the same disgust with my lack of new posts.
Now, I wanted to do this whole update with pictures and all, but the truth of the matter is that all the pictures we have are on the "mac" side of this computer and I can't figure out how to down size them so I can post them anywhere!!! When I say anywhere I actually mean I can't post them here or on my family website.
So, I need to wait for Mikey to get home so that he can convert them and then I can post them along with a real post where I actually have something to say other than an apology. I have quite a few run-on sentences in this post. Maybe that's what this post can be about... run-on sentences. I love run-on sentences and the truth of that matter is that sometimes I can't figure out how to end my sentence which is why it keeps going and going and going and going.... kinda like this one. That's prolly most peoples problem with run-on sentences.
the end.
Fall Previews
I have turned into a t.v. junkie and not for just any television.
For Network television!!!
I have been an HBO snob for so long that I forgot what Network television was like, and now I can't help myself. I'm not going to go into the wide assortment of programs that I find myself watching throughout the day... see, these are the effects of a DVR. The reason that I never watched Network television before was because I didn't have the time. Now that I have the DVR I don't have to have the time... I can watch it whenever I happen to have the time. I just record it and then watch it whenever! It rocks, but then it doesn't.
This is quite the little kerfuffle that I cause on a daily basis. Now, I could be spending my time when Tucy is napping, with other things... like folding laundry or washing the dishes or something productive, but instead I find myself plopped in front of that blessed 65" screen, watching, watching, watching... until she wakes up.
Then I am frustrated, because I haven't done anything that I had planned and I spend the rest of the night kicking myself for having to cram all those chores into the hour and a half before Mike gets home, so I can spend some quality time with him where he doesn't mention the fact that I haven't done anything that day.
But, today! Today I actually accomplished something before that blessed nap. I did stuff! The stuff isn't all that important, but it was productive stuff and it made me feel like I did accomplish something today! Something like stuff! Stuff feels good to do, especially before the husband gets home from work. That stuff feels fantastic!
Anyway... Fall Previews have been a curse for me, until today. Today the Fall Previews took a backseat to the stuff. yay me!