Sunday, December 1, 2013
Welcome Christmas
Today is December 1st - and I begin getting ready for Christmas. Up until now I have been getting ready for Thanksgiving - but that's over now. I just got out my Christmas cd's. My husband is putting up the outside lights. After that he is going to get the boxes out with inside decorations. We have an artificial tree - so I can begin decorating it right away. It's a big one and I can hardly wait to get started. I also have a skinny tree in my bedroom to decorate. I will be buying Christmas cards this week so we can get started on them. I will begin Christmas shopping soon. We do a lot of gift cards so that will make shopping easier. I've started to get excited now about Christmas. I will be happy to get my tree up and decorated. That is the highlight of the year. The Christmas Eve church service is the best part of the true meaning of Christmas. We will not have the family here this year - but it will be just as special. Christmas is from the heart and I will be happy to have it come anyway. So here goes - Welcome Christmas - I'm ready for you.
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Sorry about the above. Had trouble posting ever since my husband added a new email for the business.
Christmas hasn't excited me for some time now. It hasn't been the same since the girls grew up. Nowadays I can't seem to gin up enthusiasm for it.
Cube - I can understand that. But having a Christmas tree, the outside decorations and Christmas carols still make me feel good about it.
It's the gifts that have not made me excited anymore.
And the Christmas story is always the same - it's always good.
I'm glad you enjoy the Christmas trimmings. I don't like dealing with the mess that the girls make and that I end up having to clean up.
Once Christmas is over, I'm the one that has to put the tree decorations away because everyone makes themselves scarce.
The gifts don't excite me either.
Just call me Ebenezer.
Cube - I also have to clean up the mess and put away the decorations. But that's the only way they will get done. I'm over the gift part. We give a lot of gift cards and I only get what they say they want. I don't enjoy Christmas shopping anymore.
I feel like Ebenezer sometimes also.
I'm enjoying the Christmas season in my own terms.
I just saw another car with a little tree on top drive by... does that lift my mood... no, I don't think so. I'm still Ebenezer. ;-)
Now - Cube - I don't believe you are an Ebenezer. I'll give you a week or so and you will be in the Christmas spirit. You just have to give it a little push and you'll have some of that old Christmas spirit. I'm lighting a candle every day for a little while and lighting up the Christmas tree. Plus playing my Christmas cd's. Remember - it only comes once a year. Ho Ho Ho.
I'm not betting money on my lack of enthusiasm about Christmas getting better, but we'll see if time will tell...
My youngest has a pine candle going and it's very nice. I love the smell.
There you see - that's a start. A candle burning with a nice scent.
I just lit a candle myself. Helps to get me in the Christmas mood.
I'm not putting a lot of decorations out this year since the family will not be coming. Just enough to make me feel like it's Christmas.
You could do the same - you know -
Scrooge.
Who knows... maybe I'll get there.
Off topic: How in the *uck am I supposed to read some of these verification words...it's insanity!
Cube - If I can't read them I just type in a few letters and then click on it. Then a new set of letters comes up. I do that until I get some that I can read.
They are really frustrating - aren't they.
I think you'll get there. It's still early. Scrooge didn't get it until Christmas day. So there's hope for you yet.
If it's really weird, I type in some letters and wait for the second iteration. It's just frustrating.
I guess I'm going to be visited by ghosts this Christmas. I always said I wouldn't believe in them unless I saw them for myself. They better show themselves.
Cube - Why wait for them to come on Christmas eve. Try to get in the spirit now. Are you putting your tree up? Do you send Christmas cards? Listen to Christmas music? Yesterday I put on the Christmas section of Handel's Messiah. That's a good one.
Or some peppy Christmas music such as Elton John's Christmas party. That's also a good one.
The ghosts can come any time they want. I'll believe them when I see them.
Funny that you would mention Elton John. During Thanksgiving we were short two chairs and the fold up chairs had been left outside and nobody wanted to clean them. We ended up using the office chairs at the ends of the table.
First thing in my mind was I had to sit at the throne. OK, then the phrase from the Elton John song came to mind, "Prima donna lord you really should've been there, sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair".
It made look up 'Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy' again.
This one's for you, Sue! Merry Christmas!
nad this one is for the "people's Cube". ;)
Cube - We always have to dig around for chairs when we all are here. Two of the kids have to sit at the kitchen counter and we even have to roll in my desk chair for the meal.
I'm not familiar with the Elton John you quoted.
I know what you mean. It happens to us every year. And we had two invites who couldn't make it. Also my youngest sister, her husband and son couldn't make it because her in-laws were visiting from out of town and felt obligated to cook at her house. Had they shown up, we would've have had to wash those fold up chairs from outside.
The Elton John reference is from the song, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight." Except for that song, it was pretty obscure album.
Cube - Check out the Christmas poem that I am posting.
Maybe it will get you in the Christmas spirit.
Maybe not. : ]
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