Is everyone
ready for Christmas? This goes beyond buying presents and sending out cards.
Because I’m stubborn and… Well, let’s just say I’m stubborn. When I go to the
store, I make a point of telling everyone “Merry Christmas.” You know what?
Most people say it back. The heck with the political correctness of saying, “Happy
Holidays.”
Anyway, there
are other things to get out of the way. This morning I dyed my hair. Yes, I’ll
probably be a blonde until the day I die, and my roots won’t show when I
celebrate Christmas this year. I was born blonde and I’m staying that way. When
I dye my hair, I wrap some of the faded ends with foil. That way my hair isn’t
all the same color which would make it look
dyed. So I came down stairs with foil sticking out and dye on the rest of my hair.
My daughter did a double take, so I told her I was waiting for the Mother Ship.
Oh well… Gotta find humor somewhere.
We put up
some Christmas decorations, but we won’t have a tree this year. The dogs would
rip it to shreds. They understand boundaries, but only if it has to do with
something they don’t really want anyway. I have a few tattered books (a sin, to
be sure) that Murphy has enjoyed gnawing on. Sugar would think anything sparkly
is made that way just to get her attention. Our little one, Clementine, is a
Chiwienie (half Chihuahua and half Dachshund). She’ll chew up anything she’s
tall enough to reach or that she can pull out of the doggie toy box. Yes, we
live in our own version of a zoo.
One of these
days Clem will become a character in a book. I have a feeling she’ll have a
crush on Bubba in the Sandi Webster series, just like the real Clem has a crush
on Murphy.
Christmas
baking should be coming up soon; however, I’ve found that the older I get, the
less I enjoy cooking and baking. Oh, well, the guy next door came over and used
his leaf blower on my yard and driveway without being asked. His kids deserve
some Christmas treats. I guess we do, too. Hate the work but love the result.
We put some
decorations on the front porch, but I haven’t plugged them in over the past couple
of days because it was just too cold to go out and unplug them later in the
evening. We’ve had snow twice during the last week. Not a lot, but enough to
cause the schools to close. I lived in Northern Nevada for about twenty-five
years and I’m used to driving in the snow. Unfortunately, nature’s little gift
isn’t a common occurrence here, so many people have no idea how to drive in it.
This makes for an interesting ride.
When my
husband retired, we moved to Arizona. Now I live in Washington state. Moving
from Arizona to Washington has turned out to be quite an experience. I’d
forgotten what it’s like to live in a state where it rains often, snows
occasionally (where I live), and becomes cold.
I mentioned
Murphy and his propensity to chew up books earlier. He also loves tissues. I
dropped a box of tissues on the floor the other night and he swooped in like an
eagle, grabbing the box and running. We had a little tussle over that one
before I got the box back. Unfortunately for me, he weighs as much as I do. I
won’t divulge the exact figure. Let’s just say he’s over a hundred pounds. This
leads me to mention that the decorations we’ve put out are set in high places,
where he can’t reach them.
Well, those are
Christmas preparations at our house. It’s been interesting.
Do you have
any special preparations that are out of the ordinary at your house? Or are
there limitations about what you can display?
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Until next
time, I hope you find some great sales in the stores and that you finish
shopping early so you can sit back and relax. Uh huh, like we’re all going to
relax.
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