Post Christmas Blues

Ahhh.....December 26. Christmas is over. I slept in. And I mean waaaaay in!! Unfortunately that was coupled with waking up grumpy. What's that you say? I'm always grumpy? Why yes, you are correct. Silly me.

Today I should start taking down the Christmas decorations. I know, it's a bit of a Bah Humbug attitude, but didn't we just agree on my perpetual grumpiness? I thought so. I've actually spent the past four or five days looking at our Christmas tree and dreading taking the ornaments off. Maybe I should bookmark this particular entry and read it next November/December as a reminder not to decorate. My house always looks messy anyway, then I add decorations and a gigantahuge tree. Where does it go???? I have a laundry basket full of Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hanukkah books and all my cute Little People toys can't seem to find a home. I need baskets!! And someone to follow behind me constantly picking up the stuff that falls in my wake.

I think the girls succeeded in playing with every one of their Christmas gifts except for the volcano and chemistry sets. And that was only because mom and dad put their collective foot down! Justin bought the three of us girls a laptop. Yay! Tomorrow I'll go to the store and get a few things for it: mouse, wireless internet stuff, whatever else Justin marked in the Home DepotMax ad...... So much to do! And so little desire to do any of it.

This week I need to work on our Christmas letter. I have the rough draft written, just need to get it on the computer. I even have the pictures developed. I want to print labels for the backs of the pictures. Maybe by the end of the week I'll be able to mail them. Guess I should change that first sentence to read "New Year" letter. But I'll get them out, I swear!!

I can't wait til January 1st so I can use my new Anne Taintor calendars. One for the wall by my desk and one for my purse. I went through my other wall calendar and made sure I put all that info in my two new calendars. Takayo sent us a beautiful calendar as well. Need to figure out where to put that one. I do need to make a change to all my calendars---the last day of school as been moved from June 15 to June 19 I think. Snow days. Gotta love 'em.

Any bets on how much I'll get accomplished today? Especially considering it's 2:03 pm already. Justin helped me realize that all of our Christmas dishes will fit in our uppermost kitchen cabinets. Whew. That frees up an entire storage tub. That will make my task a little bit easier. Probably should get a start on all of that. Keep my mind off eating too. Although I did just eat a big lunch.....you'd think that would be enough to keep me away from the snacks. I realized the other day that the three month subscription to Weight Watchers online was probably expiring and if I didn't put an end to it I'd get charged again. Then I decided that I really should keep it and use it. What a concept! So if I lose just two pounds a month I can have my new tattoo before next Christmas! Wish me luck.

Another task to tackle: any clothing hanging in my closet that has a layer of dust on it can go to Goodwill. Makes sense, right? Too bad that doesn't get me any money to purchase some new clothes. Sounds like I need some shopping trips to the thrift stores! After the girls are both in school.

Yikes! Dog is barking like mad. Ah, dog in backyard. Hmmm, not sure who's it is. Nice looking dog though. Might belong to somebody working on the house next door.

Really. Getting to work now. I swear! Thanks for reading the world's most boring blog entry.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
-- Frank McKinney Hubbard