Go you with the tree, Calli! And the crystal ropes! We get a real one, so we have a few weeks to wait, still. But I like to keep it up through New Year's, so I don't mind waiting.

I can see that, msbelle. I just don't have a lot of desire to see Billy Elliot as a musical when I can see the movie.

Announcement: I'm back from Joshua Tree/Palm Springs with Pix where much fun was had.
Analysis: I need to have mini-vacations and spa treatments more often.

I think this year, I'm not going to do a tree, if only because of the clean up involved. But I'll still set up the creche, and probably put up the lights along the picture rails or something.

BTW, thanks to whomever brought up SecondSpin months ago. That has turned out to be a nice little way to get rid of unwanted CDs and DVDs and pick up a little cash along the way. Wish I knew of it before the big move.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Birthday, Daisy Jane!

I have enough Xmas ornaments for two trees, at least. It's some kind of sickness. I actually contemplated having an Xmas party so I could put up two trees, but I realized I was thinking crazy.

That's not crazy, that's double the Christmas fun!

Happy Thanksgiving and Daisy Jane Birthday!

I am at the theatre sewing :(.

I can't believe I'm watching the Roots do a medley of Christmas songs in the Macy's parade.

I momentarily read this as the cast of Roots and was imagining LeVar Burton and Cicely Tyson!

No tree for us this year, but I'm decorating this weekend. CJ thinks I'm silly, but I don't care. As soon as his episode of Mythbusters is over, I'm popping in Pangs. Don't care if he calls me silly for that, either.

That's not crazy, that's double the Christmas fun!

Don't enable me, megan. It's a slippery slope to theme trees and Xmas sweaters.

Happy Thanksgiving, U.Sians!

Happy Birthday, Daisy!

I think I may put up my pink tree again this weekend!

I miss the scent of real Christmas trees, but I don't miss cleaning up the fallen needles. One year my parents put up a beautiful blue spruce. The needles were tough and sharp as tacks. We were stepping on them through March. Pity, because the look and smell of the blue spruce were hard to beat. I guess the needles are their natural defense against the Christmas decorating industry. If I ever spend Christmas in my own place I'll get a balsam fir. Traveling for several days over Christmas makes putting up a real tree problematic.

I have an apple tart in the oven. I think dinner will be around one: turkey (from a microwavable package), dressing, gravy, peas, a fresh baked roll or two, and apple tart with cream. Plus early afternoon wine, for that extra touch of decadence. I could bake a sweat potato or some winter squash, but my stomach's gonna approach critical mass as it is.