Daughter #1 decided to postpone her party tonight till a time in January when she is feeling better. She has been sick all week with a sore throat and a head cold and is finally feeling better but thought better of having a bunch of girls over and staying awake until 3 a.m. after such a short time since she has been feeling better. As a result we do not have a bunch of hyper teens here in the house this evening. we have decorating the new tree off and on since I put it up yesterday.... (more about that later). But as a result Teapot and I decided to have fun watching movies as we usually do on Friday night. tonight choice was the Karate Kid (the new version) and The Expendables. We have not watched the Karate Kid yet. Teapot and the Daughters are watching the end of the Expendables..... I am not. It is a violent disgusting movie and quite frankly they are watching it against my better judgment. It is not worth my time. I can take some pretty bad violence in movie.... I did watch Kill Bill, and enjoyed it but this is just bad. I think it is a little too realistic. So here I sit ignoring the shooting and loud explosions in the background. But ignore it I will.
Christmas continues in disarray at the Nicholsville farm. The tree.... aah yes, the tree. Teapot picked it up yesterday and I am quite pleased. 7 minutes from the time it came through the door till it was standing in the corner of my living room seems like an awfully good set up time to me. We have named our tree AElfred (the AE is that Saxon thing). It is a non-assuming tree and quite polite standing there in the corner and already it grows on me.... I am happy to embrace plastic when it looks this good. Teapot surprised me today by coming home with a bit of green.... real green. We have a wreath a real one and I'll be honest... the green makes it more like the Christmases of old. At least a tree didn't have to die... it just got pruned. Teapot was in Victoria last week and I was so disappointed when he said that he could have picked Holly for us and brought it home.... this too would have been a treat... but the wreath makes up for it anyway. One year we had a real sprig of Mistletoe.... and that was nice too. See, these are the kind of treats that are real Christmas gifts.
The garlands are on the railings of the stairwell and the lights are up.... tomorrow there will be the rest of the decorations going up and I will be glad when it is done. Glomitts are coming along nicely and I expect that there will be a scarf started on Sunday.... all is well in Christmas land.... and Murphy and is crew of errant elves (dressed as dust bunnies) have been fed a turkey dinner laced with poppy seeds and unfortunately for them and fortunately for me.... they are out of commission till next year... at least I hope so!
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