12.21.2009

Christmas? Hello? is this thing on...

Here it is December 21st and I haven't posted one sinlge thing about Christmas yet. WTF? I don't know what's up this year, but I haven't yet gone into my usual overly enthusiastic Christmas mode. The Christmas season started out promising...

The day after Thanksgiving, Daniel and I went to The Christmas Spectacular at the Grand Ole Opry. Indeed it was spectacular and produced a fair amount of Christmas excitement. Then a few days later we were supposed to go to the annual nighttime Nashville Christmas Parade but we totally punked out because it was just too goddamn cold. The Christmas spirit has sort of petered out since that night...

I guess the biggest obstacle that has kept me from a full-contact embrace of Christmas this year is our house. I don't have the time or the energy or the motivation to decorate a house that is still in relative shambles. My grandparents are visiting directly after Christmas and we are still removing wallpaper glue from the walls of the guest bedroom. Blah. Believe it or not, it's actually fairly challenging to work a full time job, renovate a house, and still maintain tidy and organized living conditions wherein the dishes are done, the laundry is folded, the hairballs are non-existent, and the bathrooms are sanitary. Throw Christmas into the mix and forget about it!

We don't have a tree. We don't have stockings. We don't have Christmas cookies. We don't have swags of fragrant greenery or berries or ribbons or anything at all.

We did manage to throw a wreath on the front door a couple of weeks ago. And this past weekend we put up a few strings of lights on our front porch in between our bouts of glue removal. That's it. That's all I got.

It's a little disappointing not to be having a grand first Christmas in our new house this year, but really all I want for Christmas is a clean, wall-paper free, relatively put together and organized house.

If only Santa could spare some elves to help make it happen!

8 comments:

Gibbarella said...

I know exactly what you mean. We do have a tree but it has taken me weeks to decorate it for some reason and not one light on the exterior of our house. I am still out shopping for presents for gods sake and the presents that have managed to buy have been needing to be shipped since Thanksgiving. No Christmas cards have been filled out so you are way ahead of me missy. Seems everyone needs santa's elves this year.

Terah Lynn said...

I'm so glad that I'm not alone...I just can't seem to get it together for Christmas this year. There's always next year, right?!?

Jennifer said...

Cookies? I've got cookies for ya!! Don't worry..there is always next year (and the year after that...) I remember the year we remodeled and added the bathroom, I threw lights on a ficus tree! If you find any elves, please have them swing by here as well.

As for cleaning, I highly recommend the Roomba! Gotta get a roomba!!!

Mars Girl said...

When my parents were still in the process of building their house (the inside part), they decorated a really tall step-ladder as a tree. It was cute.

I am glad I'm not the only one who hasnt fully embraced Christmas. I just thought it was because recently completely broke off relations with a formerly romantic relationship AND I went to Utah for a week skiing and therefore forgot about Christmas... But it seems everyone is feeling out of sorts this year. Even on other blogs I read!!

Mars Girl said...

When my parents were still building the inside part of their house (as in, drywalling walls and such), they decorated a tall (10-15 foot) step ladder as a Christmas tree. That was cute. I think it was Christmas 2000 cuz I remember Mike being there and I dont think that was our first Christmas together.

Here I just thought it was my widow brooding that caused a personal lack of spirit this year. Or the fact that I totally stopped even being friends with a former romantic entanglement (because he behaved like a jackass). Or the fact that I was skiing in Utah on vacation all last week, therefore totally forgetting about Christmas. It seems everyone is feeling the same way. A lot of other blogs I read have been saying the same thing. Wonder what's going on with everyone!

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Mars Girl said...

Yeah. I figured that out when I actually read the screen. Dar.

Rachel said...

Since you don't have a tree yet, consider buying a potted tree and then you can plant it in your yard and it will be a annual reminder of your first Christmas Tree in your first house. I know you worked really hard to get that house. I'm still trying to purchase thru NACA, but I think 2010 will be my year.

BTW, I can't claim this idea as mine. My 4-year old suggested getting a potted tree so we wouldn't have to kill a tree for Christmas and I thought, yeah... when we get our house, that's what we'll do for our first Christmas in our first home and we'll decorate it every year.