Relaxing…

Dear me:

I’m so exhausted already and it’s only mid-afternoon… Veg’ing on my sofa and sipping red wine…  After a long day of Christmas decorating there’s no other way to relax than that…

I just finished putting up my Christmas tree…  What an accomplishment!  But half way through, I had to run out and get lights.  I avoid the stores like a plague on Black Friday, but I needed lights to finish the tree…  Got dressed and went to the closest store.  Wasn’t all that bad.  I was back in a flash… I was determined to finish today…

Yippee…  Finally done…  Tomorrow I’ll tackle the outside…

In the meantime, I’m having leftover turkey, cranberry salad, and the mashed potato.  So nice…  Also, trying to relax, but my fingers don’t want to stop typing…  Guess I will not be resting after all…

I had a hellish week…  Monday morning I get up and went to get the coffee can out of the fridge and I dropped my organic bottle of cranberry juice all over the fridge, walls, and floor.  I was half asleep, but boy did that wake me up suddenly.  Have you ever seen organic cranberry juice?  Well!  Let me tell you, it is dark…  It also stains if it’s not cleaned up right away.  Spent the next half hour picking up glass and mopping…  Came home in the evening and the floor was still sticky.  Had to re-mop all over again…  Not fun…

The following morning I knocked the alarm clock on my tile floor.  I shook it hoping it didn’t break.  Nothing sounded broken so I put it back and went downstairs to make my coffee.  This time, I knocked over a bottle of corona on the floor again.  I spent another half hour cleaning…   Couldn’t believe my luck…  Had to re-mop in the evening too….  Sandals kept sticking on the floor as I walked…  Not a good thing…

When I went to set my alarm clock before going to bed, the darn thing wouldn’t work.  Guess I did break it after all…  Thank Goodness for cell phones….  Until I get a new alarm clock my cell phone will have to do…  Don’t know how we lived without it ten years ago…

I tell my co-worker Wednesday morning about my experiences and she begins by telling me that breaking the dark juice bottle represented getting rid of dark moments.  The beer represented an emptying and paving the way for something new.  According to her the broken clock meant, “It was about time”…  Wow!  All that from three broken items…  I am going through some things right now, perhaps she’s right…  I will not rule anything out…  I just hope I don’t continue this streak since mopping every morning and night is not my idea of a good time…

Have to admit – I had a terrific time with mom.  I picked her up Wednesday night and we went to dinner at a local restaurant.  I took her on some errands and made it home in time for Wheel of Fortune…  Didn’t win any of the three prizes…  But I will….

Mom made me laugh so much…  She was looking for her water-glass and she couldn’t find it…  She comes up to me and asks if I threw it out.  I couldn’t stop laughing…  Cause I sure did…  I have so many sets of glasses and she refuses to use any, hence I just threw her weird one out…  Guess now she wont have a choice but to use the ones I have…  Then, she goes upstairs to look for her red turtleneck cause she freezes overnight with the air on 72 and couldn’t find it…  Well!  I’m the culprit again.  I’ve had an ache on my neck and I’ve been putting Vick’s on it every night for the past week, but I haven’t wanted to get my hair stinky so I used her turtleneck to sleep in…  I also cut the sleeves off since I’m always hot..  Can’t stand long sleeves…  Hot flashes in the middle of the night are not fun… She just kept wondering what else I had thrown out without telling her.   We had such a good laugh.  She hates Vick’s.  She says it makes you smell like an old person..  Wow!  How old do you think she is?  She’s 75 going on 40…  She cracks me up….  I want to be just like her when I grow up…

Wait til I tell my kids about their grandmother and what I did to her.  They’ll tell me to leave their grandmother alone….  I’ll tell them to take her for a week and they’ll refuse too…  Then they stop complaining…  Such fun..  This is what life is all about…  Those little wonderful moments full of laughter…  Wouldn’t trade them for anything…

Missed my kids/grandkids terribly this Thanksgiving…  But my little munchkin did say he liked flying and wanted to come see his grandmother.   Oh!  He misses me…  Can’t wait to see them…  My son also called a couple of times, he must have been missing me too…  How nice is that…  I love them so very much…  Maybe next holiday we can all be together…

Alright!  Better stop and take a nap…  Tomorrow will be another great day…  No more accidents….  My kitchen is super clean now…

My completed tree….

Angel as a tree topper…