November 30th, 2007
It is now December, and Christmas Madness can officially begin! Today’s Christmas madness will be the clearing of a space for Mr Castlegar and his subsequent assembling. He’ll go in the corner where the chair no one sits in currently resides (the chair will be relegated to the office, also known as the room that tidiness forgot). I bought eggnog and Husband is bringing home some rum, so it should be good times around here by about 8pm when we soddenly try to put together our tree. I will of course put on the Christmas music and perhaps take some pictures of the madness for your enjoyment. I might even be lucky enough to score a snap of Husband giving me his “Jesus you’re crazy” face when I start mooning over the tree.
Tomorrow we’re having a few family members over for the official tree decorating party. I already have some spaghetti sauce on the stove simmering, and salad stuff in the fridge. I’m in classes tomorrow but after I get home it should be a snap to get dinner on the table for the 7 or 8 people we’ll be feeding. After dinner we’ll pull out all my ornaments, most of which are new, and attack Mr Castlegar with them. I need to get some emotional stuff into those ornaments, you know? They don’t have any tradition associated with them because they’re brand new, but I hope to kick start that process with a group decorating event.
I still don’t have a tree topper though. Might be a wired octopus again this year. I also don’t have much in the way of household decorations. I got a couple of Christmas themes dish towels and a hand towel for the bathroom, but I have a huge bare mantel with nothing on it, and no wreath for the door. Must get a wreath!