Christmas Countdown - 2018

[Holiday]

Merry Monday and back to reality today!! I am just working today and my daughter has basketball practice tonight. My husband made a big pot of turkey soup so we will have that for dinner and some crusty bread. Hope you all have a great day...I am planning on doing a little cyber Monday shopping!

Oh man...this just brought back a memory of mom/dads turkey bone soup. Soooo good! I might have to make a turkey just to make the soup!
I hope all is well with you!

 

[Holiday]

Merry Monday!
I hope your day went well! xx

It did, once I started playing hooky! Ha ha!

Merry Monday!

Woke up to a major snow storm blowing through the woods. It was gorgeous out and made me want to go on a sleigh ride.

Ended up with 10 inches or more of snow and several fallen tree limbs. Lost electricity for over five hours so that set me way back on all my projects scheduled for today. At least I was home and not out and about in all the mess! I watched it snow and snuggled with Palmer, so it was a very good day!

Have a merry week, my friends!

10" of snow??? I'm glad you were able to be at home, snuggling with Palmer! ♥
Hope you faired the snow storm ok & all is good at your house.
Have a great day M!

 

[Holiday]

Good morning ~
Merry Tuesday!
It’s going to be cloudy today with a high of 46, we’re currently at 41 degrees. Thankfully it isn’t too cold out, we don’t have heat in the house right now since we’re in the middle of converting from oil to gas. The workers are coming back today to finish, everything should be up and running by this evening. Hopefully we’ll save some money after converting! So I’ll be stuck in the house again all day. We finally got a Christmas tree up yesterday, so far so good with Rocky. We’ll see what this puppy does when we pull the lights and ornaments out today. Fingers crossed he behaves!
I hope everyone is well and has a nice day!
xx

I hope your heat is up & running! Brrrrrr!!!
The little saint Rocky would never bother your tree!!!

 

[Holiday]

Good Tuesday morning, Christmas friends!

It's finally clear outside, and cold for south Georgia! It was 32°F when I went to work. I even had ice on my windshield...that's almost unheard-of in November!

I blew my chance to shop for Cyber Monday, so I'll have to shop the old-fashioned way; go to the store.

I hope y'all have a great day!

There's always Amazon. LOL! Have a great day Brad!

 

[Holiday]

Good Morning, MMC!!! It’s a snowy morning here in central Indy. Luckily we should only get about an inch. I cleaned up the mess I made while decorating yesterday. Now today I have another Christmas project to knock out and I think I’m going to start wrapping too. I hope everyone has a great day!!

Enjoy a snowy Christmassy day! It's snowing here too! ♥

 

[Holiday]

Bless your heart, I know you miss your mom. I hope you can find a way to try to enjoy Christmas this year.

Awe, thanks Brad. We sure do miss her! ♥ With my big crazy family, we will still have a good one, just a different one!

 

[SnowflakeMom]

Oh man...this just brought back a memory of mom/dads turkey bone soup. Soooo good! I might have to make a turkey just to make the soup!
I hope all is well with you!

Hope you are doing ok too, Holiday! Been thinking of you...
Have a great Tuesday!

 

[Christmaswarlock]

Good afternoon to everybody. It has been a weird weather day for us, rain all night and snow this morning with winds. We are currently under a extreme winter watch for 12" of snow possible. Hope everyone has a great rest of there Tuesday.

 

[Yuletide Junkie]

Kind of a weird day at the office. The phone system is down and that somehow disabled all the printers (don't ask me how, it's a mystery to me). So I've been proofreading everything on-screen, marking up in Acrobat Reader or Preview. It's s-l-o-w going. I hope they can get someone to fix the problems soon.

Office gear empathy...

 

[Yuletide Junkie]

The tree trimming game plan is humming along, nicely. Ten ornaments hung, each evening (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday), this week. Twenty actually became one with the branches, last night. However, since they're placed for light reflection and space filling, you would be hard pressed to see them from across the room.

 

[sugar142286]

Bummer, tonight’s the last night of my 5 day break from work! It always seems, that when you get to the end of the little reprieve you get, you realize it and say to yourself, “what, I gotta go back to work already? Where did the time go?”

I’m telling you, I really feel like calling out tomorrow because I am dreading tomorrow’s Monday morning office meeting in the conference room. The bosses were all away last Tuesday, and two of the employees in the office, got into a really nasty verbal argument to the point that it was becoming dangerously close to them getting into trading blows with each other. It then also simmered all the way into Wednesday. I got sick of it and left the office early. Both of them tried separately for me to take their sides and I just want to keep out of it.

However, if I am asked by the owners, I will say the truth because one was clearly the instigator and was 100% rude, obnoxious, nasty and vulgar to the other one. It’s sad, to have that in the office, it just completely destroys the moral and productivity for the rest of the day. Yup, really dreading tomorrow when they are both sitting at the same table.

I 100% agree! We’re really short staffed at work right now and this causes so many issues between the staff members as well. I hope it gets dealt with soon.

 

[sugar142286]

Well, we spent the day in the ER with Doc. Her UTI is pretty bad and they debated keeping her due to dehydration. After two IV's with antibiotics and medicine to take care of the upset stomach, they decided to send us home. She got in about 6 good hours of sleep at the hospital. She lost 12 pounds since all of this started on Wednesday, but really all of that weight loss is since Friday when she started getting sick. I really feel like she is on the mend, now.

Back to the real world tomorrow. Yall have a great day!

God Bless her - hopefully she is coming around and feeling better! Continued prayers for Doc!

 

[sugar142286]

Good morning MMC!
We’re converting from oil to gas heat so I’m going to be stuck in the house the next couple of days while the workers are here. I’m going to do some more decorating today since I can’t go out. I’m going to attempt to put up a tree, fingers crossed this puppy behaves! Other than that I will be working on the laundry and I may do some Cyber Monday shopping. I’m also going to make a big pot of chicken soup for dinner. I hope everyone is well and has a great day!
xx

Hope you were able to get the tree up!

 

[sugar142286]

Sadly, they decos won't be lit up when most people arrive because I'll be late getting in today. Both cars are in the shop (one due to an accident, the other because of a recall plus a check-engine light), and we're juggling one rental car between us, plus Mr. has to make it to a doctor's appointment this morning. Things are doggone complex right now. I hope they'll settle down quickly.

Thinking of you - hope things get better soon!

 

[sugar142286]

Our the Old Fashioned Downtown Christmas Walk is coming up this Friday; if the weather cooperates; I'll be there.

It will be the 30th anniversary of this merry event; I'm so pleased that our city has never gotten hit by Humbug of referring to it as "Christmas", 'cause once you light up the downtown tree; you can't call it a "holiday tree" otherwise, they'd leave it up all year and decorate it for other holiday events.

The Town Crier announces the arrival of "the Christmas Season"; lots of people dress up in "Dickens-like" clothes if they have them. They have two horses providing wagon rides from the tree to the end of the street (totally blocked off so people can stroll safely - must watch for horse dropping though - haha - and pick up another set of passengers to bring back in the other direction.
Santa and Mrs. Claus seated by the tree to chat with the children, carolers on every corner, shops with good deals, baked goodies, cider and hot chocolate, roasted chestnuts - icky, Beaver Tails (no not of the animal variety) are offered in most places, 22 Wing & the Salvation Army Bands playing, running into people you haven't seen in a decade; it's usually rather merry.



Might go with a co-worker and her daughter; could be a bit lonely without my mom, but I'm sure I'll feel her close as I explore a few spots that she and I enjoyed together over the years.

Hope you'll be able to enjoy!

 

[Meceka]

Me too! So much to do and not a lot of time

Merry Tuesday, nmc!
I hope you are able to find some time for merriment!

 

[Meceka]

Good morning ~
Merry Tuesday!
It’s going to be cloudy today with a high of 46, we’re currently at 41 degrees. Thankfully it isn’t too cold out, we don’t have heat in the house right now since we’re in the middle of converting from oil to gas. The workers are coming back today to finish, everything should be up and running by this evening. Hopefully we’ll save some money after converting! So I’ll be stuck in the house again all day. We finally got a Christmas tree up yesterday, so far so good with Rocky. We’ll see what this puppy does when we pull the lights and ornaments out today. Fingers crossed he behaves!
I hope everyone is well and has a nice day!
xx

Merry Tuesday, HmG!
I hope your heat is up and running!
So glad you were able to get the tree up yesterday!!
xx

 

[Meceka]

Well, as your signature suggests ... There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas ~ Charles Dickens ... I'm counting on some merry magic!

Merry Tuesday, Auntie!
I'm counting and believing on merry magic for you, too!
Please give O'Malley a hug from me and Palmer!
xx

 

[Meceka]

Wow...that is a lot of snow. Happy to hear you have electricity!

Merry Tuesday, SfM!
Funny thing is it seems like much more snow today and it is packed down a bit now, too. Very hard to walk through ~ feeling muscles I don't usually feel today. All good, though!
Keeping the prayers and positive thoughts flowing!
xx

 

[Meceka]

Good morning MMC!! I'm at the old job this morning again! I'll be heading to the new job probably later this morning & for the afternoon.
Don't tell, but I played hooky yesterday afternoon from the new job. My computer there isn't working after an update so they told me I could stay at my old job....the old job thought I was at the new job, so I stayed home & ..... PUT UP MY TREE!!!

It was so nice!! But shhhhhh, don't tell!!! I needed that!! Between cleaning out mom/dads house & finding a place at our house for all of the things we are bringing home & all of our funeral gifts - & trying to get caught up at work & trying to get caught up at home, I was stressing about when I was going to have time to put it up! It took me over 6 hours to put up & it is just up with lights, no decorations....but it's up! YAY!!! And I don't have any other decorations up yet either, but I'll get there - eventually!!!

Last night our friend/neighbor brought over a beautiful Christmas pine/cedar centerpiece with a Swarovski crystal snowflake hanging from it & a note that said "snowflakes are kisses from heaven" - and it was snowing outside. Darn she got me going again! Her & I both share a love of Christmas & snow! It was perfect! ♥

Everyone, have a GREAT day!!!!

Merry Tuesday, Holiday!
Great to see you! I'm glad you got your tree put up!
The centerpiece sounds beautiful. Pictures, please!
{{{{{HUGS}}}}}