What a great idea... now move yer arse!

Seems I'm back to weekly posting. Oops. I'd love to blame it on being too busy, I am pretty busy. But really, I come up with great things to post about... and then sit down in from on my laptop and promptly forget. Or decide they sound lame. Which is worse: lame or nothing? Lame could still be entertaining. Guess I should post anyway. Because afterall, you are what you post. And some days, I'm pretty lame (just ask my teens!)

I have been busy crocheting. Lots of hats and headbands for Skye, testing out patterns and designs. I'm working on a baby blanket for a coworker's daughter, she's due anyday.



I've also been gathering supplies for Christmas decorating. I'm going way out of the box this year - we're doing a sort of Nightmare Before Christmas/Addams Family/Gothic Christmas theme. Lots of dark purple, black and silver. I think it'll be different and fun. Jason doesn't like the idea AT ALL. He thinks it won't feel like Christmas. Oh, it'll be Christmasy, no worries!

The Christmas tree is already up, it's a fakey. As a kid, I swore I'd never have an artificial tree, I hated them. They were REAL. And then a few years ago, there was a crazy post-Turkey Day sale on fake trees. We were able to get a $200 tree for $50! That's what we were spending on a real tree. This is a 7+ footer and we can't have too big a star on top or it won't fit! I love having a tree that goes all the way to the ceiling! It's a beautiful, full tree. And the best parts: I don't have to remember to water it (I barely remember to water the children!) I don't have to vacuum up pine needles. And the best: I sleep peacefully at night with the tree fully ablaze and not a worry about the thing catching fire! Oh, and no wondering about how to dispose of the thing come February January! Not to mention that we can put up the tree whenever we want, on the spur of the moment, on a whim. Like hey, kids, go get the tree. If we wanted to do a Fourth of July tree, we totally could... you know, that just might be a fun thing to do next summer!! I bet I could pick up some blue lights on bargain after Christmas. Putting red stars and white garland - maybe I could find a statue of liberty to put on top!

LOL - I'm laughing at my own "creativity". Did I mention that my NAKED tree is up? And has been for almost a week now. Yeah, I'm great with the ideas. Terrible with the follow through. The makings for the ornaments for our Halloweentown Christmas Tree on in bags by my bed and the trunk of the car, along with the rest of the decorations and two wreaths I need to put together. Oh and I'm doing things like putting Santa hats on our plastic jack-o-lanterns and small wreaths around a few gargoyle statues we have. Things like that. I have all the supplies. I just need to get moving on them. Guess I should start now!!