What's going on in the Girldom for 2009? Let's see...
Girly Stuff, my BBFF, ("B" for Blogging) is a soldier for home beautification...I think she dreams in projects and wakes up in the morning to realize them. She has some real life good stuff on the horizon that I'm sure she will be divulging soon. Her creative innards may implode with joy.
Did you already meet the Queen of Themed-Trees? Miss Priss has a collection of twelve amazing trees that she shared during the month of December. As a result, my tree-lust has me prowling for post-Christmas clearance sales. I want to bump up my collection for next year. And you gotta get up pretty early in the morning to get a head start on Miss Priss.
So if you find this set of trees at Target, grab it and buy it for me. You know who you are who have access to the less picked over Targets...
Thinking about my trees brings us back to Superstar, where we belong. I have a question that will require our collective genius. This is a real design dilemma, and I think I know the answer, but I am hoping someone can figure out a way for me to keep one pretty little prelit Christmas tree in my dining room year 'round.
Is there ANY scenario whereby this would be acceptable? I've already bought it and its so precious that I can't bear the thought of putting it in the attic and waiting a whole year to enjoy (or nine months since I'm on the professional schedule for Christmas 2009.) Still, that's a long time to wait.
What if I put little Valentine hearts on it come Jan 1st? And then I can put little Shamrocks on it for St. Patty's, and I have a string of Easter egg lights on deck...Yes? No? I've already retained a decorator, so I have to do what she says or she'll quit; she doesn't do it for the money. (She's asking "what money?" right now.) Help me convince her to say "yes" to a tree in the dining room.
We have one more little party to attend tonight. Our neighbor is hosting a New Year's Eve celebration and kids are invited to attend in their PJs. It will be fun, and I am looking forward to it. But then the festivities abruptly come to an end and I'll be crushed.
I like to hang on to the "holidays" by the last thread. I'm the kind of girl who feels a little sad every Sunday night as the weekend comes to a close. So, I hate when Christmas is over because I want to keep the good times rolling. I hate that people are already flying home and saying good-bye. I hate the depression that sets in January second, when it still feels like the holidays, but it's technically not the holidays anymore. (See, so I need a Prozac-tree.)
I do have some good things to look forward to. We are getting our upstairs bathrooms stripped of hideous wallpaper, textured and painted. Then we are replacing carpet and turning an extra bedroom into an upstairs game room. This requires knocking out walls and is something we've talked about since we bought the house five years ago. It will be great to contain Only Child's loot to a game room and reclaim my downstairs again.
Normally I never let visitors go upstairs because I'm so messy. My goal is to be less junky and purge the stuff that we don't need or use. I want to be 10 trash bags lighter by the end of January.
Additionally, we are adding whole foods to our menu and cutting out the boxed and processed junk. This is going to be a tough one because we love convenience foods. I still need to iron out the exact goals, but I am ready to feel less sluggish and eating better is the easiest way to fix that.
And, this is the year that I read every book! I missed it by half a book this year, which I may still read, but it won't happen by tonight. This year we are reading:
The Thirteenth Tale
The Shack
The Little Children
Merrick
A Line Between Friends
And if you want my reading selections, here are a few books that I truly enjoyed:
The Lovely Bones
The Kite Runner
Pillars of the Earth
(*Pillars is silly and long, but fun to read)
That is all! Happy New Year. Over and out for 2008!
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7 comments:
A Prozac tree? I guess if your doctor says it is necessary we must oblige!
I love a tree up year all year. Or just Christmas lights in general.
Go ahead and decorate that little tree. Use your feather picks from your garland and it will look great in there!
I just started a new job in July. There was a halloween decorating contest for each group/department to participate in. We put up the "xmas" tree and decorated it with Halloweenie stuff. Well, when the ghosts came down, the tree stayed up...and it became a turkey tree...then xmas tree...the xmas stuff came down yesterday but the tree is still up. I believe this means it will become a themed tree each month. You could totally pull this off in a home if we're doing it in an office. LOL
I think you could totally use your little tree year round... why not?
With the banana - I'm not sure how that would go over. I mean, it could be taken as kind of a phallic innuendo. So to speak.
But it would be funny. Then I'd probably get slammed by HR for sexual harassment.
Happy New Year. Thank you for the book recommendations. I am with you on trying to cut out the packaged foods - easier said than done though. Let me know any helpful hints...
Happy New Year!
So excited about your bathroom fix-up! We did that to our house in AZ and it was so very much better than wall paper.
Good job on your book reading. I always think I'll make a list of books to read, and then I never do. So glad there are bloggers like you who list them for me!
We could put the tree in Only's room and use it as a night light.
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