Monday Mishmash

Monday snuck up on me again like the school bully with a snowball…all of a sudden, its in my face, and I’m left wondering “where the hell did it come from?”

Anywho. As I’m fighting a 3-day headache, I’m giving up on my attempts at a coherent post and just giving you a mishmash of stuff that’s going on here and in my head:

I’m loving www.bluntcard.com.  You’ve got to love any card that contains the phrase “Holy shit balls!”

We FINALLY went out and bought a Christmas tree. This year’s is a little Charlie Brown-ish (we didn’t bother tying it to the top of my car, we just shoved it in through the hatchback and listened to the car beep at us “there’s a door open” for the entire ride home), but he decorated up just fine. I will say this is the least amount of decorations I’ve ever put up, be it on a tree OR in the house.

It was hilarious to watch Macy check out the tree. She’d sniff at it, then look at me as if to say “Dude – there is a TREE. In my HOUSE. Whoa.”  It remains to be seen how long it is before she pulls of a wooden apple ornament and chews on it.

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With the appearance of the Christmas tree also came Alfie, our shelf elf. Normally, he is out by Thanksgiving. I think one year he stayed out all year long. (Talk about pressure!) I couldn’t be bothered this year to dig him out….but now that he is here, the kids were excited to see him. Hopefully he can work his magic. I’m all yelled out.

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I am officially (almost) done with Christmas shopping. All that is left are my teacher gifts (hello, my kids make ME need a drink, surely the teachers do, too – I’m given them wine) and the wrapping.

However, I hate wrapping presents. Mostly because they end up looking like (a) I have no thumbs or (b) I’m all thumbs. Hopefully this year’s paper isn’t as shiny (as in “no amount of cellophane tape will stick to my shiny-ness”) as last year’s paper and the presents WON’T be unwrapping themselves under the tree.

I will also say that I am OCD enough to wrap each family member’s gift in a different colored paper. That way, if a label falls off, we know who it is. (Hello, last year’s shiny paper? It proved to be a great idea, after all.)  Oh – but a little tip? You need ONE additional type of paper to wrap gifts from Mommy & Daddy and each other, because YOU can’t use the paper Santa does.

My kids don’t miss anything.

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So much for the puppy not getting on the furniture.

She’s got the right idea, though.   I’m still feeling rough, so I’m off to make another cup of coffee. In the meantime, I’ll leave you with one more from Bluntcard.com: