It was pointed out to me that Christmas should be about my son this year, not me. That excellent point woke me up to being such a baby. My three year old is actually aware of the holiday this year, and is quite excited and wants to meet Santa. that is pretty cute.
I have decorated the house and we even made a construction paper wreath together. He cannot wait to get a tree and decorate it.
It should be fun. It helps that the antibiotics are kicking in and I am feeling better. whew.

I am so not into Christmas this year. My parents will not be visiting and we are not going to Canada. I am stuck here in Jersey with the husband, son and that is it. I should be happy but I am not. Why? Because Christmas in Jersey actually means Christmas in Staten Island and that makes me want to throw things. It is so depressing. This Christmas is going to suck.
blah!

Now I don't feel so guilty. Turns out I have bronchitis, which is why I have not had the energy to do anything these past two weeks. Now I am on antibiotics and should be on the road to recovery. Hopefully I have not gotten too under the wheel on the whole Christmas shopping/shipping thing.

Decided not to give up on handmade christmas gifts. Although I must say, last years Homer Simpson pillowcases were not a hit.
I have chosen to go slow and just work on ornaments for those people who you don't really want to get gifts for, but must because of social obligations. This also provides me with yet another excuse to go to the craft store, my mecca.
It is also providing me a great procrastination switch up...instead of putting of making the ornaments, I am making ornaments in order to put off dealing with the Canadian citizenship papers I have to fill out and turn in on Thursday at the Canadian Consulate in NYC. There are so many tiny details and shit I have to make sure everything is crossed and dotted. blech.

I have not finished anything in forever. I had this dream of making all my Christmas presents this year. What a load of shit. Not going to happen. Why do I do this to myself?
grrrr--argh!

Rainy Days

Drizzly rain again. Bah!
But I have managed to slink downstairs to get some work in between loads of laundry, diaper changes and folding more laundry. Now if I could just work past my afternoon nap addiction I think we could really get this party started.

I am starting a project involving postcards sent to me from friends living across the country. Not sure where I am going with this but at least I will get a lot of mail that is not a bill. Yay.
I really need to clean off my work table, it is near impossible to start anything when it is covered in half started projects. I love looking at it though. I just makes me happy to be near it.
Okay, I am going to go watch CSI now.