On My 8th Day of Pre-Christmas

Okay, so we now have My 1st Day of Pre-Christmas, My 2nd Day of Pre-Christmas, , My 3rd Day of Pre-Christmas, , My 4th Day of Pre-Christmas, My 5th Day of Pre-Christmas, My 6th Day of Pre-Christmas, and My 7th Day of Pre-Christmas.

On My 8th Day of Pre-Christmas, my brand new king size bed gave to me,
8 hours of pole-vaulting kitties
...7 hoards of humbugs
......6 pesky telemarketing calls
.........5 HOURS OF TREE DECORATING
............a 4 dollar Charlie Brown tree
...............3 truckloads of food
..................2 pooped people with tired bodies
.....................and a brand new king size bed.

Eight hours of polevaulting kitties! What's up with that? It's so easy (like taking candy from a baby! - another musical brain worm for those of you who remember).

Last night was the sleep from hell for My Sweetie. Now, apparently, as I am told, I snored through the entire thing. But I do remember waking up the odd time to sound of the growling bear, which was My Sweetie snarling at either me or the cats or both. Why? Because CoCo was trying to get on top of the bed so that she could have some quality time with her Mommy and Daddy.

The new bed is a few inches higher than what we had before. This makes it a little more difficult for the kitties to get up. Since BJ has a bit of arthritis in his hind legs, we placed a little stool at the bottom of the bed for their highnesses, and BJ uses it, but CoCo? No way Jose!! She prefers to run toward the bed then leap to try to get on top. Of course, there is always the lovely sound of kitty claws on fabric. EEEEk!

I am not sure what is going to be on tap for tonight. Probably more leaping through the air kitties, but that's just what they do. They are animals, and My Other Sweeties.

Right now I have to go downstairs and wrap a giftie for someone that I don't know. I think it's for hubby's secret Santa thingy.

I am officially on vacation as of tonight.....YAY! Tomorrow morning I am going to be doing some local volunteer work for Christmas. But I'll be back later on in the day.

Ciao amigos and amigas.....
Merry Christmas!

On My 3rd Day of Pre-Christmas

Okay, so far we had My first and My second My 1st Day of Pre-Christmas! and My 2nd Day of Pre-Christmas!

On My 3rd Day of Pre-Christmas, my now-gone-home-dinner-guests gave to me,
3 truckloads of food.
...2 pooped people with tired bodies
......and a brand new king size bed.

So, just exactly how much food do we have left over from our little gathering last night? Well, we could package this grub together and ship it off to feed the needy in Africa! Now, to be fair, we actually came out alright, last night, with a balance of everything that was needed. No one starved, and no one was wanting for anything. We had plenty.
We also had plenty of veggies left over, and I do believe that one CAN have too many stirfry dinners. I am a huge veggie lover, but if I consumed all of the veggies that we currently have in the fridge, I would either be growing a cute little bunny tail and floppy ears, or I would be sitting in the loo for an inordinate amount of time (note to self: TOO MUCH INFORMATION!).


The problem came when people were leaving. Nobody wanted to take anything home with them, including the dishes that the food came on.. They kept saying you keep it and eat it, Dear or you can donate that cheap little plate to Goodwill. I think because we are both relatively slight of build, that we probably looked as though we could use a little extra meat on our bones. (Note to self: Self, I says, you have to keep exercising and not stuffing so many of those delicious little homemade shortbreads in your wee mouth, or those little dark chocolate After Eight chocolate mints).
Now, I DID do a Cycling class tonight, which probably burned off at least one of the darling little shortbread cookies :-(....and if I can manage to roll off of this chair, I will prepare to spend a hopefully glorious night of sleep in the new bed (which arrived this morning, and which the cats have been exploring and scouting out spots).

So tonight there are no more sleeps until the king size bed arrives. It is done. It is here. All hail the arrival of the new big beddy!

And, as usual, with that in mind, I bid you all a good night.

Merry Pre-Christmas!

On My 2nd Day of Pre-Christmas

Okay, so yesterday was My 1st Day of Pre-Christmas...wheeeee!

On My Second Day of Pre-Christmas, my pot luck dinner gave to me,
2 pooped people with tired bodies.
.....and a brand new king size bed.

Author's Apologies: Sorry that this is so late. We just finished cleaning up, and now have some spare time.
.....and thank you to everybody who stopped by for yesterday's post! Coolio!

Our little hovel hosted a pot luck for 13 close friends. To the rest of the world, this may not seem like such a big deal, right? Except that we both worked a full day (and fuller week) and then had to prepare and set up etc. Thank goodness we didn't have to clean the house as well (thanks to the extra help that I receive every two weeks). Add to this that I had been on the phone from basically 8 o'clock this morning until 3 o'clock this afternoon, and I had not even showered at that point. When I finally did get to shower, it was time to jump into the get ready for the guests mode, and pretty lickety split too I tell you.

This was our first really big gig in this house, and we were a little hesitant at first, but once we actually got down to it, things weren't so bad. The evening turned out to be a success. We had ample amounts of vegetables (and homemade shortbread, the way that my Mom used to make), and nobody went hungry.

So tonight is one more sleep until the king size bed arrives tomorrow. And with that in mind, I bid you all a good night.

Merry Christmas!

On My 1st Day of Pre-Christmas

A few days ago I provided a little teaser post about The 12 Days of pre-Christmas

Pre-Christmas can mean different things to different people. Now, with my blog, everything that I write about is true. These things actually happen (or happened as in the past).

So, with that in mind, I will endeavour to create My 12 Days of Pre-Christmas, one day at a time.

Please feel free to join in whatever way you feel that you can. And above all....have fun with it! That is key!

On My first day of pre-Christmas, my mattress store gave to me,
A brand new king size bed.

Yes, a marvelous new bed, king size, with camel duvet cover, pillow shams and bed skirt, sage colored sheet sets, and thermopedic pillow. The cats know that the new beast arrives on Friday, and they are trying to squeeze out every last living cuddle on the old mattress. Gosh knows how we'll all manage with all of the room that will become available, but My Sweetie and I can hardly wait. We've been counting the number of sleeps that are left until the new bed arrives.

Now, there is more to this story, of course.

One might wonder what happens to the old bed. Well, it's going to charity, and while we have brought things to charities before, this time it's a little different. This time the charity has a face. We know someone who has a need for a bed and a mattress, and even the sheets, no matter how old. When I was first approached about this, I was a little uncomfortable about it, but then it just made sense, and there was no question about it. This is what we would do. This person said that they shop at the charity stores, and while the mattress store would have picked up the mattress and donated it to a charity, the needy people who come for those mattresses actually have to pay something for them.

So we both come out happy. My heart is warm knowing that the bed will be put to good use, and by someone that we know, and we've also made someone else happy.

Merry Christmas!