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12.13.2006 :: Grab a cup of tea and relax with me for a couple of minutes
Thanks to Bob that I have done most of my Christmas shopping online because even without fighting the crowds, I still feel stress creeping in. I try to keep the stress of Christmas out of my life. It is not welcome here. But it finds a crack in the foundation and seeps in somehow.
I hum Christmas carols before the Thanksgiving turkey has even left the table. I enjoy decorating the house with a tradition of ornaments gathered through our life together. I eagerly look forward to the beautiful lights outside lighting the night. I love the Christmas season very deeply. And yet it happens every year. Stress.
Online shopping has indeed helped. I will keep fighting that stress with a nightly cup of tea or hot chocolate near my Christmas tree. My annual reading of A Christmas Carol is on hold because I cannot find the book. Let me repeat that. I CANNOT FIND THE BOOK. That ticks me off. It's here. It does not have legs. I miss it but you know, look at THIS wonderful version of the book. Hmm. Now, that is a beautiful book!
And look at this? (watch the little video)
http://www.chia.com/catgrass.html
Does Fig have a commercial career while I'm at work?
This is my over the shoulder, I'm wicked hungry and cute pose. The humans love this one!
And a bit of Christmas Knitting to go with the tree gazing.
Mim's wonderful Simple Trekking Sock pattern.
I got out of work early today to wait for UPS to bring Andy's Christmas present. Raise your right needle and swear not to tell?
Click here:
Andy's Present, I swear I won't call him and tell him, like the grinch I can be.
IMPORTANT STUFF, Still reading??
The wonderful Carole is editing the January Edition of Yarnival. Go ahead and submit some blog writing. Go ahead! You know you want to! Submit, submit, submit.
What are you still here for, aren't you going to submit? Get to it!
Go.
Posted by Sandy on 12.13.2006 AT 03:39 PM
Comments
Fine. Go ahead and post without telling me. See if I care. I'm with Cookie. I'm going to submit (you can come along for the ride, too) about how I hate people and how people are idiots. I am. I'm warning you.
Posted by: Norma on 12.14.2006 AT 10:31 PM
Hey! Promise you won't tell, but I am making those socks at this very moment for Erin. Well, actually at this very moment I am giving my claws a break, but you know.....
I want that present, I should have offered to UPS sit for you, then mysteriously taken off for yonder parts with the goods.
Posted by: Teresa C on 12.14.2006 AT 08:38 PM
What colorway is that sock? I really like it, very Christmassy!
Posted by: Tracey on 12.14.2006 AT 06:46 PM
You want us to submit, eh?
Posted by: Laurie on 12.14.2006 AT 03:24 PM
Funny, I was already drinking tea! (Lemon-ginger herbal tea; nice.)
Is that #107, the reddish-green one? That would be delightfully appropriate. :-)
Posted by: Beth S. on 12.14.2006 AT 12:39 PM
Today is the first day that I woke up and felt holiday stress. Your timing is great!
Posted by: Stephanie on 12.14.2006 AT 08:21 AM
I love, love, love the Christmas sock. And Fig is as charming as always ... I so wish we could have a cat.
I'm so far behind on Christmas stuff it isn't even funny. Kicking it into high gear today.
Posted by: Ruth on 12.14.2006 AT 08:06 AM
It sounds to me like you are doing the holiday season just right.
Posted by: claudia on 12.13.2006 AT 09:30 PM
Losing a loved book? That's like a nightmare right out of Dickens or something . . . hey . . . wait a minute!
Posted by: --Deb on 12.13.2006 AT 09:10 PM
Holiday stress always seems to get me too. Tea drinking sounds like a great idea! That is an adorable picture of fig. Love the trekking sock!
Posted by: Kelly on 12.13.2006 AT 07:10 PM
I bet Fig knows where that book went.
What would I submit, Sandy? How I hate people? Or how I don't want to knit that cardi? Or how I keep making Fetching over and over and over again? :p
Posted by: Cookie on 12.13.2006 AT 06:29 PM
Fig is so cute! Does he always stick his tongue out like that or did you just catch him in the moment? Love you sock...I just downloaded the pattern - thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Kate/Massachusetts on 12.13.2006 AT 06:14 PM
Do whatever it takes not to get too stressed or you'll end up like me! I've done all my shopping on-line in just 2 weeks. Drs. orders - NO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. So, have credit card/computer, will shop. It's so much easier!
Take care of you! The rest will fall into place.
Sheri in GA
Posted by: Sheri on 12.13.2006 AT 05:45 PM
Oooh - he's gonna love your gift!
Posted by: Jackie on 12.13.2006 AT 05:37 PM
Love the Christmas sock, hon. And Andy is going to adore his present. I promise I won't tell him. Thanks for the Yarnival shout out, I appreciate it so much.
Now go de-stress or something.
Posted by: Carole on 12.13.2006 AT 05:08 PM
UPS adds a lot of stress to my Christmas!
Posted by: Theresa on 12.15.2006 AT 12:18 AM