Last year I decorated the fig tree instead of putting up a regular tree. I think I didn't take the ornaments off until August.

Our tree is still up too, mainly because I need to prod everyone to take it down.

The water is gorgeous. I feel like dyeing... but I'll have to wait for spring.

Which Republican would you prefer?

Laundry mates in the night. I'm sure of it.

Wow, I felt like I wrote that list! My tree is still up, I cried over the same little white dog that I've never met, there's too much laundry everywhere, chicken for dinner, oversleeping, missing Christmas music, etc. All but the cheezits -- not one of my favorites even though I love cheddar cheese. I chop the chicken up, use it like the ground meat to make taco sauce and put it on top of my taco salad.

You are not the last person with their Christmas tree up. Mine is still up WITH ornaments! I am dreading taking it down.

Also my future husband has the same laundry philosophy Andy. This drives me crazy!!

Oh my God, thank you! I still have three Christmas boxes to take out to the shed. I only got my tree down on Tuesday!! I hear you on the laundry and the want to knit faster thing. I'm right there with you!!!!

Do not give us a hard time about McCain! We can't help it, we've all been programmed to love the guy. I have a strange, inexplicable compulsion to vote for him.

You're not the only one with your tree still up. I keep telling myself that it's still up because I put it up late and I just want to enjoy it a little longer. In acuality, I was too lazy to put it up and now am too lazy to take it down! Such is life.

No Cheez-its have passed my lips in 2008 so far, and I'm trying to keep it that way. But they are definitely my junk food of choice!

I second the vote for currying the chicken. We eat a lot of curry at my house. My favorite one is the saffron cream sauce (in a can! My mother-in-law would cry if she knew) from Jyoti.

And I sniffled for Vincent too. I think we all did. You're in good company.

What a fine random list. I'm sad about Vincent, too.

We're all missing the little white muppet as well.

Also there with you on the Cheez-it love, although in these parts, it's an obsession.

Little white dog sadness here too *sniff*

Great random post, and I am with you on almost all of them. And you are so right. What the heck is NH thinking? It is no secret that I lean a little bit conservative and my undeclared status had me wondering up to the time I stood in line which ballot I would choose, but McCain? Ummmm. No.

Ditto on the knit faster, miss Christmas music, warm weather (for another day, then please back to winter), Pete's stuff on the floor, the tree. Everyone here does their own laundry and there are strict rules, so I shouldn't see a pile (as I lean over and see a mountain on the laundry room floor-that is when you know Meg is home). But I never crave taco salad. Ewww. :)

Sniff. Everybody is so frickin sweet. It makes it damn hard to hate. Frack.

Sick admission No. 1,234: I have the same sickness as Andy about the clean/dirty/not quite dirty clothes thing. I know. You didn't know that about me, did you? :@)

I barely know Norma and never met the lil white dog but my heart hurts for them all the same...

...as for your chicken, try this: http://www.jamiesdinners.com/menu/?m=3&ret=challenge

It is by far the bestest chicken dinner I've ever made - and I've made a LOT of chicken dinners. ;o)

As soon as I read about the little white dog, I knew what happened. Now I am crying too. I haven't taken down my tree either. It's not totally dry yet! Tomorrow for sure.

There is nothing wrong with loving a doggie you have never met. Seems normal, in fact.

Curry the chicken? Or is it too late to vote on the chicken?

What does Fig think about the tree still being up? When will it become a fire hazard?

♥

I hear you on the white dog.