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How's everyone doing this fine first day of December? I spent the day getting much of my holiday shopping finished up and sending out a big box to Texas. Now I have just a little local gift exchange shopping to do, but that is no hurry... It sucks having to get it done earlier in the month for out-of-state, but it is nice to have it almost done.

Now, the chore I say every year that I'll just skip, but never do... Christmas cards (and one Hanukkah card). Thru the years, I've pared it down from well over a hundred cards to 25 mailed out and 10 local cards... Still complain to myself about addressing the 25, LOL...

I never put a tree up since it is just me, so I just toss a few decorations out. I feel for those of you that put the honking tree and lights up (tho it is glorious when done).
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Tammy and Pookey
(Stanley 8/91 - 8/07)

Ho-HoHo bah humbug. Presents are all bought, not wrapped. Started in July. Tree is up, but completely bare. Lights are not on the house, hopefully tomorrow,as I opened a brand-new box and found half of the string of lights are dead. Back to K-mart. It will all get done,with the grace of God.

I might put the tree up tomorrow; not sure yet. I already ordered something for the cats from Drs. Foster and Smith catalog. (Although if Quentin keeps picking on Star, and being a brat, he might end up with nothing.)I still have my husband's present to buy, already know what I'm going to get him. I should have my cards sent out by the end of next week or soon after.
I don't have much to buy, so Christmas has never been real stressful for me.

Ellen

The big tree is up, lights on, but only 6-10 ornaments. Someone small keeps taking them off! She also has a tree in her room, lights only.

Punky got the shock yesterday- She went running up the tree after her nap and the tree hissed at her! She jumped back 3 feet. After several moments, she spotted Stinky trying to sleep in the tree, laughed and walked off.

I only have one gift left to buy, I think. Everyday it seems Big Scary Man "remembers" someone else we need to acknowledge - plus birthday gifts, and college graduation..... If I get Punky's Christmas photos taken before Valentine's Day, I'll consider myself caught up! (but we went to a mega artsfest yesterday and shopped, shopped, shopped. I had a blast!)

(but we went to a mega artsfest yesterday and shopped, shopped, shopped. I had a blast!)

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I love the holiday craft fests they have around here. I haven't been to one in a couple years... Now that you reminded me, I'll have to get to one in the next couple weekends!
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Tammy and Pookey
(Stanley 8/91 - 8/07)

I dunno. Im getting a bit ambivalent about the whole thing...It's just me and the cats these days..but I like a tree, it's just so much work. I like the putting up part but not taking it down..sighhhh , but then I think, if we won't do it for ourselves why do it for someone else, and if we stop doing things pretty soon a lot of customs will disappear...remember those "good" dishes your mom kept stored away, the ones you only saw once or twice a year..to me it's kind of like that...take them out and use them..if we aren't good enough for them , who is? Am I making sense here, or am I just rambling...
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PHTessie

Am I making sense here, or am I just rambling...

You are so-o-o making sense to me.....

remember those "good" dishes your mom kept stored away, the ones you only saw once or twice a year..to me it's kind of like that...take them out and use them..if we aren't good enough for them , who is? Am I making sense here, or am I just rambling...

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Yes. Just like the heirloom or "special" jewelry we keep locked up in a safety deposit box that we only wear on special occasions and never take out or see again... Just sits in a cold box waiting on the next generation to store it. I had a pair of my Grandma's jade earrings like that. Mom had them for years and gave them to me. I finally decided I would wear them more than special. Took them to a jewler to have them put from a post to a lever back/hoop style so I would wear them more (they are long jade "sticks" about an inch long that look good as a dangle. It was at the jewler's I found out that Grandma's cherished 70 or 80 year old jade earrings are... glass. LOL. I don't have the heart to tell Mom or whomever I pass them on to (a niece). They'll go down in history as jade (only I and the jeweler know).
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Tammy and Pookey
(Stanley 8/91 - 8/07)

Makes sense to me too, Tessie. I use and wear my best stuff whenever I want to. My best jewelery does live in a safe in my house but I can get it out fairly easily and I use it. Why save it for some unknown person to wear later. It is mine and was purchased for me. And I love it.
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Tessa Onyx, Foudini, Charlee, Spottie, ShyRaven, Buddy, Tuxie, Widdle Attila Sipowitz, Lizzie, Minnie, ET, Mylo,(We be house cats at last), and Salem, Wicca and Marmalade (We iz also house cats, we guess)and the 5 porch kits also Riley da goggie and Buddha da baby hamster too
Tabitha and Samantha..always in our hearts//Fly free Penny 12/12/07
A house without cats is like a garden without flowers