Tis the season...a little early but what the hey

I know its not even Thanksgiving yet, but I couldn't resist decorating for Christmas!  Mark made me promise to wait until after Thanksgiving, but guess who worked all weekend...and I got bored. Hence me starting to blog.  Annnnnnd, therefore decorating for Christmas.   There is something about decorating for any holiday that makes me happy, especially decorating for CHRISTmas.  While listening to 'sounds of the seasons' on channel 833 and singing along while sipping my egg-nog coffee (a homemade treat), I decorated the fireplace mantle in the front room and was moving on to family room when all was going grand until I found this... which I thought we permanently fixed last year. UGH!

Look, ma, no hands!

Thank you Chewy!

     
A very sad story for Joseph....


After our first year of marriage, we headed home to Oregon to spend Christmas with my family. While we were gone we left Chewy (our 1 year old cat) home alone.  Don't begin to scold me...Mark's very gracious and wonderful parents agreed to come over and feed and litter box Chewy while we were gone.   Well, during our little vaca, Chewy got into some trouble, jumped on the fireplace and knocked Joseph onto the tile hearth and broke off BOTH Joseph's arms and broke a tile on the fireplace.  Mark was less than pleased he was pissed about the fireplace, and I was sad for poor Joseph.  Not only did he lose both arms, but his right hand's fingers were broken into a permanent 'shocker.' (If you are unfamiliar with the shocker don't look it up, but if you know what it is, you can have a good chuckle). Anyways....so that's Joseph's sad story.

Anyone know what's missing?

Ta-Da!  An almost new Joseph! 

Well, once again, I fixed Joseph and he is almost as good as new.  Let's hope this time the super glue lasts.  Done for now, I am hoping tomorrow Mark will agree to get our FAKE tree out of the garage so we can start decorating that.  


Yes, Oregon folk, we do have a fake tree.  I too agree that it is VERY SAD and LAME.  But isn't it more lame to pick a tree from a parking lot and pay a crap ton of money for it? Last year we invested in a very real looking fake tree.  As long as I am in Idaho, it will have to do. You Oregonians do not realize how lucky you are! So happy tree shopping! :)