I, on the other hand, make no pretense. I LOVE presents!. This year was especially fun with the gifts-occasioned-by-their-visit from the girls. Note the marvelous and thoughtful gifts displayed before my also very marvelous Christmas TV.
And it's not over yet. If the weather allows, we will meet Linda for lunch on Friday for more Christmas celebration.
I used the occasion as an excuse to wear Santa on my head again. Not too many of those opportunities per year, you know.
Barbara's unexpected surgery meant that I was in Topeka playing nurse on Christmas. As you can see, Barbara came through this surgery much less visibly wounded than the last. Here she is with the presents that found her.
Since Barbara is now talking seriously about moving closer to me -- yeah and to her grandkids -- I thought I'd get her something useful for Christmas. Here she is with two of the four roles of packing tape. A pak of 10 large packing boxes are in the garage.
She got me this quite nice blue pitcher and there is a JoAnn's gift card floating in the bottom of it. Yea!!
The ham is in the oven, and I'm going to pick up Mom in a bit to have our Christmas celebration this afternoon. It just keeps on going, going, going, Now, isn't that nice?
It is a very basic style DVR player that likes my 20 year old TV. I got it online for $36 and, best of all, I got it hooked up all by myself. Yesterday I watched 'Mama Mia' and 'Chicago,' and my first NetFlix DVD's are due to arrive today. Even I finally got tired of the daytime reruns.
When everyone left after Thanksgiving, I found 2 of these pizzas in my freezer. Turns out I like them a lot! Finding another no-cook and enjoyable dinner IS a big event! Thanks to whoever.
Toby seems to be uncomfortable with me downstairs and him napping upstairs. Yesterday he discovered the downstairs sink and napped there all afternoon. It's larger, and he actually fits better there.
This is today's big event. How can a person who lives alone accumulate so much laundry?
They are so very grown up now as evidenced by their planning ahead for the next holiday. On top of that, Bud & Mary brought me a lovely poinsettia. Together, the presents and poinsettia form my Christmas 'decor' for this year.
And every night, as well as in the morning, I am enjoying my new Christmas TV. It is a wonderful thing to have both a picture large enough to see from my bed and a remote control that works. No getting out of bed to change channels, adjust volume, or turn off the TV I love it!
With time on my hands now, I got into another jigsaw puzzle. You can tell that I'm getting serious about this puzzle stuff if you note the base of my new puzzle lamp. It was purchased especially to augment light at my kitchen table to further illuminate puzzle working. Now, time to tear this one up and get another one going.
