Christmas This & That

Well, are you all ready for Christmas?  I truthfully haven’t even started. Mostly because the main people I’m buying for are my nieces and I’m getting them gift cards.  I have a few people I have to get real presents for and I’ll do that this weekend I’m hoping.  I did get a few more decorations in place around the house so that’s good.

I still need to clear off my kitchen table and get the tubs out of kitchen and back into the attic. 

Here are some pics of my fireplace and mantle. It’s a mishmash of my Grinch collection and vintage Christmas.  A Grinchmas!!

Last Friday, my plans to go to downtown Mckinney got cancelled because my friend had a funeral she had to attend to. So we’re rescheduling for another time. I called up another friend and we went thrifting for a few hours and had a great time despite it raining all single day.

I bought a few cute shirts and some bags of ornaments and Christmas cards.  In my ornament bag, I was only interested in the small vintage santa and Mrs Claus that have been bejeweled. Someone wrote on bottom of one 1976. The bag cost 3.99$ and I was so excited!

A few nights ago, a few coworkers and I drove to downtown Dallas to have dinner and go to the Deep Ellum Art bar to show some support for our coworker Ray. It was open mic night and we wanted to see him perform and play his guitar. We had so much fun!!  Basically on open mic night, anything goes- rap, ballads, country, you name it!  Some good , some not so good but God love them it took guts to get up there !!  I realized after getting home a little before 11 pm and not in bed until later , I am old and staying out late on a “school night” is hard. HAHA! I was dragging all day yesterday and I couldn’t wait to get home and sit on couch.

We had our department Christmas party today at work and we did the white elephant game.  That was so funny because people bring some of the strangest gifts. One person ended up with a small package of double A batteries , another person ended up with a case of Bush bean cans , and there was a set of desk top trash cans for pens.  There were decent gifts too such as what I got and that was Starbucks gift card.  One gift was so creative- it was a box of 12 different soap bottles with a typed up note that was for Clark Griswold and his soap of the month subscription.  So cute!  We had lunch catered with turkey and dressing and twice baked potatoes and green beans with peach cobbler. So yummy!!!

I am working a half day tomorrow and then i'm on off until Monday. Yay for long weekends! 

How's everyone doing? The holidays can be hard for so many. I am on verge of tears quite honestly because i'm missing Dad. Tradition is tradition and I've spent every Christmas day with my Dad since I was a kid. This will be my 2nd Christmas without him and almost 3 years he'll be gone ( January). 

Just know that i'm thinking of you and you're not alone.  xoxo