Almost Xmas!

It's almost there - my hubby is off & he thought tonite was Xmas Eve!  But I have one more day to wrap presents (after finding them) and getting last minute cards & tiny gifts out.

Hubby unveiled a luvly new Oriental-style rug for the living room - like the other small ones he had found.  I am still in mourning for my old Persian rug & these are very nice, albeit new.  I AM coloring in some of the cream parts of the rug with permanent blue marker -  to give it that bit of punch!  Makes it look more like my old Persian one...dark red/black/cream with some blue is a tradtional color mix.

Also picked up some long needled pine on our walk around a Valley neighborhood near my therapist - the imprint on the sidewalk says 1925 and it is a lovely area, all leafy with mature trees and full of flowers even now in December.  The pine went into one of my pine arrangements to fill it out!

I recycle my cards year after year - and put the ones I don't send in my Xmas box.  Some edges sometimes get creased - or they don't fit the nice envelopes - so I took out the paper cutter and cut off just enough on each side so one card would fit into the nice lined envelope (you really can't tell the card was trimmed) and I trimmed an edge of another card.  Took out my red felt calligraphic pen to address the cards & write my greetings inside.  Makes my handwriting look great!

Also put together a gift bag for my elderly neighbor lady - she is living on a VERY limited income - and has had a hard life - so I try to give her holiday touches - as I said here before, I made a pine bough arrangement for her - and put an Xmas decoration on her door (which is right across from mine).  For the gift bag (recycled from a gift to US - those gift bags seem immortal) I put in all sorts of samples that I have been given - packets of Tide, shampoo, conditioner, fancy soap, lotion, some vitamin packets, a sample of a heat pack for her joints and so on...Almost ALL of it came from my freebie hunting!

Have to wrap hubby's presents - we are being so good this year and putting every package we receive under our tiny tree! Using the gift wrap the zany Makers Mark people gave us - and such NICE ribbon, too! (altho if you look very closely the snowflakes are made out of whiskey bottles! and the ribbon has their name on it - all which is hysterial because my husband has been sober for almost 20 years!)

We are playing Xmas music out of our collection of CDs and tapes. I had no idea that we had that MANY.  In Christmases past the 99 Cent Store had lots of Xmas CDs, and I bought the whole series for us and gave away CDs as Xmas presents.  (My brother got a Jazz Xmas CD at Thanksgiving which I had found and put in the Xmas box.)

Going to dig up my Xmas sheet music and try to play some on my concertina! And we are planning to go to the "midnite" service at our church which is actually at 7:30 - a curious hour. No special music as in years past - but I can sing Xmas carols with the best of them, and what with the diva in residence ailing, I do know that they need my musical input....

Was telling my therapist that this is the best Xmas I have had in years.  Maybe it's the change in my drugs (I AM bipolar, but not the axe murderer kind)...but whatever it is - I am really enjoying it.

I wish the same for you ALL!

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