Yuletides Finally Purged

It's not everyday that you get to gaze at this magnificent album cover...

But today it finally got done and all the Christmas stuff is gone. Boxes, bows, baskets, all of it. And Laura already has hearts all over the damn place that I'll be tearing down in approximately one month as well. Does it never stop?

But I do not feel so bad since as we drove home tonight we saw that Main Street is still lit to the hilt.

This Mess, That Sickness

We're un-Christmasing today. It's kind of a bummer, but it's nice to get this mess un-messed. I think we've let it go because, well, why vacuum and such if you're just gonna drag a dead tree thru your living room dropping needles everywhere and have to do it again. We're frugal like that. 

Illness is receding as well. Laura's skin has returned to its normal shade of ghostly flesh and she hasn't felt like death for a good few hours now. But she hacks as I speak. I wish she's stop. It's hurting my ears. For now, the weekend is coming, which means nothing really. I heard some talk of small hotdogs wrapped in flaky dough during football games that none of us care who wins. Gonna be craaaa-zeeee.

UnHolly UnJolly

It's a depressing day for me when we have to take down all the Christmas decor. Laura loves it. She's a purger. I'm a binger. But I shed a tear every time I drag the tree that once brought us so much joy out to the woods to be piled up with those who came before him. It's an ugly sight.

But it was that kind of day. Ridding ourselves of all the cardboard that's been building up in the shed. Boxes that held slides and trampolines and toys and toys and toys. We could've built ourselves a new house lout of cardboard. And utilizing our new ornament organizers was quite satisfying for myself because I like to keep all the bits and pieces coordinated. Laura can make fun of me all she wants. She'll thank me next holiday season come time to decorate again. But I'm not sure how we got 5 new totes this season and still can't fit everything. Christmas is multiplying.

So at 7:51pm I threw the last swag of greens out the back door and just like that Christmas was over. Except the outdoor lights, and I may just leave them on all night tonight... so I still got tonight.