Everyone
has been saying how warm it is for this time of year. It's warm here
too and while it's not unusual for it to be in the low 70s on
Christmas Day, it is rare for it to be 80˚. I'm sitting here in
full summer dress mode...shorts, tank top, barefoot, hair pulled back
in a ponytail, and the doors and windows are open. The roses are all
in full bloom and the altheas are putting on new growth and it's too
hot and muggy to do any serious work out in the yard.
It's
Christmas Eve but as you probably know by now, I don't do christmas.
I quit celebrating christmas in my mid-20s when I married a jewish
man. I had already abandoned the theology years previous but
participated in a secular way. Family expectations and all. We
raised our kids Jewish. That was before I abandoned religion
altogether. There was a lot of common ground between my beliefs and
Judaism at that point in my life but in the end, it was still
religion and it too was discarded. I don't consider myself an
atheist but what I think and ponder on is about as diametrically
opposed to the father creator god in the sky, separate from
existence, as it can be.
part
of my neighbor's christmas decorations
Christmas,
for me, is a free two days off. Stores are either closed or mobbed,
no one expects any business to get done, no family obligations at
this point in my life so I usually spend it putzing around doing
whatever I feel like doing or doing nothing at all, curled up for two
days with a book. It's so warm this year that I'm in putzing mode.
In fact, I've basically been putzing around all week.
I
filled the mold for the day lily flower (I'll post on that later), unpacked all the stuff from
the two studio sales/open houses this year, I'm hanging some of the
botanicas and other art work that has been sitting around, I've been
going over to my sister's house every day for cat duty while she is
gone and her dogs are here,
I got the garden totems all back out in
the yard and rearranged the plate flowers.
And...Marc
replaced the rotten part of the sub-floor so I went down to the local
floor coverings place and picked a vinyl and they came and installed
it yesterday. Today, Marc reseated the toilet so we have our
bathroom back with brand new flooring.
So
nice to have the main bathroom back in working order.
It's so warm and muggy here and I don't feel well and I don't know if it's the weather or if I'm actually getting sick. Either way- ugh.
ReplyDeleteAnd we're about to go to my daughter's Christmas Eve party and I have a ton of food to take and the thought of all of it makes me feel a bit wretched. I have no idea what to wear- the red velvet is definitely OUT.
And the cat I thought was dead?
No. She's alive.
What a strange day.
Those freaking inflatable Christmas decorations should be outlawed. Camo Santa? Bite me.
Blow up lawn decorations are beyond tacky. A house in town puts up more than a hundred of them in their yard. I truly like the family in the house, too.
ReplyDeleteI guess the Northwest is one of the few places where it's rainier and colder than usual. Merry Christmas to you. Take care.
ReplyDeleteSnowy cold and winter for sure here. I'll trade ya.
ReplyDeleteAs to religiosity......well you know my story of having worked in a church and found it was the hardest thing to keep faith in an Almighty or his children. but that's just me.
The only label I put on people anymore is friend if they are and not so much if they aren't. You my dear heart are most certainly my friend. So happy everything to you and Marc.
BTW, we have the same flooring in our main bath. So I guess we are flooring twins. tee hee
xoxo Oma Linda
Same flooring as in my farm bathroom it looks.It snowed hard yesterday, total white out.Plans to melt in a few daze.
ReplyDeleteAt least you're able to get a lot done while you're not celebrating! I kind of wish I didn't celebrate Christmas either, but with my family ties it's pretty much an obligation.
ReplyDeleteI love that photo of the dogs with the line of old trucks in the background!
While I am not complaining about ice or snow. It does have me worried about how warm everything is. I am sure my sugar maple will probably get sick this year. I am sure the insects will be twice as bad this summer. I just want SOME cold weather.
ReplyDeleteWell, don't get too settled in those shorts and sandals. From what I hear, Weather is coming. In fact, it may even turn into truly cold weather (i.e., coastal plain cold -- in the 40s).
ReplyDeleteI love Christmas and do celebrate, but my favorite week of the entire year is the week between Christmas and New Year's, for just the reasons you cite. Everything slows a bit, most people are either in the stores or off somewhere doing something, and it's the perfect time to begin slouching toward the new year. Well, and to do some housecleaning. My Swedish grandmother instilled the need to have a perfectly clean house before the New Year. I have a ways to go.