presents all wrapped | over it | the holidays

it's the anticipation that kills me...
i'm good for a week or 2, but we bought our son's big gift like a month ago. i just want to give it to him so he can enjoy it already...it's doing none of us any good in the case in our bedroom!

should have some great photos after the holiday thoguh :) plus i see photos all over town that i want to take in this weather, but it's this weather that's preventing me. the steam/fog on the river especially. it's like 5F here, windchills in the negative double digits. there's a snow and ice expectation for tomorrow :( snow i'm fine with - the ice can suck it.

i am supposed to have lunch with a friend from high school who now lives in KY tomorrow :) i'll be asking her first how she got to kentucky in the first place :)

but what i was getting at initially is that the holidays kind of baffle me. i start out excited...then i get a little nauseous from the consumerism. i don't believe in diamonds as a representation of love and i don't believe in going into debt during the holidays. the big gift we bought our son is something i could have gotten for him anytime during the last few months and i know he'd appreciate it anytime.

xmas is fun when you have like 3-8 year olds, but at the same time 3-8 years olds are impressed regardless of how much money you spend...

so anyway...2 more workdays then i'm off for 9 days, though i might take the 2nd off too. we will probably hang the rest of our drywall in that time in addition to xmas morning with our son, the afternoon at my brothers with his family, my sisters family and my mom...

we'll be sleeping in the rest of the time and staying up late hanging drywall probably :) maybe the weather will stay in the 40s with sun during the days so we can finish the ceiling in the front of the house and figure out what we're going to seal it with. we're trying to decide on a polyshades stain, polyurethane plus color. jason wants to just use polyurethane, but i want to use something a little darker for more uniformity as there is some variation in the sheathing...when we started we didn't know it was going to be the finish.

i'm sure the holidays will be fun. it's nice to accomplish great things on the house and a full week with the 3 of us at home is unheard of. and our son will LOVE his big gift :) and his small ones too, but in reality i'm excited for the big gift. i'm just tired of waiting :)

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