Pre-Christmas preparations
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wiseheartI'm not that big at Christmas decorations; our flat is so crowded that finding a surface large enough for the decoration to look well would be a real challenge. Plus, I'm not fond of the blinking lights... to put it mildly. We don't have a single light chain and won't ever have one. Fortunately, Mum agrees with me.
But I do have my own preparations to make, now that the fair stuff is mostly done (I always find something that needs to be done yet, but that's not much, thank goodness) and I'm taking a baking break. So I've selected the Christmas cards I intend to send on their way to distant countries - no self-made ones, with two exception, as I was way too busy with other projects - and started writing the list to whom they are supposed to go. At the moment there are ten names on that list, and four empty spaces that will doubtlessly be filled, soon.
No actual writing was done today, but I went through the timeline for "Charmed into Darkness" with the fine-toothed comb and wrote down a rough layout for the story. I've come to 24 chapters, which is doable, as three of them are already written, another three need serious rewriting but actually exist, and now that I've changed the concept to adapt the basic line of events from Charmed's late 3rd and early 4th season, the whole thing looks more or less coherent. I hope it will work. *fingers crossed*
Other than that I was mostly housewife-y today. I took down the dried washing, I cooked lunch, I helped Mum rearranging the living room for tomorrow's cleaning frenzy. And I talked to my Ilonka on the phone about possibly delivering this Advent calendar to her before Advent would actually start... or not too much later. Fortunately, the little boy for whom it is meant is still too young to notice any potential lateness (or to care much for the whole thing yet) at the age of 14 or so months. *g*
But I do have my own preparations to make, now that the fair stuff is mostly done (I always find something that needs to be done yet, but that's not much, thank goodness) and I'm taking a baking break. So I've selected the Christmas cards I intend to send on their way to distant countries - no self-made ones, with two exception, as I was way too busy with other projects - and started writing the list to whom they are supposed to go. At the moment there are ten names on that list, and four empty spaces that will doubtlessly be filled, soon.
No actual writing was done today, but I went through the timeline for "Charmed into Darkness" with the fine-toothed comb and wrote down a rough layout for the story. I've come to 24 chapters, which is doable, as three of them are already written, another three need serious rewriting but actually exist, and now that I've changed the concept to adapt the basic line of events from Charmed's late 3rd and early 4th season, the whole thing looks more or less coherent. I hope it will work. *fingers crossed*
Other than that I was mostly housewife-y today. I took down the dried washing, I cooked lunch, I helped Mum rearranging the living room for tomorrow's cleaning frenzy. And I talked to my Ilonka on the phone about possibly delivering this Advent calendar to her before Advent would actually start... or not too much later. Fortunately, the little boy for whom it is meant is still too young to notice any potential lateness (or to care much for the whole thing yet) at the age of 14 or so months. *g*
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Date: 2023-11-27 03:16 am (UTC)I don't really decorate for Christmas at all. If I do it's just a few things.
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Date: 2023-11-27 10:51 am (UTC)Someone down the road from me decorates their garden. I use the term 'decorate' very loosely. They string lots of multi coloured, twinkling lights, all over everything, totally randomly. It looks like fairy vomit.
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Date: 2023-11-30 11:24 pm (UTC)Our neighbor decorates his yard for every occasion: New years, Mardi Gras, Easter, July 4th, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and more. When I say decorate, he goes all out. This year, he has Santa in a sleigh being pulled by alligators (because our state has lots of swampy land), a decorated outdoor Christmas tree, colored lights, candy canes, ornaments in the trees, and more. My husband can't get around, so our decorations outside are limited to a wreath on the door. We only put up a tree if I have energy, and usually, I don't get around to it until Christmas eve.