A Spartan day

[wiseheart]

This is a term for a day when one deals with some long overdue chores, above one's daily schedule.

In that sense, I finally took down the Christmas tree today (I'd say it was time), cleaned up all the needles (save for those that buried themselves into the carpet, which we'll still be picking out around Easter), cooked lunch, put away the Christmas decorations and did some translation in the afternoon. *is beaten*

On other news, my first German pension finally arrived today. So I'm well and truly retired now.

Comments

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Wow, you still had your tree up? Shikeys! And congrats on being 'fully' retired now. :D

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Over here we don't put up the tree until Christmas Eve, and we in the family usually take it down on February 2 - sorry, don't know what the feast is called in English. But I still had a really bad cold at the beginning of the month, so we were behind schedule this year.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Over here, the trees would already be dried out tinder by them. That's still much long than we leave ours up. Needles are always a pain, quite literally if you get them stuck in your foot.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

True, but we usually keep it on the balcony, which is closed yet has no heating, and where it isn't underfoot, so it can stay for a long time. Before we'd arrange for the balcony to be closed by windows we kept the tree in the living room and were lucky if it lasted a fortnight.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

That makes sense, then.

[meathiel]

Definitely time to put the Xmas tree down ... Haha!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, we couldn't wait until the Easter Bunny got sore feet from the needles, could we? *g*

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Pension!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Indeed, a wonderful thing to have.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Over here, we call it Candlemas - Feb 2. I take my tree and nativity down then also. We have an artificial tree, 27 years old, as I bought it the year my son was born. I vacuumed more needles from it than I would if our tree was live. Congratulations on finally receiving your German pension.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Candlemas it is called in English? It's called very similar in Hungarian, too! I've learned something important again (trivia is important, no matter what people without imagination might say), thank you!