1/12/06

* * * I know I’ve mentioned in the past that during the Christmas season, my parents’ house looks like the Christmas section of a department store threw up all over the house. This year, there was even more stuff, because my mother inherited a lot of stuff from my grandmother. My parents start decorating their house the day after Thanksgiving, usually, and it generally takes several days to get everything unpacked and displayed just so (and then my mother spends the next three weeks rearranging everything. Heh.). So I took pictures of some of the Christmas decorations in my parents’ house. Right now, Fred’s thanking his lucky stars that I don’t have this much Christmas stuff, because it would drive him NUTS.

The Christmas dishes. I love, love, LOVE this little elf. Usually he’s in the tree or on top of the Grandfather clock on the living room, but I guess Mom decided to mix things up this year. Santa’s village? Is that the name of it? Whatever, it’s a little village of light-up houses and stores and stuff. I wish my mantel was as big as my parents’. I love their tree. I especially love sitting and looking at the ornaments and remembering from whence they came. Have I mentioned that my mother collects Santas? More Santas, underneath and above the TV. (I don’t know who was watching Tony Danza. Wasn’t ME, that’s all I know.) This is new this year. My mother took down the pictures that hang on this wall during the year and replaced them with Christmas-themed pictures. The amount of work they put into decorating their house for Christmas makes me want to go take a nap. I think this is a cool idea, though. I might have to do something similar (on a smaller scale) next year. That’s me at 16 – almost 17 – in the Santa hat on the right. It’s one of my favorite pictures of me, ever.
Y’all are saying “When the hell is she going to stop with the freakin’ pictures from Maine?!”, aren’t you? Well, good news: I have some animal pics for tomorrow, and then life can get back to normal here on Bitchypoo. Well, normal as it ever gets.
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I cleaned yesterday, because I couldn’t stand the filth in every single room. It took me three hours to clean the upstairs bathroom, dust, change the sheets on my bed and Fred’s, and vacuum the entire house. It’s almost bearable, now. Today, I intend to clean the floors in the kitchen, dining room, and hallway, because they are nas-tay. My resolution for 2006 is to scrub the floors at least once every other week, because between Fred spilling tea on the floor and then the cats tromping through the tea, and just the general grime of being a house where three people and six cats live, I can barely stand to look at my floors, especially the kitchen floor. If you visit, it’s probably best that you wear shoes in the house – at least in the kitchen – because I wouldn’t want to be responsible for you catching anything. Hey, at least our house isn’t as bad as the family on Wife Swap Monday night, with the dead rat laying under the table in the house. That right there was a nasty-ass house. Every time I think I keep a messy house, some family shows up on Wife Swap or Trading Spouses to make me feel better about my housekeeping skills.
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Going after the camera strap. What a butt-kisser. This makes me want to take a nap.
All of today’s uploaded pictures are here.
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Previously 2005: (YES, GODDAMNIT! I HAVE CONFIRMED THAT YOU CAN, IN FACT, BEGIN WRITING THE FUCKING CHECK BEFORE YOU ACTUALLY HEAR WHAT THE TOTAL IS, YOU IN-MY-WAY MOTHERFUCKER!) 2004: I need to go crack open a beer, watch the game, scratch my balls, and think about what this means. 2003: No entry. 2002: No entry. 2001: “Yeah, so you‘ll be the one with the big head blocking everyone else’s view.” 2000: No, I’m not on any drugs, why do you ask?]]>

19 thoughts on “1/12/06”

  2. ooh – we have that little elf! I don’t think ours is red though – maybe green. now I have to call my mom and find out.

  3. Oh oh. I have that set of Christmas dishes. I collect Santas. I start decorating the day after Thanksgiving, and it takes a few days to finish.
    *sob* I don’t WANNA be your mom, Robyn!

  4. Oh no, don’t you dare stop those photos…. You know we all live our lives through you. And honey you ain’t seen a dirty house till you’ve seen my sister-in-laws — ugh….

  5. I cannot begin to think how much “work” your Mom went to to get all that Christmas stuff up. It is beautiful though. I loooove me some Christmas! The tree is what I loved best and the Christmas dishes in the china cabinet. How I envy your Mother. PO ME!! Your kitty pictures are great too. Love me some Sutarbutt and Tom Cullen!!! Nanamama 😉

  6. Good Heavens that should be Sugarbutt instead of sutarbutt…I mustof hit the wrong key. Po Po Po ME!!
    Nanamama 😉

  7. I hate hate HATE scrubbing the floors. I put it off much longer than should be allowed (though I do sweep often). Why can’t they make something that is fast & painless to scrub the floors? I’ve tried vacuum-type wet floor cleaners, but it doesn’t seem that they actually clean floors all that well. If I win the lottery I’m having someone come in to mop the floors weekly b/c I love how a clean floor feels underneath bare feet (I’m a dork, I know).

  8. My Mom has that Elf too! I think ours is green also. I seem to vaguely remember him coming wrapped around a bottle of maple syrup or something when I was really little, but maybe not. Also Robyn, nobody was watching Tony Danza – I think that shot is Tony reading Dave’s Top Ten list on The Late Show… that looks like Dave’s background. (I loves me some Dave…can you tell??)

  9. I’m a bit frightened by all that Christmas stuff! Wow. The Christmas-themed photos is indeed a neat idea, though.
    Buttkisser? ButtLICKER! Bleah…

  11. I have the elf too! Mine is white with red trim on the hat…my mom bought it for me when I was a baby. It hung on the tree at my parents and when I got married my mom gave me all the ornaments that were mine and then some. She’s insane about Christmas decorating. Every year we all get at least 2 ornaments a piece…which is minimally 10 ornaments added to my tree every year…for 20 years now. So my mom got a second little tree last year for the overflow! The Charlie Brown Tree we call it…okay, I’m rambling….

  13. What you neglected to mention is that each and EVERY one of those christmas dishes will be the spuds when she is grown and on her own:P And that elf? Its older than all of us kids:)

  14. What, they didn’t display the Santa riding the rocket (that looks like a bomb) that Uncle Bob made way back when. Dibs! I don’t think these elves are the originals. Waaaay back they didn’t used to have plastic heads, but clay of some sort. That confused me the last time I saw them – they seem the same but..not..quite. And one of them used to have a chewed off foot (Coco, Taffy?), which I couldn’t find. Too new, too suspicious.

  16. Sharon – great, now I’m totally coveting the Scooba!! I might just sell my kidney for one!

  17. The elf!! That picture made the hair on the back of my neck stand up!! We had the same elf (and a Santa to go with). Wow.
    Amy, now tripping down memory lane..

  19. Well, those elves are at least 44 years old, cause that’s how old I am. Unless you’re talking about older than that.

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