I jinxed myself with my last post. I made the mistake of writing: "I thought the family Christmas dinner was going to be at my house, but
that might not happen now. Motivation to clean house has disappeared!"
Silly me. Really shouldn't have said that. At 10:00 PM Thursday night, my brother tossed all those plans out the window. Not only did the location change to my house, but the family gathering was switched from a day or two after Christmas to Sunday. So not only at my house, but several days earlier than planned. So I spent Friday and Saturday scrambling to get myself and the house ready to host the family Christmas today.
Everything went very well and we had a lot of fun, but I'm wiped out. I should sleep very well tonight! Oh, and of course, my regular readers are saying, "What about Reggie?" Yes. That was an issue. Reggie was the reason I didn't want to have celebrations at my house. He gets too upset. And today he broke the mold. He was so freaked out at the visitors, that he tried to crawl into the refirgerator when I opened it and a few minutes later he hid behind the washing machine and got stuck. We had to move the washer to get him. He's never done any of that before. (He did the washing machine stunt once before at somebody else's house, bt never here.) He was so upset I did something I've never done. I took him out to the garage and put him in the car. This would have been great yesterday, it was in the 40s. But the temperature dropped over night and it was in the low 20s (about 5 Celsius). The garage was warmer than that and the car was warmer than the garage, but still very cold for Reggie to be out there. I checked on him several times and he was usually curled up sleeping. I put his cape/coat on after a bit and brought him in after we ate. He never seemed to get too cold...excellent...and after sitting in my lap for 30 minutes, he eventually calmed down a bit.
So the Christmas rush is over. Oh wait...I don't have cards finished. Some have been mailed, but there are still more to do. I'll get those finished very soon, hopefully tomorrow.
BUT tomorrow, I'm going to a movie! Just so you know, I said that last Tuesday for Wednesday and I said it last Thursday for Friday, but I haven't been to a movie yet! Tomorrow I hope that I get to go. There isn't a lot out, but I'd like to see Atonement. Several people have also recommended Enchanted, but tomorrow I think I'll focus on Atonement. The movie is only out in limited release, but it is showing at one local theater...come join me.
And Merry Christmas!