Moving On – Next.

After all that build up, hype & excitement the Big Day has come, and gone. Now we are waist deep in the gap between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Forget making plans. If you haven’t had them made for a few weeks by now, don’t bother. Trying to get people on the phone, or to answer text messages is nearly impossible. Or perhaps it’s just me. But, point still stands. It’s a weird time, and a strange floating, weightless, dateless, what day is it? Kind of time. Not my favourite.

I was keeping busy by cleaning the furnace/laundry room, emptying closets, dressers and drawers of junk & old clothes. Tidying up, organizing and cleaning our basement so that we could use the space once more. The other tv is down there! It now has an old dvd/bluray player so the tv has more utility to our family now. I reclaimed floor space, and thinned out my share of books to create additional play space and storage for the kids ever expanded collection of Lego sets. After I vacuumed, and dusted, and thought about mopping the floors I have finished what I can do down there, for now. Now I’m back to floating around aimlessly. I mean, I still have laundry to do, groceries to buy, dishes to wash, kids to bathe, and general household stuff. Work has been put off until January by those that request it, so… household projects it is. We’ve donated children’s clothes, adult clothes, and books in order to open up floor space and empty closets. In that regard there isn’t much else we can do – for now.

The girls opened up the last of their presents today. They decided to save two each for the next day so that Christmas wouldn’t end so quickly. I admire the restraint. I certainly didn’t show that sort of ability as a small child. But then again our family ends up having to wait for other people to begin, and pushing to open the day after, so perhaps after several years of conditioning the kids have adapted to it. I know I hate it, but my side of the family was a free for all tear through your gifts as you like, not a one by one wait and watch like my in-laws. It’s really upsetting if you transition to the “let’s drag this out over a few says” crowd, coming from a mad dash to open and start playing with it all position. Ugh! I get why they do it, but i also don’t care for ‘credit’ for the purchase. Seems intentionally slow just to make the purchaser happy or more important. But that’s just me.

Boxing day is here. Tuesday even. Seems I missed the recycling people today. No one had bins out yesterday, and this morning there are several empty bins up the street. So not only did they come, they came about 8 hours earlier than they usually do. Gonna be a big batch next week! Who-ah!

Enjoy your holidays and time off to recharge for the new year ahead. Drive safe, drive sober, or Uber/Lyft/Taxi where you need to go. Ciao Bella!