***It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like CHRISTMAS THREAD***

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by GuinnessStout

Awe thanks my Dr bitches at me all the time because I do not take my pain killers like I am suppose to and wants to know why, simple I would rather learn to deal with and live with the pain the best I can instead of being an addict that depends on them... They even tried to force me to go on methadone to which I laughed in his face and told he could shove that script where the sun does not shine

Well, you are a strong, strong lady. Methadone sounds like a very strong, very serious drug and can't blame you for not taking it unless you absolutely couldn't live life without it. I imagine it would tear the stomach up plus the other bad side effects. I sure wish there were better answers for people in severe pain than strong opiates, etc.

[Lyenyi]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Since so many here are already talking about and even decorating and getting ready for Christmas, I thought it would be fun to have a thread for those of us that want to post what we've done each day to get ready for the Holidays.


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I'll start: Today I bought a couple of boxes of Little Debbie's Christmas and Holiday Iced Cakes at the grocery store. I wasn't really even in the mood for iced cakes but the boxes were so festive and holiday looking I couldn't resist. I've got them displayed on the kitchen counter. My first online Christmas shopping delivery came today - some things I bought for my son. I even stopped in at Toys R Us just to get a feel for what's popular this season and found the busiest shelves were at the Lalaloopsy Doll display. People were clamoring to get one or more boxes and frustrated because they couldn't find the one their daughter wants. I got so caught up in it I almost bought one!

I will decorate my home with LED lights to celebrate this Christmas

[yorkietalkjilly]

Love LED lights and now they makes them very bright! And many times battery operated on a timer! Very neat to let your lights turn themselves on and off daily.

[GuinnessStout]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Love LED lights and now they makes them very bright! And many times battery operated on a timer! Very neat to let your lights turn themselves on and off daily.

I even cheated some of mine are solar powered LEDs

[KazzyK810]

It's slow going this year...I'm tired when I get home from work, and it's sooo cold out, I'm only getting one or two things done each evening.

I now have all my outdoor icicle lights up, and tonight I hung a wreath on the breezeway door and put my santa out. Tomorrow, the other wreath goes on the front door & the little trees go on the front porch.

Can you see ZoE in the window? Her ears give her away...lol

[yorkietalkjilly]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I see little Zoe. It was like Where's Waldo at first and then I saw what looked like two little Yorkie ears!!!!! Oh, that is cuter than if you could see her well, I think. Just her little shadow there watching everything in silhouette. How sweet a picture is that????? That's so cute you should start a thread so all can see that. That's really a special picture with just a touch of Yorkiness hiding in it! I love that.

And your lights are so pretty, too. So pastel and pink and white and is that a little bit of yellow? Look like icing on a cupcake. And the whole picture topped off with a big, fat Santa Claus. Wonderful picture - thanks for sharing it.

[KazzyK810]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

And your lights are so pretty, too. So pastel and pink and white and is that a little bit of yellow? Look like icing on a cupcake. And the whole picture topped off with a big, fat Santa Claus. Wonderful picture - thanks for sharing it.

They're regular bright multi-colour lights....I think it's the flash making them appear paler/pastel...the santa isn't orange either, he's bright red in reality & 5ft tall!

Santa's been in the back of my garage since the move & I didn't use him last year, but after reading about your big santa, I thought about using him. Then when I mentioned it to my kids over their Thanksgiving break they said, Mum you HAVE to put him out! I live on a main road now, with quite a bit of traffic (for a two lane countryish road), and was convinced by them that all the little kids that ride by would enjoy seeing him. So out he went!

[Tessa327]

It's beginning to smell a lot like Christmas in the kitchen for us. Tessa and Daisy have been munching on holiday treats all day long!

I still need to work on my Christmas cards still. Don't know why I'm slacking on those. Maybe if I wasn't on YT almost all day long lol

[KazzyK810]

I went on a crazy shopping spree today! And this is horrible but....every "gift" that I bought was for me! Well, other than a harness for ZoE that was waaaay too cute to pass up.

It was so pretty coming home in the early evening and pulling into the driveway and see all my outside lights lit up .

[yorkietalkjilly]

LOL. That sounds like some of my Christmas shopping trips. You are in the mood to shop and there is all this neat, neat stuff and Christmas is the time to splurge, etc. This year with my unexpected bills, I won't be doing much but there is always next year!!!

And sadly, the fiber optic tree I bought on Amazon turned out to be disappointing after I lived with it a bit. It looked dusty and the ornaments over many of the fiber-optic ends were dusty inside - or at least cloudy looking. Finally, I contacted them and Fed Ex is picking it up. Now I've got to either haul out my big tree from the garage and the pounds of ornaments or buy a little cheap tree and ornaments to see me through the season. So, I thought I might go different this year - maybe a pink or red faux tree!!! IDK, may change my mind when I'm faced with actually getting one at the store. Maybe a pink prelit tree with white lights with red bows for ornaments. My big Shirley Temple doll in her pink dress holding the candy cane in her hand could look good standing on one side of a pink and red tree with Santa Claus and his big bag on the other.

[KazzyK810]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

So, I thought I might go different this year - maybe a pink or red faux tree!!! IDK, may change my mind when I'm faced with actually getting one at the store. Maybe a pink prelit tree with white lights with red bows for ornaments. My big Shirley Temple doll in her pink dress holding the candy cane in her hand could look good standing on one side of a pink and red tree with Santa Claus and his big bag on the other.

Look! At lil 4ft pink tree only $29 and it comes with lights too!

4 foot Christmas Tree - Pink - General Foam Plastic - Toys "R" Us

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by KazzyK810

Look! At lil 4ft pink tree only $29 and it comes with lights too!

4 foot Christmas Tree - Pink - General Foam Plastic - Toys "R" Us

Oh, thanks for the link. That's a cute little tree! Hmmmm.

[sandy simpson]

Today we put up the lights and tomorrow we put up the tree. I love Christmas. This year I am going to try to spend some time each day reading the gospels about the birth of Jesus and thinking how blessed we are to have a Savior who loved us so much to come to earth. Let us all go in haste like the shepards did to the manger and ponder this great mystery that has been revealed to us.

[GuinnessStout]

I really need to go get my cinnamon broom for this year, it's just not Christmas till my house smells like a tree and cinnamon

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by GuinnessStout

I really need to go get my cinnamon broom for this year, it's just not Christmas till my house smells like a tree and cinnamon

I got some of those cinnamon pine cones before Thanksgiving as I do every year. They, and the sugarcookie candles sure to help the house smell good, don't they? One year I got a batch of the cones for the living room hearth and a batch to sit in the kitchen and I had to remove the ones from the living room and put them on the Utility Porch. The scent was so strong it was was overpowering! Even our clothes smelled like cinnamon.

I'm not sure what a cinnamon broom is, though?