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Sunday, January 04, 2004

the Christmas stuff HAS to come down tonight

Tonight has to be the night. This is the longest we've ever left the Christmas tree up. And it's not sentimentality that has it still up, it's just pure laziness. Well, on my part. T always claims that he wants me to do it while he's gone because it's "too sad" for him, but I always suspect that he's slyly trying to get out of helping undecorate. Well, it's January 4th, Christmas has been over for almost two weeks; sadness shouldn't be a problem anymore, sweetie. So tonight's the night. While we're at it I'll clean the living room very thoroughly and see if I can find our DVD remote control. I never realized how much I depend on it till we were watching "We Were Soldiers" last night and I wanted SO BADLY to turn on the subtitles during the whispering parts, and I couldn't (I fully need Miracle Ear. I swear. I used to insist, in the manner of crotchety old men, that it wasn't my hearing, that people just mumbled, but I have finally realized that it's me. If there's any background noise people have to enunciate carefully or I have to ask them to repeat. Yeah, I'm only 29, why do you ask?).


I think, like mom-on-roof, I should take a picture of what's under my couch, to make all of you laugh, before I clean it out. But wait, no, I don't think I could stand that kind of humiliation. And I need to clean out under the cushions as well. Children + couch + lazy mom = really horrifying stuff under the couch cushions. (HOW long has it been since we had Froot Loops in the house??)


I am going to helpfully get out the boxes for the decorations while T is still gone getting dinner. Aren't I a good wife? :-D

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