commence primary insanity

[topaz119]

Getting the flu on December 6 (and only now feeling like almost normal again) is not optimal. Just sayin'.

I somehow managed to make it through picking up Oldest from his dorm, taking all three boys to the small museum with the amazing Egyptian collection on their free day; spent the next day in bed, calling in to assorted work-related meetings; spent the *next* day in Middle Earth (Fellowship started at 11:15 a.m. and we were walking out of the credits of RotK at 12:05, technically the following day); and then spent the rest of the week gradually working up to reality again.

As of this morning, I had 2 (of the 20 needed) gifts purchased. aieee.

I'd do the TV meme, except I can summarize it in 1 line: started watching Once Upon A Time. Didn't ditch anything old, though I'm behind on everything but Castle and Leverage (but only because BabyBoy watches them in the morning while he's waking up, so I see them as I'm running around doing my own morning routine), which means SPN and H50 are still taking up space on my DVR. Downton Abbey and the new Upstairs Downstairs also rotated through but I've watched all of them.

Good things:

I finally finished the curtain-fic epilogue for the Clint/Coulson I wrote during the summer, which is also known as the part I really wanted to write but couldn't make sense of for the longest time. It is very nice to have that out of my head!

I really couldn't believe how quickly the time passed while watching all three LOTR movies. I don't even know how many times we've seen them, so I thought we'd probably get bored in the middle, but no, not at all. Watching them all together on the big screen was really amazing, even if it did wipe out the entire weekend (and make me vaguely nauseated at the smell of popcorn now.)

There was a groupon or something (living social? maybe?) to have a Christmas tree delivered to the house -- $70 for an 8 ft Fraser fir, including delivery and I decided that after last year's Home Depot travesty of a tree, this couldn't be any worse, so I went ahead and did it. Not only was it not worse, it is quite possibly the best looking tree we've had in years and the nice man brought it right to my front door. This is good, because I doubt we'd have a tree yet if it hadn't just shown up at the beginning of the month. But! it did, and we do, and other than a slight mishap that resulted in a decapitated angel tree-topper, we have achieved Tree.

Comments

[musesfool]

The tree is lovely!

[topaz119]

I was very happy with it!

[sperrywink]

I'm behind on gift buying too.

Fantastic tree!

[topaz119]

I'm slightly less behind now, after a good session with amazon, but it's still pretty ugly.

The tree is being all twinkly and holiday-ish and is making me happy, though.

[rikes]

The tree looks amazing!

[topaz119]

Thanks! for buying it without seeing it, it turned out very nice!

[without_me]

Ugh, the flu SUCKS. And that's coming from someone with about 0.043% of the responsibilities you have. I hope you're well and truly over it soon.

[topaz119]

It was never horrible (except for the first day) but it was annoying and made me tired a lot. We'll see how much longer the cough lasts because I still sound like I have bronchitis (which I don't.)

[vickita]

That is a lovely tree!

[topaz119]

For buying it sight unseen, it turned out very well!

[pensnest]

A handsome and impressive tree.

We forgot to buy ours on Saturday, being preoccupied with drains, but acquired one yesterday. It's a bit slender for my taste, but for that very reason will fit into the tree stand without Beast having to spend about an hour sawing bits off the trunk. A fair compromise.

[topaz119]

Some years, it's all we can do just to get a tree. Having one is what counts, though D would tell your Beast he needs his very own chainsaw. Male solidarity, yes?

[kare.livejournal.com]

yay! Pretty tree!

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

It's very yay!

[geneli4.livejournal.com]

ugh, the flu. why is its timing always THE WORST? not that there's a good time to have the flu, but still. i'm glad you're finally feeling better!
also, i love your groupon tree - what a steal! and it's gorgeous, too!

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

Luckily, it was kind of a half-hearted case, but I still dragged around for almost a week.

The tree turned out amazingly well for a groupon!

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

That's a beautiful tree! And so handy.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I'd pay full price for it, but it was a very nice tree for almost zero effort!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Your tree is so pretty.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

For buying it off the internet sight unseen, it ended up being very nice!

[princesslanie.livejournal.com]

i hope your all better now, and have your shopping done. the tree is very nice and full sorry about your angel. i'm gonna check out groupon seem to see a bunch of cool things. i just need to hit walmart one last time get 4 gift cards and one toy, then i'm done yay.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I feel better & I'm getting close to done with the shopping, \o/. I'm taking the boys out in the morning to get their stuff for each other & then the wrapping fest can commence. I hope you have a good holiday!