The Land of Blahs...

I am NOT in the holiday spirit. Not. At. All.

Oh sure, most of my Xmas shopping is done, I'm making plans... I'm even looking forward to decorating the apartment and Doug's house. But I'm not feeling it.

I talked to Mom tonight and she's not feeling it either. I asked her if she'd bought the turkeys for TGiving and Xmas yet and she seemed surprised. She hadn't even thought about it. She's done no shopping at all.

So... we're going to fake it til we feel it, I suppose. I drug the box o Xmas crap outta the boogey man hole tonight and started going through it. Maybe getting some of it arranged will help a bit.

And speaking of the boogeyman hole... get this.

I decided to get out the Winter clothes for the kids this past week. I sorted and straightened and made a pile for the babysitter's kid of stuff that Cady had outgrown and a pile for Cady of stuff that was either hers last year and still fits or that Madison had outgrown (and let me tell you... Madison has outgrown EVERYTHING).

I made a big ol pile of jeans on the floor in the girls' room and told Cady she could choose 10 pr of jeans that she LOVES and keep them. The rest were going away.

An hour later, she'd narrowed her choices to the pants she can't live without.

For giggles, I had her count the ones that were going away. Guess.

Higher. Way higher.

Yeah... 32 PAIRS OF JEANS!

32 Pairs that she WASN'T keeping.

How the hell did that happen?

So yeah, away they go. Because it is, after all, almost Christmas. Which means more crap.

It's reverse bulimia of stuff. Must purge before the binge.