I'm trying very hard not to give in to that post-Christmas let-down feeling, because it's no good to head into a New Year feeling blue, but January is so grim after sybaritic December. You have to start watching what you spend and eat again, whip your house into shape, make stalwart resolutions that you know you won't keep...oh, it's grim!
Actually, I have a lot of things I'm looking forward to accomplishing and enjoying in 2010, and I hope it will be a good year...but first I've got to get through the next week or two of putting the Christmas stuff away, getting re-organized, making lists and plans. Boring!
Our holiday company left this morning, too, so that contributes to the anti-climactic feeling. The house feels empty without John and Viv in it.
We had a nice Christmas together. On Christmas Eve morning we went up and strolled around Colonial Williamsburg, taking in the holiday decorations. It was COLD.
The decorations were gorgeous...every shop and house puts up different kinds of wreaths and hangings, and it's fun to see what they come up with.
I thought my cheeks were going to freeze off.
Christmas morning we got up, had breakfast, opened some presents, and then my friend Beverly came up from Virginia Beach to have lunch with us. It was a really relaxing day.
Bev got me a "Slanket," among other things, for Christmas. I had been thinking wistfully about those things earlier in the week, because it's been so cold here, and voila! One for my very own. It's warm, too!
I got Bev a bunch of tropical-themed stuff, among which was "Blue Hawaii" with Elvis, so we watched that after dinner and laughed our heads off. Then after she went home, we played a game and sank into a ham-and-cookie coma.
I hope everybody else had a great Christmas, too.
6 comments:
Just wanted to pop in and wish you a Happy New Years Janelle! I hope 2010 is spectacular for you!!
January is always such a downer, I know! I've stopped making resolutions, because I don't think that January needs one more thing to feel bad about (ie, not keeping your resolution)! :)
Happy New Year!
sybaritic ...I had to look that one up. Perfect.
Hope 2010 finds you happy and healthy and still blogging a lot for my reading pleasure. :)
P.S. Maybe freezing cheeks off is the new weight loss sensation. Can I please freeze off my saddlebags? ;)
Hope you have a fabulous 2010! Hopefully you can find something to perk you up, now that the frenzy of the holidays are over. Love the pic of you in your Slanket! LOL! I, for one, was just getting excited about having some mellow time ... but the universe seems to have different ideas!
Happy New Year! I always relish cleaning up after Christmas - everything around here seems so clean and nice! Or, maybe it's just that I have such a small house it's nice to get Christmas put away so that it looks roomier!
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