Christmas minus 3 Days Meltdown Free

so the last time i wrote other than proclaim to anyone who happened by chance to land here that it was my birthday, i was having a meltdown.  well i'm not having a meltdown anymore.  i haven't accomplished much either, however.  i have decided to live and let live.  how very zen of me.  so with 3 days until x-mas here is what i've accomplished:

1.  decorating -- not done.  no tree up yet.  if at all.  everything is out.  but the tree must be put together (we never got around to getting our own griswold family x-mas tree).  instead of a real tree though, i did make this.

inspired by the craftymodster and lolly, i too jumped the funfur x-mas tree/hat bandwagon. 

before stuffing. 

my hat/tree is 11.5 inches in diameter and 18 inches tall. i knit mine from the top down in the round with a strand of lionbrand homespun (1 skein) and funfur (2 skeins) until i ran out of funfur, leaving me just enough of the homespun to crochet a base in the round. 

now i need to decorate it.  hmmm.  or not... (not going to worry about it not going to worry about it not going to worry about it). 

2.  gift knits -- all done.  and not very interesting but i think the recipients will like them.  i hope anyway.

this is for j's aunt claire.  she's 80something and lives in an assisted living home type thing (it's like a college dorm for the elderly -- it's actually kind of cool.)  she's one of those people who is always appreciative of a handmade item, so i think she'll like it.  and it will keep her warm during her weekly trips shopping.

boa scarves out of bernat boa for three little girls.  little girls are all about the boa.

3. other christmas shopping also done.  the meat has been ordered.  the gift cards purchased.  i have a box to a niece and nephew in VA to go but i won't send it until tomorrow.  i'll write a little note saying that santa made a mistake and delivered the stuff to our house instead.   because that's the truth.

j went out a bought what he wanted and i'm going to wrap it.  i know not very fun, but at least he got what he wanted.  (although i did get him some "surprises.")  as for me, i have a box of knitpicks yarn that i ordered for myself last month, still unopened.  joe's going to wrap that for me.  x-mas cards still not written though but by having cards with the vague happy holidays greeting, i can conceivably send these out sometime in january and still be well within the window .... it's all about being within the window.

so other than some stocking stuffers, i'm done if i want to be.  yay.

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*no animals were harmed*

this is what j likes to do -- torture animals ....

dude, get that fucking cat off of me......