Tis the season

There is a rule in my family that we don't put up any Christmas decorations until the start of December. This rule exists for an obvious reason - every year it seems like the stores get their Christmas stuff out earlier and earlier. I think things finally reached a new level of insanity last year when I saw stockings on sale at the Dollarama in the middle of the summer. Fortunately, things haven't been that bad this year (although I did see wooden ornaments at Micheal's at the start of August. I let this slide because these were ornaments that you had to decorate yourself, and being pretty crafty myself, I know that things can take months to plan and even longer to actually create. But still... it is pretty damn early).

Things are different this year. What with the ex fix surgery coming up at the end of November and buckets of pain and a narcotic induced haze awaiting me for all of the holiday season and beyond, I know that I probably won't get to enjoy Christmas very much this year. So today I broke the family rule and put up my little tree and hung up a few ornaments around my room. Nothing crazy or excessive; just a little bit to get me in the holiday mood and allow me to enjoy the season.

My tree!

We will also be getting out Christmas tree before surgery. We are hoping Ikea has them on sale by the 23rd, which will allow us to decorate it on the 24th, the day before surgery. You can never go wrong with an Ikea Christmas tree. They only cost 20$ and last well into the new year until the christmas tree colelction date set by the landfill.

Last year I bought some lovely chalkboard tags. I had no clue what to do with them, but they were super cute (and the price was right). They have been sitting in a box with the Christmas decorations under my bed for months on end. Every so often I got them out and tried to figure out what to do with them. Inspiration never struck, until today! Nothing says keeping your spirits up like some word puns and twisted humor.

Other than decorating a bit and coming up with horrible tibia related puns, there has not been much going on lately. I have been playing around with my blog a bit and experimenting with some html codes. Today, for instance, I learned how to make a blog button! I am probably way more excited about this than I should be, but given how much time I have on my hands and how little I have to fill it because being dependent on crutches severely limits one's activities, this is a pretty big thing. Maybe even the highlight of me week.

Seriously though, I am not a computer person, and my experience with html in high school wasn't exactly stellar to begin with. So figuring out how out how to add a button to my blog is pretty exciting for me. My next goal is to make my own banner/title for my blog. This might take a while, so don't expect to see anything soon.

Tomorrow afternoon  I have my pre-op appointment in Hamilton. That will easily eat up three hours in the afternoon, plus the almost hour long car ride to the hospital (and hour long drive back home). I am looking forward to the cake severed in the hospital cafeteria; I have a thing for hospital cake... don't judge. That appointment is followed by a relaxing cross stitch filled weekend, hopefully a trip to Dundrun Castle with mum next week (because they should have their Christmas decorations up and I am enjoying the holiday build up while I can), and an appointment with infectious disease on the 17th, before surgery itself on the 25th (gulp).

I just have to keep reminding myself that everything is okay. Regardless of what happens and how things go, things will be alright and I can still be happy. And in the meantime, I can keep stitching and making horrible jokes.