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My wish list for Christmas is for my house to be done for Nik @gofund.me/nikadoo

Packing! Aloha...

Whooo HOOO Margaret *Aloha* hope you have a wonderful trip *waving*;)

*waving* Margo. Mele Kalikimaka!

Hau'oli Makahiki Hou;))

I plan to paint the living room walls, as well as the inside of the coat closet, and broom/storage closet.

Prod my contractor to finish my new study bookshelves, before Christmas deadline, for the study. Get some new clothes, Get some new window chests and lamps to flank living room fireplace.
We are aging and so are our friends. Because so many are gone to kids, warm climes, etc., we entertain fewer and they all want a comfy place to sit. So I want to begin to buy, swipe from rest of house enough comfy chairs to rearrange fairly small living room to seat 14 to solve that need. That's right, I have no intention to down size, rather to stuff the space I have. Any suggetions?

Stock up with victuals, barricade myself in and hibernate until 2/1/2015.

To enjoy the Spirit of Christmas.

Hoping to get our retaining wall installed to then get our pool dug. We're in Ohio so, keeping the fingers crossed that the weather will cooperate. AND, enjoy a wonderful Christmas season!

Decorate my tree! Have had an awful cold for over a week and my tree is just standing there...bare! Did get the lights on so at nighttime, when I plug in the lights, it looks from the outside, that all is well. If I don't soon get rid of this cold, may leave the tree just as it is! Oh, well...

packing!

Got to get hopping on the shopping. Way behind this year. Wrap gifts, bake, dogs to groomer, and on and on. Whew--Christmas is a lot of work!

Relaxing in a deck chair in Phuket until Dec 22nd, then embarking on a cruise from Singapore . Pure bliss!!!!

Two years ago I bought a condo in a retirement community and decorated it into debt so I had to move to a smaller place. I'm 64 years old and was forced into retirement at 60 so I'm living on limited funds and instead of hardwoods I had laminates put in and, believe it or not, I like them better. The cost, I discovered, is not much different from hardwoods, unfortunately. I had painters come in and the cheapest I could find was $3200 (not including the paint). Everything else will have to be done by me or saved for. I have redesigned the 50 year old kitchen cabinets by moving the handle from the center of the door to the edge. I have removed shelves from a closet and turned it into a mini-garage for tools and ladders and such. I turned a coat closet into a pantry. I have yet to put in a backsplash in the kitchen which I will attempt to do myself. I will also attempt tiling the bathroom floor which is currently covered in linoleum. I want to take out the 50 year old vanities and buy dressers from a used furniture store and put in vessel sinks. I didn't have a lot of room in my bedroom for my armoire so I bumped out a closet and made an alcove for it. There are a ton of other things I need to do to update the house and I will attempt most of them except I won't touch anything electrical - for that I will call and electrician. I still have my sun room piled to the ceiling with boxes of stuff that needs to be put away, but can't be done until other things are done. Other than that, I'm good and still putting up a tree!!!!

Work on my tan in Mexico!

Prepare for the cold weather and the winter which never disappoints

Had a bath and a half completely t emodeled.now having all trim and doors replaced with white from the old outdated brown. Hoping to be done be Christmas. When January rolls around going on focus on the dining room which now does not go with the rest of the hose.Wish me luck.

Plant my bulbs! I live in Victoria, BC so lucky I can still do it in December!

Any decorations I don't use this year are not going back in storage. Have one box ready to go.

Having my 3rd floor bathroom painted, includes a beautiful eyebrow window and curved ceiling!

To Depo SD: Oh s#!t, er, I mean Ole!!!

lettie245- I love your spirit!;))

Miss Margo at my age it is not spirit, it is resolve to make it through the wind chill and hope that I am not the one with no power and our machines will not let us down, the furnace continues to work. lol

learning how to tape and texture. And then paint and glaze

Scheduled to put up tree and decorate home of a much older friend! Excited!!!

I'm hoping none of you participated in the "What are you doing in September?" postings. Or, maybe it would be easier if you had. My to-do list is prob. almost the same now as it was then, except now there's cold blasts of air outside (Chicago Metro Area)! A truly lovely autumn made me feel as if winter wasn't really on its way. The tree needs to be put together, the outside lights and decor aren't even started. The Christmas Villages are all over the living room, display partially put together. On the bright side, china us clean, gift shopping is done, three teenage grandkids (all live very nearby) will wrap and help with tree. KNOW I should just give up doing some of this stuff, but can't/don't want to yet!!! Did do the annual lunch and shopping for ornaments with two of the three grandkids. We had fun!

Oh how I/we detest Christmas. All that anxiety and stress for one day. I'm just totally over it. The one concession I made was sending Christmas cards. Three years ago, we were o/seas, so I sent out 49 cards, and got 10 back. Most of the recipients had either stopped sending cards, or were too mean to pay an extra 5 cents per stamp. So I thought why do I bother, so that too has halted. I know a lot of people love Christmas. I wish I did still.

I would like to build a simple retaining wall and fire pit

I am one of those who LOVE the holidays. On Thanksgiving eve, after we've prepped our Turkey Day dinner and had pizza for supper, my little girl and I put up our tree. This year we put up a 7 1/2' slender one because the big one is packed for our move.

I am pretty much done packing the stuff the movers will take on Tuesday, Dec. 9th. Then it's off to the Parent/Teacher conference. On Wed. is my mammo, and Thurs. we fly out on a 2 week vacation to our new city to do a variety of things like see our new house that's being finished (hopefully) this week, meet the movers, put up the big tree, unpack some things, check out my daughter's new school and find out what they need for her to transfer there, find out where the nearest grocery store might be, get bank accounts started, electric, gas, etc.

I have a few Holiday cards to get written and sent out in the next couple of days, but I am not baking this year due to the move (usually do about 1000 gingerbread boys). My daughter is a little upset about this because she won't get to decorate a cookie for Santa . . . but then she knows now that each of us is Santa in our own way (she confessed to planning to stay awake to sneak out and eat the cookie so I would think Santa had come!).

When we get back to our current home, we'll have about 5 weeks of work, packing last minute stuff, cleaning the rental and turning over the keys . . . but that's into January and you only wanted December!

Happy Holidays Everyone!

My head is spinning -- there is so much going on starting with foot surgery, sanding wooden floors & applying new stain color, a lot of painting, bathroom remodel, new floor in bedroom ...... Oh, & I have Christmas Eve dinner too :). :0

aaaaw midnightrose- no need to detest Christmas, just take out the commercialism and obligatory feelings. Play some music, light a candle, sip some hot cocoa, take a ride and look at the lights, and watch the 1958 version of *Scrooge* with Alistar Simms, that will take away the "bah humbug";))

Annual cookie exchange, decorate, dinners, & I'm in the catering business so parties UGH!, then off for a staycation!!! my favorite time of the year to be at home!

Shop, send cards, bake cookies, eat the cookies, bake another batch. Decorate the tree, Cut fresh green for mantel ( on tomorrow's list). Progressive dinner plans. Find time to sit by my window, admire everything while enjoying music and a cup of hot tea. Wish you could join me.

Deciding that this decorating, cleaning, cooking is for the birds, in years to come, I am just going to go someplace Christmas-sy, let our adult children do their own thing.

Enjoy the Holiday and clean the garage.

Surviving.

S

4 candles - 1 per Sunday during Advent. Midnight mass on Christmas eve. Brunch with the adult kids on Christmas morning, and not much else. Not into the whole commercial / shopping madness / party / decorating schtik.