Anal, Forgetful Or Just Going Insane?

I am on a new project and Christmas is not even over yet now I am wondering if that is the reason why only the gold balls are on the tree... the crafts which I am pretty well getting tired of doing are still sitting on my dining room table waiting, all gifts that I have bought are not bagged or wrapped. This week it is all getting done or put away and will finish up the crafts especially next year...

From the looks of the forecast I may have a day or two home which is always good for me, though I did take the time this weekend and picked up a book that I have been wanting to read... ohhh the thought of snow falling, hot cup of tea, a warm blankets and a book... what more can one ask for.....

Peter, Pauline and the boys arrived Saturday night until the 28th...we have children for Christmas... always nice to have... and Flo showed up Sunday night until the 28th as well... The house is officially over flowing... not my place... mom and dad's ... it has been a long time since there was that many people in the house for that length of time...

I almost had a major melt down last night after dinner when I sat down to figure out how many was coming for Christmas dinner. As most of the family knows I do have Christmas dishes and any one follow my poor Project 2009 (will explain what happened to the last month) knows that I finally found Christmas flatware to go with the dishes this year.... and was I excited over that one... So when the count went over what I had in dishes it was not a pretty sight if you were sitting across from me.... I did get pointed out by smarty pants that I don't have enough glasses for everybody as well and not everyone wants water with there meal either. The man lives a dangerous life I have to say and a threat that could be solved very easily this morning with a trip to town and the most expensive place to get glasses to make the count right. "eyes looked at him over the glasses"

A few years ago I turned my living room to sit everyone together.. .Not going to happen this year. Number three table has been found and a place for it other then the dining room... I still have the problem with the dishes or lack of... maybe this week the fliers will come in the house (they usually just get thrown out) to see if there is a solution in them... I know I am way too anal over things like this .. it is not my fault... I have a thing about what a table should look like especially when company is coming ... and things have to match... great looking table just makes great meals.. .My home Ed still kicks in every once in a while... like when I am setting the table... Ask Carl... Christmas eve night after all the visiting is done I am in the dining room starting to set up tables for the next night.. and there is no way he will even think to offer to help because I know he knows that I think he would do it wrong and in all honesty in my eyes ... he would... poor man that has to live with me when I am like this.. LOL...

So as you can see I maybe way behind in the actions but I have everything under almost control in my mind.... what little mind I have.. .thought I would say it before someone else did...

I could write an other blog on project 2009 but I am just going to make this one a little longer... so about 3 weeks ago I started cleaning up all the everyday stuff so the Christmas stuff can come out... and somewhere along the way I picked up my charger for my camera put it somewhere and then totally forgot where I put it with one battery dead and the other one on its last leg... so there has not been any pictures taken for the last few weeks.. now I could really cheat on this and go around the house and snap photos of what I have been doing all this time in one day and just pretend that it didn't happen... but then that is not right.. so I did find the charger in the closet in the sitting room... why I would even think of putting it there and remembering God only knows.. .but I was in the closet looking for my sister's Christmas gift that I have misplaced as well... I hope I get to find it before Christmas because I have looked for it everywhere and it is not to be found... but that is not the only thing I can't find here in the last while.. two rings as well but I think they are in with my knitting stuff which I put away so I could do crafts for Christmas... and then there is the winter boots that I bought last year and have no idea what so ever where I put them last spring... I am not a very organized person at all.. it is so sad... or I am just losing my mind. Carl laughs at me when I sit down in the morning with my note book and write everything I have to do for the day and then continue on crossing out what I have done and push what is not done to the next day... I mean even the simplest thing as mailing something... (which reminds me Tommy your birthday card just got in the mail this afternoon so it may be late... it is not mom and dad's fault... blame me.. it was not written down until this morning to do) I also have a bag (thanks to Pat) that I have hanging on the chair in the kitchen and anything going with me that morning is put in there if not it just doesn't get to where it is suppose to be going...

Well I think that is it for today... hopefully sometimes this week I will remember that I actually write this thing and come back with some updates and maybe even some pictures of the tree we got this year... when for the real thing...

Have a great one all Joanne