Domestic Geek

Well, Marcus and I managed to get the lights up on the roof last night. We're both feeling sickly, so we were lucky to get that much done. Yay! Just as soon as I get home I'm going to decorate the tree, put up some other outside stuff and decorate the mantle. That's the plan, at least. I'm just killing time right now waiting for Marcus to get done with whatever it is he's working on so that we can go get some lunch. I'm really hungry. Oh, and I need to find my glasses. I couldn't find them anywhere.

I don't know what germs Marcus brought into our house, but I hate them. He was getting better, I thought I had gotten the upper hand and !WHAM! I'm sick. Grrrr. It's only an annoying cough and a small fever right now, but I'm still fighting. I managed to accomplish nothing yesterday. I didn't even watch The Year Without a Santa Claus. Well, I did chip ice away from where we need to put the ladder up today, but that's about it.

Marcus didn't end up getting home from work until 7:30 this morning. His alarm went off at 7 (as it does everyday), but he wasn't in bed. I got up and the light I had left on for him was still on. No Marcus. I check IM and my phone. No messages. Our workplace isn't in the greatest neighborhood, so of course all my thoughts turned to the worst. Fortunately, he answered his cell when I called and he was on his way home. *whew* I hope he wakes up before it gets dark so he can put up my outside lights. I don't do crawling around on the roof. I don't particularly want to spend the day in the ER. Getting him to bed at a decent hour tonight is going to be a pain, too. Oh, well.

OK, I'm going to go and try to get something accomplished today.

I've been watching that Christmas show marathon on ABC Family most of today to get myself into some Christmas spirit. It's funny because Marcus has never seen most of those shows. He keeps making fun of them and of me (I cry when Nestor the Long-Eared Donkey's mother dies — "Ears, Nestor" *sob*). He was asking about whatever happened to Rankin/Bass since they were the kings of Christmas specials back in the 60s and 70s. Quite a bit of information there on the old wikipedia page. I also found the Rankin/Bass website which led me to these adorable Heat Miser/Snow Miser ornaments that I must have for my collection. The Year Without a Santa Claus comes on here shortly and I can't wait —I LOVE the Miser brothers! I dug out my Miser dolls for the occasion!





I was trying to get the lights ready so that Marcus could get them put up before he left for work. No such luck. Oh, well. It's still supposed to be nice tomorrow, too. I plugged one set in and it shorted bad. I really need to replace a lot of those light strings. I'm pretty sure the one that blew was one that had belonged to my mother. I was bummed that there wouldn't be enough sets to go around the roof, but I found a couple of sets that I had purchased on clearance at Lowes a couple of years ago. Yay! I had bought them to be replacement bulbs (since buying whole light strings, especially after Christmas, is way cheaper than buying bulbs alone.

I painted the bulbs yellow in my new tree top star last night. It looks a lot better than being plain white. I'll see if I can get a decent picture to post later. Marcus set me up a directory on the server for my craft blog. I really want to start documenting my craftiness. I installed wordpress in it and now I need to find or design a cool theme. Not a high priority right at the moment, though.

OK, I'm gonna go work on Christmas cards and popcorn garland while I watch some more Christmas shows. Then I need to make Marcus a Santa graphic for his website, decorate my tree, make my new blog design...wow, I have a lot to do today. What am I doing sitting here?

You got to give it to those guys at Time Life...they sure come up with some really cool compilations! I'm watching one of those infomercials for Time Life where the guys from Air Supply are pimping the Soft Rock Collection. I want this set (11 CDs)! There are some awesome songs on here. I was just looking for some of them on iTunes and a lot of them aren't on there. Bummer.

OK, I've been crocheting away while I've been watching The Polar Express on ABC Family channel. I love that "Hot Chocolate" song from that movie. The animation is a little weird, but still a good story. I've got almost 23 feet of garland done up to this point. Yay, me!



There's a classic Christmas show marathon on ABC Family most of the day tomorrow. I'll have to check it out while I'm decorating. It's supposed to be in the 60s tomorrow, so hopefully I can get most of the outside stuff up before Marcus goes to work. Since the company Christmas party is tomorrow night (and we're not going because Marcus is Mr. Antisocial and I can't go by myself since I'm only part time), they're closing the whole place down so people can attend. They're a 24/7 operation, so the place to be totally shut down is rare. Marcus is using that time to take the networks down and do some work he's been itching to do since he started there.

I had intended on watching my Netflix DVDs early in the week so that I could have Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest here for this weekend's viewing pleasure. Oh, well.

I found a treetop star that $7 at Ace Hardware of all places. Every other one I saw around town that lit up was expensive and ugly.