Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

Oh boy. December first already. I suddenly thought about it yesterday but by then it was too late. I was thinking of giving you fair warning that I'd be doing this again but it had already gone midnight over here so what would be the point, since it wouldn't really be fair warning?

First one in my calendar this year.

A Santa face.

This year Yuki has one with mini markies in so they're all the same.

We got our first Christmas card from a neighbour. A few people have had decorations up for a few weeks but I've been very adamant that we will only start from the first of December. I've been waiting for it for a month, because we always leave it late to put up decorations these days, sometimes we just throw them up on Christmas Eve.

We've been watching Christmas films on the weekends which are usually cheerful. Even though the TV doesn't always work. Napoleon still hasn't come to fix the aerial. I couldn't really ask him to in this weather. We have a little indoor aerial now and to get it to the right spot I had to dance about with it until we got a signal, hold it in a rather uncomfortable position and then yell at mum to get something to put it on. We ended up getting pretty much all of our old video cassettes to prop it up on and I had to duct tape them together for safety. It was only meant to be for a week or so but it seems to have become semi permanent now. It keeps shifting and we need to get a better system in place.

So. Until today I've been pretty excited about it all. Then first of the month rolled in and now I'm a little unhappy about it. I'm not sad. Not yet. But I'm just not happy about it now. I've only made four Christmas cards this year. By this time last year I had something like ten or twelve didn't I? Mum keeps nagging me to do it but I just don't want to yet.

I think it's just a normal mood swing. You know I always get depressed at Christmas. Also. To make matters worse I haven't done any Christmas shopping nor do I have any plans for "perfect" Christmas gifts this year. I don't really have any plans this year either. I've decided to let some things just happen as they will and I'm trying not to over think it. I think that's one of the reasons I get depressed at Christmas.

I do have one Christmas present for Napoleon. I was just looking around and saw that Tesco have a Christmas Danger Mouse T-shirt this year. I wasn't sure I'd get him another shirt I knew he wouldn't wear but since I got him Danger Mouse for his birthday it seemed appropriate.

I'm pretty sure about one thing though. I really want to bake gingerbread for Christmas. Because I really wanted some I baked some last week, but I was a little short on flour but they turned out okay. I got an electric mixer. Pretty pleased with it.

So. That's all for now.

Bluebiird out.