Jessica Kelso

I’m avoiding work. This is what I do. I work all day, non stop, until I’ve almost completed whatever the task at hand is. The next day I start at it again, but with much less enthusiasm and it always seems to take the whole day to finish what could have been done in a good hours worth of work. I’m not sure why I do this. Maybe it’s because I get bored, or maybe it’s just pure laziness. Either way, it’s what I’m doing right now. . . and probably what I’ll be doing rest of the day.

This weekend we spent most of our time working in the yard. Let me rephrase that, Kevin spent most of his time working in the yard! I helped. I swept the sidewalk, played with Milo, pulled a couple of weeds ( that were the size of small trees ), and climbed up into the hot attic to get anything and everything Christmas related down. So for the time being, we only have a 1 car garage until I can go through it all and see what else I might want this year. The new plants we got for the front yard are really pretty. Although, I’m pretty sure anything would look better than the azaleas that were barely hanging on to the last bit of life they had left. It was sad. We still have a lot more to do in the yard. . . but I imagine it’ll always be that way.

So now I’m deciding when is an okay time to start putting up Christmas decorations. I’ve always thought the rule is to wait until after Thanksgiving, right? That just seems so far away though and sometimes I can be very unpatient. We’ll see how long I last. I will make a promise right now to at least not put up any Christmas lights. . . outside. I’ll only look overly excited about Christmas to anyone who comes inside!