Mood:  crushed out

*yawns* I slept like not at all last night, and then I had to WORK today at a recruitment event. Sucks giving up a Saturday morning for work, even for something fun.

Now I am home, and my plan is to make the house festive for Christmas. Why would I be doing this before Thanksgiving? Well, Charles and I spend little time at our own house over the holidays - we basically run all over the state of Illinois visiting respective families - so if I don't put the tree up early, we hardly have a chance to enjoy it. My parents gave me their old tree this year, the one from when I was a kid, and ornaments my mom bought at the dollar store in Santa Rosa, CA, in 1969 when my dad was stationed out there with the army, which our antique and really cool (and sentimental), so I'm going to try to have fun decorating. The only problems: 1) I have to clean my house before I put up the tree, and 2) I always get homesick around the holidays, and this isn't gonna help!

Plus I've got this phobia about bringing my own decorations in from the garage. See, this summer Charles and I moved, but before we did, our cats - whom we no longer have, thank all the gods and the sweet people who gave them homes - got fleas. We fought a two-month battle against fleas. It was seriously the grossest thing I've ever endured. I get the creepy-crawlies just thinking about it! And even though I know we don't have pets now so the fleas (if they had survived) would have nothing to feed on, and even though I know we brought in our clothes and blankets and furniture and all that good stuff from the old house to the new house without introducing fleas into our environment, well, I've still got this paranoia that my Christmas decorations are flea-infested.

Yup, I've got issues.

But, anyway, I have a ton of stuff to accomplish this afternoon before I can crash and watch tv (I love to veg, I am becoming a tv-veg addict), so I'm signing off. And hopefully, will not be signing on again to discuss fleas...