Christmas decorating

[silver_chipmunk]

I slept very late today, after 1:00. Then I finally got up and had breakfast and coffee.

mashfanficchick went to Ohio to see Dani and family for Hanukkah but ze texted me the addresses of two more friends I want to send cards, plus I got an email from Frank with his and Maureen's address so I made out those three cards and have them ready to mail.

I also made an appointment with Quest for my blood tests, which is on Friday.

Then I put some Christmas music on Pandora on the computer, poured a glass of eggnog, and got the Christmas tree out from behind the TV and assembled it and set it up.

I also got the three bins of decorations out from the corner where they live, and I started decorating the apartment.

The tree has the lights and garlands on it, nothing more yet. I will start putting some decorations on it later, but I may wait til mashfanficchick gets back to finish. But there won't be a lot of time at that point so... we'll see. I won't do everything in one day, no matter what, it's just too depressing alone. Oldest Brother and I used to decorate my tree, and we had a lot of fun doing it. I miss him so much.

Anyway, aside from the tree I got the banner on the door outside, and the garland and lights on the living room entryway. And I put up some other stuff in the living room, including the stockings.

After I was done with all that I had another glass of eggnog, and it was almost time to Team the FWiB.

We talked for about an hour and a half, and then I had dinner.

After dinner I went to the bedroom and contacted the Kid who finally gave me the information I needed about the beer brewing thing for her boyfriend. So I called mashfanficchick for a brief discussion of that, and then ordered the thing.

By the time I finished the order it was pet feeding time so I fed the pets, and started here.

I have been reminded that today is the 45th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon. I remember it so clearly. I was in college, waking with my boyfriend to the bar, when someone passed us going in the opposite direction and called out that John Lennon had been shot. We turned around and went back to my dorm, which had a TV, and listened. We heard Howard Cossell announce he was dead. Then we went down to the bar and all that was playing on the jukebox were Beetles songs. I'll never forget.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Got the tree up at least and some decorations.

3. Eggnog.

4. Quest appointment was easy to make.

5. The thing for the Kid's boyfriend is ordered.

6. The life of John Lennon.

Comments

[morrigan716]

I was 7 years old when John Lennon died, and even though I listened to The Beatles then, I don't remember hearing about it at the time. It was maybe 2 years later that I was listening to a record, I think it must have been "Instant Karma", when my mom told me that someone had shot John Lennon a while ago, and I was sad.

[silver_chipmunk]

For people my age and older it was really devastating. My mother for years, when it was time to order Christmas poinsettias for church, would always order one in his memory.

[morrigan716]

I can imagine. If I had been older and able to understand, I would have probably felt the same. On my second trip to NYC, about 2017, one of the first things I wanted to do was see the Dakota and the memorial in Central Park.

[silver_chipmunk]

Yeah I know how you feel. I was alive when Kennedy was shot, but only 18 months or so old, so obviously I have no memory of it. But hearing other people's feelings and experiences of that day make me feel very sad and wanting to be closer.