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Thank you...I think.
Dec. 20th, 2011 07:46 pmSo yesterday in ICU I was buzzing around the room, doing my Nancy nurse thing; one of my co-workers (who is all of 24) said to me:
You're so cute! You have so much energy for someone so old......
Ummm. Thank you? I burst into laughter when she realized what she'd just said. I guess from the point of view of a 24 year old, 64 looks pretty ancient. LOL.
Anyway. I feel so much better now that I've accepted the fact that I'm really old..guess I have a good excuse for not wanting to rush around in shopping malls looking for gifts no one needs or wants. You can't expect me to brave all those crowds, I might injure someone with my walker. (I'm still giggling about that "complement").
I have actually managed to finish the little bit of shopping I had to do. Christmas is going to be pretty low key around here, because we're all just trying to keep our heads above water. That said, I do feel like I'm starting to get the Christmassy feeling. I bought the ingredients to make a carrot cake for the Christmas dinner dessert; I have a recipe for a really good one, so I decided to do a homemade dessert rather than buy something from a bakery. I'm doing the stuffing as well; Sue's making the turkey, but she likes my stuffing better than hers.
I have my tiny Christmas tree up, with the sparkly lights, and outside I have the Rosemary bush atwinkle with lights too. A wreath on the door, and holly on the railing..it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
I stopped in at WhiteDwarf to give Jill and Walter my card and gift (a day's labour when they need help next month: they're amalgamating the mystery store and the science fiction store into one building, so lots of book moving to be done). She gave me her homemade granola, which is totally yummy; I've been eating it dry because it's full of nuts and seeds and other good stuff and it's so good. I got a copy of Guy Gavriel Kay's book Tigana to give to Kelly, the young woman who works for us at the farm; she reads a lot of the same stuff I do, so I'm introducing her to Guy Kay, whose work I love. I've already turned her on to the Dresden Files; she's gone through almost the whole series, which I've been lending her. I like giving books as gifts; it reminds me of my youth, when my Aunt Helen used to give me a book for my birthday and for Christmas every year. It was like getting a ticket to new and exciting worlds.
Now that I'm caught up, I'm going to go dye my hair. Time to get rid of that tell tale gray!
You're so cute! You have so much energy for someone so old......
Ummm. Thank you? I burst into laughter when she realized what she'd just said. I guess from the point of view of a 24 year old, 64 looks pretty ancient. LOL.
Anyway. I feel so much better now that I've accepted the fact that I'm really old..guess I have a good excuse for not wanting to rush around in shopping malls looking for gifts no one needs or wants. You can't expect me to brave all those crowds, I might injure someone with my walker. (I'm still giggling about that "complement").
I have actually managed to finish the little bit of shopping I had to do. Christmas is going to be pretty low key around here, because we're all just trying to keep our heads above water. That said, I do feel like I'm starting to get the Christmassy feeling. I bought the ingredients to make a carrot cake for the Christmas dinner dessert; I have a recipe for a really good one, so I decided to do a homemade dessert rather than buy something from a bakery. I'm doing the stuffing as well; Sue's making the turkey, but she likes my stuffing better than hers.
I have my tiny Christmas tree up, with the sparkly lights, and outside I have the Rosemary bush atwinkle with lights too. A wreath on the door, and holly on the railing..it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
I stopped in at WhiteDwarf to give Jill and Walter my card and gift (a day's labour when they need help next month: they're amalgamating the mystery store and the science fiction store into one building, so lots of book moving to be done). She gave me her homemade granola, which is totally yummy; I've been eating it dry because it's full of nuts and seeds and other good stuff and it's so good. I got a copy of Guy Gavriel Kay's book Tigana to give to Kelly, the young woman who works for us at the farm; she reads a lot of the same stuff I do, so I'm introducing her to Guy Kay, whose work I love. I've already turned her on to the Dresden Files; she's gone through almost the whole series, which I've been lending her. I like giving books as gifts; it reminds me of my youth, when my Aunt Helen used to give me a book for my birthday and for Christmas every year. It was like getting a ticket to new and exciting worlds.
Now that I'm caught up, I'm going to go dye my hair. Time to get rid of that tell tale gray!
