To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.

Cheery_Daff

Well done for recognising your motives in time! :T Good on you It may well be tht you go back and get it in a few weeks, but if the motives weren't right, they weren't right Hope you enjoyed your evening xxx

MrsMoo2U

Thank you both. Cheery, truthfully I fully knew what my motives were from the outset. The reason I posted that I was going to buy it was because I thought that if I said so publicly then I would have to follow through with it. Stupid, childish, but yes I stopped myself in time.

KC...... you said something over on MGs thread in response to a throw away remark that I made that brought me to tears (in a good way)

Cheri "No courage you see, I am like the lion in Oz."

KC "You make some really good points, MrsMoo. And you forget that the lion in Oz proved that he *did* have a heart, he just didn't have the confidence in it!"

:A :kisses3:

So today I am battling with my childish tantrum of deciding not to do what I do every year on the last Sunday before Christmas and that is to decorate the house. I even did this 6 weeks after my ex walked out on me but that was stubborness to prove that I would enjoy it no matter what. I am sure that if I just get on and do it then my mood will lift. I usually love Christmas so much but this year I really feel like the Grinch.

Pippilongstocking

Have a hug (()) I hope we both find our xmas spirit!
xxxx

MrsMoo2U

You will Pippi, I have faith. I am sure it will catch up with me. I am having a Christmas Lunch with a colleague tomorrow. The two of us work the same patch on different jobs so we understand each others issues and apart from that I love her to bits she is a gorgeous person. So hopefully tomorrow will do it for me.

Cheery_Daff

Hopefully Mrs Moo, sounds like you're in for a treat tomorrow. Get some carols on and just do a little bit! I'm sure you will indeed feel much better with a few decorations up!

In fact, I'm going to put some shoes on myself and head into the cellar and have a good rummage round to find the tree - and if I can't find it, then I'll find us a mystic branch from the garden instead :T :T :T

MrsMoo2U

I have cleaned the living room to within an inch of its life (we wont mention the mess in the bedroom where everything has migrated to), I have rearranged the furniture and I havebeen in the attic to fetch the decorations down. They are now in boxes on the floor and I am sitting eating rice, typing on here and looking at them building up to the next instalment. If I just get the tree up tonight its a start right?
This is the first year that I havent bought any new decorations too! Well that is a bit MSE?

niccatw

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Replace decorations for presents MrsMoo and I can just copy and paste your post for my diary!

If it makes you feel any better, I have only once put up the tiniest tree in 5 Christamses in my flat. I tell people it's for storage reasons the rest of the year as they tend to get upset about it! But really, I can't be bothered. I'm mostly out and about working when I am here and no-one usually visits and I'm if I'm not working at Christmas, then I'm a copule of hours away from here. So I just don't bother. Too much clutter.

Ba humbug

(Uhm, those of you thinking I really am ba humbug, I'm not. I don't mind Christmas. I just don't do decorations.)

MrsMoo2U

Good for you Nic, knowing what you want and getting on with it. Nothing at all wrong with not decorating. That said my tree is now up....... Yay! I also have my large Santa Claus out and he is standing beneath the tree. I think that the garland for the stairs and the other bits can wait until tomorrow night. I cant believe that I am back in work tomorrow after a week off and I still havent done anything.
I do normally love Christmas I am usually the one driving everybody potty in the office. As I no longer work in an office I dont have the people to bother so much. Oh well. I am looking forward to a Christmas lunch tomorrow with my colleague that will be nice. And it is in the nice vegetarian restaurant in town that I met Cheery in for tea. Lovely place, lovely food. Not very MSE but hey its the only Christmas work party I have had in 3 years.

MatyMoo

Enjoy your lunch tomorrow Mrs Moo

I am not vegetarian but eat a lot of vegetarian meals (I don't enjoy cooking meat just for me). Over the years I have been to a couple of fantastic vegetarian restaurants, one in Edinburgh and the other in Cambridge, superb food. But trying to get my carnivorous OH in to one is an impossibility! He did agree to come to a friends for dinner, knowing she was a vegetarian, if I promised we could stop and Burger King on the way home if he was still hungry. She did a fab cashew nut roast dinner and he asked for seconds!

After almost 30 years of cooking for him at least twice a week he will now eat meat free pasta or pizza dinners!

MrsMoo2U

I have only been fully vegetarian or rather officially for 7 years. I did used to eat lots of vegetarian food without actually realising it. Although I had strived to be a full vegetarian for many years my ex OH was a full on carnivore so it was easier to just eat meat. I used to only eat chicken and fish towards the end of the relationship so as you say when I was on my own it was easier (and cheaper) to eat veggie. I cook for friends ( I do still do meat dishes for them) and they always love my veggie recipes. I have a really nice Delia Parsnip Roulade recipe that I usually do at Christmas and it is often requested by my meat eating friends when they come to dinner.