Our Christmas…..

 Christmas Eve started with a whimper. It was below freezing and pipes were bursting throughout our building. These are sprinkler pipes that lead to our balconies so in the direct cold and wind. We run our dryer because the vent comes out next to the sprinkler and we figure that the warm air has to be better than below freezing wind. Anyway, when they burst the pressure is off in the pipes so the fire alarms go off until the fire department can get here, fix the pipe, which by then has flooded the apartment it belongs too and if it’s the 2nd floor then likely the shop it’s over and that means at least an hour straight of this god awful screeching noise that feels like prisoner of war tourture.

That happened ELEVEN times between Friday night/ Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon. We were TIRED. 

But! We had tickets to go see Avatar so we rallied and got bundled up then walked into the parking garage to see that when my husband had come down a few minutes earlier to start the truck to warm it up, something caused all the oil in the truck to drain out onto the ground. 

We decided to put it into the box until Tuesday. 

Dinner was going to be here on the Island Christmas Eve night anyway so no driving needed. Christmas Day the YM was coming down and she has my car so we could carry out our Christmas plans so I got our movie ticket money back, we will be renting a car this week so we can still go to the Christmas village by Hallmark, to see the movie and out to dinner again and the truck was towed to the shop. 

The anxious depressed me didn’t even show up! I’ve spent a lot of time working hard on my reactions to stress this passed 18 months and I’d say that it was tested and I passed!

I decided against a dress on Christmas Eve because we were walking to the Cheesecake Factory in arctic weather and a dress seemed a little underdressed! So, I wore cranberry colored flannel lined leggings, a cranberry t-shirt, a blue/yellow/cranberry flannel shirt ( So Soft) and my dark brown teddy bear coat. Oh, black Ugg’s and a dark brown teddy bear bucket hat. I was CUTE! 

We came home and made three dozen cookies. It was actually a great day!!

I’ll do Christmas next post!

Love, me