so, about a month ago i went to the hallmark store and bought v.1 of the 2008 xmas cards. They were nice. they were expensive. i paid full price. i took them back.
then i went to target and bought xmas cards v.2. they were nice. they were not very expensive. i really liked them. i went to target today to order prints of our christmas tree hunting photo to attach to the sticky thing on the great v.2 xmas cards. Then i noticed that the cards were landscape format, and the pictures are portrait format. so ... i returned them.
then i went to buy 2008 xmas cards v. 3. Well, now it is so close to christmas that the selection was a little slim. I found one that i liked but there was only 1 box of 40 and i need 60. so i did the unthinkable ... i bought 2 different kinds of xmas cards! gasp!
when i got home i was excited to share the pictures with mark. i have never used to kodak picture kiosk thing and it is pretty cool. for an in store thing simple enough for everyone to use, it had some cool features. on thing was that you could add text to the photo, so i wrote "johnson family, xmas tree hunt, 2008". When i showed mark, he said "i wish you had written christmas, not xmas."
now, i agree that christmas looks much nicer than xmas, but xmas fit better. could he not have first said someting like "wow, what a great idea. If i had a vote, i would have ..."
anyway, enough on the xmas cards.
I am looking forward to sleeping in in the am. Ian and Keagan are having a sleepover @ GrammyDa's and Nate is tucked in for the night. We were supposed to go to chicago this weekend, but since i have been sick (with pneumonia), we decided to stay home so i am not sick for xmas.
tomorrow we are going to finish decorating, and then I don't know what we'll be up to for the rest of the day.
it is so nice sitting here working on my XMAS cards while sitting next to the perfect XMAS tree that we cut down ourselves last weekend.
PS - the facebook addiction continues. I think its so funny the people we will FB with. People we rarely spoke to when we saw them on a daily basis, ex-boyfriends, old friends, new friends, friends of friends, people we have lost touch with. It's pretty crazy how it brings people together.
12 years ago
I experienced the same agony over the perfect Christmas card in 1983. It continues to this day except for the agony part which I lost somewhere in the 90"s. One year I sent out a later version called the "Holy crap I forgot to address the cards" newsletter sent Jan 2. Now , I enjoy receiving cards (photo cards get poster on my fridge) but feel superior in that by not sending ; I'm greener than every one.
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