I thought when I got married that I would somehow magically transform into a domestic goddess, or that I would at least learn to manage my time better. I also thought I would have smashing holiday decorations.
Obviously, things did not go that way. But! It is only December 5, and I already have my tree up AND decorations on my balcony. Admittedly, I also have the decoration tubs still sitting next to my tree. The storage closet is so full and messy I am afraid to try to return them. This is possibly our last winter in Florida, as my husband will hopefully have successfully defended his thesis by this time next year, and I will thus be married to a doctor. With that in mind, I have goals for this holiday season!
1. Clean out the storage closet.
This closet is stuffed with junk. We used to use it as a time-out closet for Alfie, and then it sort evolved into a dog-sized chokey, but now there is so much crap in there even his little 25 lb. body won’t fit. Things in this closet include my wedding dress, all of Ira’s blazers (which he never ever wears), a Rubbermaid bin full of Ira’s undergraduate papers, a Rubbermaid bin full of clothes that I swear I am going to lose 25 pounds and then I can wear them again!, a ton of scrap fabric, wrapping paper, wedding gifts (including an hors d’oeuvres warming tray?), and our iron (hopefully. I haven’t seen it in a long time). I am totally going to clean it out and take all of it to Goodwill.
2. Make some Christmas tree ornaments.
After pinning my brains out on Pinterest, I finally set a them for our Christmas tree: colors! No white or beige ornaments this year. Just my glittery ball ornaments and some vintage wooden ornaments went on the tree this year. It’s vintage if it is super old and falling apart and even your mom didn’t want it in her house anymore, right?
Anyway, this means the tree is looking a little sparse, so I am going to make some new ornaments. Like this. Or this. Or this.
3. Make paper snowflakes.
I recieved my undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh; we were a medium sized school, so the University could afford to give undergrads an allotted number of “free” printed pages each year. In the computer lab, you printed to a centralized, staff-accessible printer, and then the “staff” (work study students forced to wear university-branded polos) would put these pages plus a colorful coversheet out in order of your computer username (printed boldly on the coversheet) on a giant table, and then you and ten other people would swoop in to grab your printed pages. Coversheet colors corresponded to days of the week, so the computer lab would know if you left your printouts unclaimed for a week.
This long explanation is so that you know why I had a glut of one-side printed rainbow-colored paper as an undergrad. I used these stacks of dirty pages to craft paper chains and tens of paper snowflakes, and instead of studying I would decorate the common area of wherever I was living. Then I would be too lazy to clean them up until spring.
I would like to make paper decorations again.
4. Throw a milk and cookies party
And by milk I obviously mean White Russians.
PS Do you want to 
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yeah, it’s december 14, and i STILL don’t have my tree up!
doesn’t feel like Christmas without it….