Meet and knit, Slept through it

The cleaning crew was at my place yesterday. They always take the time to do little decorations here and there. A lot of times they do it with tissues, making little cool designs. Yesterday they targeted the paper towels instead. It’s a simple thing they do but I always appreciate it.

Last night I attended my first HOA meeting. It was held at the home of the current president. Ironically his wife was the realtor for the sellers of the house I bought. They already had their beautiful home decorated for Christmas, it was very nice. I knew about a third of the 15 or so people present. I was the only single home owner present as far as I could tell. The topics covered were rather mundane as you would expect. The funniest thing I got out of it was the one woman who knitted during the majority of the meeting. It felt a bit surreal. I spoke only a little bit, introducing myself to the group. I’ll try to attend these in the future but if I miss one I won’t be upset.

I got home from the meeting in time for the Eagles/Chiefs game. The first half was pretty ugly, the defense was getting run over and Jalen was getting constant pressure from the Chiefs defense. Even after the Eagles scored their second TD in the 3rd quarter I thought it was a lost cause, so much so that I fell asleep. When I checked the score this morning and saw the Birds actually shut the Chiefs out in the second half and scored another TD to win the game I was very, very surprised. Too bad I didn’t get to see it. Beating the Chiefs on the road is a big deal. The schedule doesn’t get any easier from here on out. The team is going to be tested by fire in a very large way.

Tonight I am considering going to Home Depot to get a couple Xmas things for both the tree and the front of the house. When I moved I threw out EVERYTHING except the tree decorations. I plan to get rid of a bunch of them as well when I open the box. Up until now I have kept every decoration I ever had more or less including those that were part of prior relationships. I feel like I am ready to dispose of those just like everything else that no longer serves me. In the past day or so my mindset has flipped more to the dark side, not exactly a great mix with supposedly festive holiday preparations on the schedule.

I am off tomorrow which will give me time to prep for my flight to Texas Thanksgiving morning as well as dropping off Elsa to Ali and Shuggs where she will have a great visit. I might try to put the new Xmas tree up before I leave for Texas so it’s done when I get back on Sunday. This is going to be one humdinger of a holiday season. Yes that is dripping with sarcasm.