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paradox3 said:
This one fits a low table. It is still a good size. Maybe 4 ft tall.

My daughter bought a tall narrow tree to fit in a smallish corner. Another good solution if you are short on space.
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Those narrow trees are very interesting. I was considering one, but then thought all my ornaments may not fit onto it!
 
Last year we downsized from a seven foot, floor to ceiling tree to a five foot one - same shape but proportionately smaller. Seelerman was finding the larger tree too big and heavy to get up from the basement and set up. This one will likely see us out. And it fits nicely in the corner of our livingroom without too much rearranging of furniture.

I love my ornaments - most have a special meaning to me. And most will go on the smaller tree.
 
We still have a real tree, which is currently up & awaiting lights. YoungestSon is sound asleep on couch. May get him to put on lights, and then help decorate later.
 
@Pinga sorry to read about your friend - it's always a shock. She sounded uber cool.

@Tabitha I'm glad your son is home. I really like the "tune-up" phrasing that is used. It's more less shame inducing than "relapse" or similar terminology. My new psychiatrist is adamant that long-term hospitalization does more harm than good. She's an interesting sort. If that's the case then we need more money for day hospitals and similar programs. I am so thankful that CMHA got involved in my life - they saved me, big time (I end my relationship with them in three weeks which is scary). I hope he can stay out of hospital for the holidays. For me the hospital is a place to keep me safe and decrease the stimulation of the "outside world". I was also glad to see that you have sporadic contact with your other child.

I can't remember who was talking about exercises for COPD...a young woman with asthma is the grandaughter of my Mom's friend. She is an aspiring swimmer - is doing extremely well for her age but her asthma/breathing were holding her back so she started singing lessons - turns out she has an incredible singing voice so is now accomplished in both disciplines (the singing has done marvellous things for her breathing). My Aunt (by marriage) has COPD but exercises have really helped her as well.

As for me - last week was rough so I took myself to the hospital and got straightened out still struggling a bit but starting to feel better but now the dreaded cold has hit. Ick. I was very pleased with the treatement I got in the hospital - I was treated with compassion, concern and like a human who mattered - I was so grateful. We did get our tree up and a lot of tidying - We are hosting 15 for brunch on the 23rd. I've already warned them that it will be just simple - it's about the people!

@Seeler you talk about people forgetting Eastern Canada - well, so many of us want to be in Eastern Canada but cannot!
 
My neighbours across the street are my snow angels today. I had slipped out early-in my fleece pjs to grab something from the car.
I always shovel my stairs as I go down.
When I went out for church my whole walkway was done! Kids and their dad and mom.

I often go and shovel with them-once we did the whole neighbourhood-but today it was just their driveway and my sidewalk.
 
Justme said:
My new psychiatrist is adamant that long-term hospitalization does more harm than good. She's an interesting sort. If that's the case then we need more money for day hospitals and similar programs.
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We are starting to realize this even with physical illnesses and yet home care and other alternatives remain chronically underfunded. Governments keep throwing money at acute care with only lip service being paid to less expensive options more suited to chronic care. There really needs to be a wholesale overhaul of how health care of all forms, mental and physical, are being delivered but I don't see any political will to do so. As long as they can create the illusion of doing something while really just shuffling paper and money, governments seem to get a pass on healthcare from the voters.
 
I agree with you on that. No point in keeping people in a hospital if they don't really need to be there. Equally true that there is no point in sending them home without needed supports and safety nets. Heard of an 80 year old sent home to an empty house following hip replacement. Unable to get around, nothing convenient to eat, couldn't get to the bathroom...........upshot - back to the hospital the next day with a broken hip and wrist.
 
Ugh, lots to do this week. This morning I got a text from my sister, she was going to be at an indoor playground in my neighbourhood. On the drive, my nephew was asking More Auntie? I guess he has associated being on the highway with seeing me. So guess where I ended up? Haha luckily I got there in time for snacks/lunch so a perfect time to see the kids without wearing myself out before I ran around picking up a few things.
 
Aye, I wrote a two-page letter today to a long-neglected ancient auntie that side-stepped the question of "why do we delay our attempts at love?"...
 
Oh, believe me, I would rather spend time with them over most adulting tasks. My sister wasn't expecting me to come, otherwise she would have said something the night before. As it was I had trouble getting their attention, they stamp matching numbers on kids/adults so everyone leaves with the people they belong to. They just let me in without a stamp.
 
Both trees are up. Almost all decorated, need to do the balls on one still, since most go to the bottom I was waiting for Chemguy to lay out the tree skirt nicely first, it wasn't dug out when we connected the tree together. Will do that still tonight.
I got the only gluten free dish I'm making this year done, needs to be cooled and frozen.
I do want to get cookies made to take to in-laws too. At least the house feels like Christmas although there's also a bunch of boxes still laying around.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Aye, I wrote a two-page letter today to a long-neglected ancient auntie that side-stepped the question of "why do we delay our attempts at love?"...
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Love making is considered unstrong .. thus passed over to the genteel folk below the horizon ... thus dipping and Duncan is far misunderstood regarding adepts ... all sealed in the Kahn ... or Jaer'd. Must be restricted to maintain levels of hate required for industry of assertion ... war in the polity ends ... disturbs my donkey too!
 
ChemGal said:
Oh, believe me, I would rather spend time with them over most adulting tasks. My sister wasn't expecting me to come, otherwise she would have said something the night before. As it was I had trouble getting their attention, they stamp matching numbers on kids/adults so everyone leaves with the people they belong to. They just let me in without a stamp.
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Yes then explain adult e' ration ... a screwed over word?
 
I haven't located the stockings or tree skirt yet. Younger son's move in was quicker than we planned so his stuff is still scattered in basement. That's where I think tree skirt and stockings are.
 
Things you don't like to see in the morning: an ambulance in front of your neighbour's house. It's the elderly couple I mentioned before whose adult son helps us with snow-clearing. The husband is on chemo for colon cancer and has been hospitalized once already this fall so an ambulance at their place can't possibly be good news.
 
Mendalla said:
Things you don't like to see in the morning: an ambulance in front of your neighbour's house. It's the elderly couple I mentioned before whose adult son helps us with snow-clearing. The husband is on chemo for colon cancer and has been hospitalized once already this fall so an ambulance at their place can't possibly be good news.
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Or that face in the mire given what folks believe about Thou's elves ... our own worst enemy?
 
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