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Normally I wouldn’t make a first post this late in the day, but I’m done with work and – oddly – not quite ready for dinner yet so I figured I’d kill some time here. No better way to kill time than with y’all! 
I live alone and no one ever comes to my house during the holidays (or any other time, really), but I still decorate. 
Everything goes out the day/weekend after Thanksgiving, and comes down no later than New Year’s Day – by which time I’m ready to regain the use of my kitchen table, and to generally have things back to “normal” for the start of the new year.
No family heirlooms, but each ornament is different and several have sentimental value. And I look forward to seeing my Swarovski snowflake collection for 4-6 weeks every year (I’m up to 15 snowflakes; I even have small spotlights on them in the evenings!). Most of my decorations are inside, but I do like having a big lighted wreath on the front door and some lights on the crepe myrtle out front. They’re always nice to see when I’ve been out and I come home after dark. This year I’ve added some holiday LEGO sets to the decor, and I recently ordered one more LEGO wreath because I decided that I want one on either side of the kitchen window. After that arrives and has been assembled I might post some photos.
Yesterday’s lunch and show with my friend were both great. A funny thing happened during intermission: my friend and I were standing up and she went to remove her (large) purse from under her seat, and had to tug on it a little, and the corner of it hit the edge of her seat – the part that folds up and down – just right/wrong and suddenly the seat bottom was on the floor! We and everyone around us were momentarily stunned! I picked it up (it was surprisingly heavy) and looked at it, because we hadn’t heard anything fall – like metal that might have broken/come loose, or anything – and after a few seconds of looking at both the piece and the seat frame I realized there were grooves the piece had been knocked out of and it would just slide back into place. And I fixed it! Some of the folks around us were impressed. My friend and I were both quite relieved, because we were starting to have visions of needing to call an usher and have a maintenance person come over, etc. The venue wasn’t sold out, but it was pretty full: after the seat was fixed, I realized that they might have needed to move us to the first or second row…I offered to break it again, but my friend said no thanks. 
Bailey is not-so-patiently waiting to go outside, so a few replies and then it will be time to relocate to the living room…
Yes, I meant to reply to that!! 
I’d heard of it previously, but definitely appreciated the reminder. Unfortunately, neither of the local shows works for me this year.
I want the people in that house to adopt me.
Good luck! 
That sounds so cool! I have a couple of ukulele-playing friends. 
Break a leg on Thursday! 
We did that in my house! The manger pieces would appeared a week at a time (or something), with a heralding angel ornament my parents found and hung at the apex always being the first, and with Jesus on Christmas morning and the “Happy Birthday” singing and all.