Matthew has gone to his girlfriend's parent's home today, and will be going to a party at friends' on Boxing Day... but I get him all day Christmas Day. :o)
The tree is up... still has no lights on it... Matthew will be doing that when he gets home, while I'm preparing the turkey and vegetables for Christmas dinner... then we will decorate the tree together. There are wrapped gifts from me to Matthew sitting on the table waiting to go under the tree when it is finished, as well as a box of things from a few friends which will also go under the tree. I believe Matthew has his gifts for me down in the rec-room... likely not wrapped yet, but that's okay, I have no intention of going down those stairs anyway.
I have done absolutely NO baking at all... no goodie making at all (Christmas Candycane Bark, or Christmas Fluff Pies)... I have no energy or ambition to do any of it. I really don't have the energy or ambition to do the Christmas dinner either, but that HAS to be done, so I will do it.
Well, Matthew is supposed to be home in about an hour or so... so I want to finish up a couple of things (email checking, etc) before getting off the computer, so I will leave now and likely be back on Boxing Day since I'll be alone.
Oh by the way... my son called me on the phone last night (while he was out shopping) and was p*ssed off with me about some dorky thing that I had misunderstood him to say. He got me so ticked that I hung up on him.... he tried calling back right away, but I didn't feel like listening to anymore of it, so I didn't answer. A couple of hours later he called to let me know he was on the way home, and he apologized for his rant earlier.
I informed him this morning that since the doctor told me my blood pressure was high on Tuesday (oh yeah, I don't remember if I told everyone that... more fun with my health) and if it was still high after Christmas when he sees me, he will start me on medication to try to bring it down, I started doing searches on the Internet about it all. I already new most of what I read, but just wanted to verify that I wasn't in panic mode and thinking irrationally. So, I enlightened my darling son that high blood pressure is known as "the silent killer" because often people don't even realize that they have it... and that it is also "the number one cause of strokes" (both my parents had strokes... my Mom's was due to high blood pressure and overwork, my Dad's was due to stress about my Mom's stroke and he very likely had high blood pressure too), and that "it can also lead to congestive heart failure" (which my Dad had when he passed away a little over a year after his stroke).... and I told him "So, I would really like to NOT allow myself to become overly stressed, and would like to NOT have arguements or yelling matches like you pulled on me on the phone last night. I would like to try to remain as calm as I possibly can to see if I can get my blood pressure back down, as I would really rather NOT have a stroke as we've both seen what it can do to people, and I would really rather not end up with congestive heart failure either."
You should have seen his face... he was sitting there in kind of stunned silence. I also informed him that if he thought I was over-reacting, or dramatizing... that I copied and pasted a lot of the information from the pages I visited, and included the URLs so that he can look them up himself to see that I'm not BS-ing. He just said "Yeah, not getting stressed would be a good idea. I don't want to see those things happen either." Guess he loves me afterall... even if he does get lippy at times! LOL
Merry Christmas - Happy Hanukkah - Season's Greetings to all my friends. May this season be happy and peaceful for all of us!
*hugs* Gemini