{"id":953,"date":"2010-12-14T17:24:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/?p=953"},"modified":"2010-12-14T17:38:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T16:38:05","slug":"seasonal-craziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/seasonal-craziness\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal Craziness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have issues!! Seriously Christmas brings out the crazy in me in the form of OCD and boy have I got it bad!!<\/p>\n

For years the Christmas season starts for me in a flurry of decorating, the tree, the windows, the fire place….\u00c2\u00a0 but do I share a tender moment with my devoted son while we choose whether to have the angel or the star atop of the tree this year?<\/p>\n

NO BECAUSE HE’D DO IT ALL WRONG!!<\/p>\n

I have to decorate in certain way, in a certain order, lights, then ribbon (NOT TINSEL) the fir cones, then the baubles. If anything, in my mind, is out of place it drives me insane, It has in previous years taken me a a whole day just to put up a tree, but even better THEN and only then can the star or angel be put on top\u00c2\u00a0 – and this has to be chosen last of all and sometimes not until the day AFTER putting the tree and the rest of the decorations up because once chosen it has to stay there – no swapping and changing AT ALL so this is an important choice!<\/p>\n

The colours have to be evenly spread and JUST SO and the fireplace swag has to match the tree and be decorated in the same order at the same\u00c2\u00a0 no compromise – as an example of how bad this is when we unpacked and erected the tree this year I couldn’t decorate it!! We’d managed to leave the swag in the loft and I just couldn’t put anything on the tree until this was down too!!\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily for me James is very understanding of the crazy and went back up to hunt for it as I could feel myself become quite silly about it!!<\/p>\n

Last year was the first year I introduced colour to my tree in the form of bronze and red to go with the well established gold and ivory theme I’ve had going for years in an attempt for make myself loosen up a bit – I’m insane!<\/p>\n

All this causes much mirth and derision particularly from my not so understanding sister and much exasperation and frustration from myself. <\/strong><\/p>\n

BUT IF You think that’s bad I used to be worse, much worse, for instance (and\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve worked hard at getting over this one because it was ridiculous as I would hunt for days to get this right), the gifts used to have to colour coordinated – the adult presents would be gold or ivory paper with red ribbon and the children’s red with gold or ivory ribbon and wrapped just so….<\/p>\n

Notable insane moments:<\/p>\n