One down....

[poliphilo]

Yesterday I...

(i) Took down the Christmas tree (yes, I know there are twelve Days of Christmas, but, frankly, I've had enough)

(ii) Took down last year's Harry Potter calendar and put up this year's calendars (three of them) with artwork by Picasso and Dali.

(iii) Watched the latest Poirot mystery starring David Suchet. (You'd think by now that Poirot would have worked out that by exposing the murderer in a room full of innocent bystanders you give him or her the heaven-sent opportunity to grab a hostage and cause considerable unpleasantness- Lord knows, it's happened often enough- but no, he, Poirot, keeps on setting up those theatrical denouements of his.)

One down. 364 to go.

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

It took me until December 28 to get the tree decorated and now Roy is eager for it to come down. Not so fast, please...

Actually, I'll probably start this evening.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Our tree went up on the 26th and is coming down today. (I have just brought the boxes in from the garage to pack away the decorations.)

I'm back in work tomorrow and there'll be no time in the week because I'm back to teaching evening classes. And though the 6th is Friday, after a week at work I will not want to be taking a tree down on Friday evening.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

And I've always wondered how detectives get away with private accusatory conversations with murderers--shouldn't they wait to have some witnesses?

BTW, I saw Stephen Spielberg's Munich yesterday--2 hours and 44 minutes within an assassin's mind. Spielberg is much too good--his murder scenes were dreadful.

I left the theater agitated and angry--and I took it out on the director, who was much too good at showing death throes--

And S has a habit of "telling, not showing" that irritates me--for example, when the protagonist begins to lose it, the music goes haywire, as if the record were off-center on the player.

[jenny_evergreen]

Ah, but Poirot is the one character for whom that behavior would be absolutely correct; he is, of course, supremely confident in his abilities, and anything that appears to contradict that is an error on someone else's part, naturally. :)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I aim to keep my tree up until Twelfth Night: a twelve day Christmas feels about right to me, I enjoy celebrating when you've finished the main fuss, and it's all optional.

But what I meant to ask was, re ii): do you deliberately have three calendars, or did they just happen? I have years when everyone gives me calendars (like last year, when I bought one myself and was given two), and years when no-one does (like this year: I shall be looking in the sales, maybe tomorrow).