Today I became “that” person.  I did something that I make fun of other people for doing…today I decorated my house for Christmas before Thanksgiving.

Why did I become “that” person?  It all started with me asking Dillon to get the Christmas decorations and tree down from the shelves in the garage so that I could work on them a little bit as I have time.  However, my obsessive compulsive personality took over.  I looked at the calendar and realized that I have things going on all next weekend.  Then Dillon and I leave to go to my parents prior to going to North Dakota with Bill.  That meant that I wouldn’t have time to decorate until December. I thought “I’ll just start with getting the tree out of the box and making sure that the lights all work”.  Starting with the tree turned into decorating the tree.  Decorating the tree turned into a trip to Wal-Mart for additional ribbons to put on the tree.  The trip to Wal-Mart turned into a craft project.  I decided to use ribbon from my purchase to make additional decorations for the garland that goes around the TV stand.  My craft project then turned into looking for something in the box with the Christmas village.  Then my adult ADD took over and I HAD to set up the Christmas village, abandoning my craft project in the process.  Once the Christmas village was up, I realized that my snowmen were still in a box.  Of course, that wouldn’t do.  So I had to put out the snowmen.  That’s when I noticed that I hadn’t finished my craft project, so of course back to finish that.  Before I knew it, five hours had passed.

These were five hours where I was happy.  Five hours where I felt normal.  Five hours where I didn’t once think about anything other than decorating my house for Christmas.  Five successful hours.  I will take that and I will cherish it.  I would decorate everyday if it meant five normal hours.

This battle will be won with a series of small victories.  Today that victory came because I was “that” person.