Oh those poor Salvation Army bell ringers...latest scoop was that somewhere in the US 2 guys, one got the bell ringer to help move his stalled car, the other ran off with the Salvation Army kettle! Your kettle ringer got off easy I say.

I am finding things that lift the depression enough. Chinese restaurants deliever...not many people from China celebrate Christmas...and they deliver.

I've started the house work (taking out the cat litter and trash first, I took Perna's advice on that one (thanks Perna!) to do the worst thing first because the mood won't get any worse.

My favorite movie is on this weekend "The Sound of Music" so all you others out there who had dad abandonment issues, this one's for you too.

Oh and Omers, on your son, he knows you as well as you know him and with the Christmas presents and probably the fear of having to clean up the livingroom, he's acting like an angel...just in time for Christmas. You have a Christmas angel. Don't you wish everyday were Christmas.

So my mood is starting to pick up...thanks in a large part to figuring out what was depressing me in the first place and the rest with the help of you fine folks on here.

So I reading and taking your advice and checking my list twice or however that song goes.

Yes, I had my holiday already...I'm like your Jewish Catholic Friend. Might even take a stroll and look at the Christmas lights tonight. One time on Christmas PBS showed both "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Yentl" on tv and that was a nice treat that year.

I think I have the energy to go to the far away store believe it or not! Gotta get back for my online meeting tonight so I can look forward to that as well. Once the trash and litter was out, I just really have sweeping and dishes to do. The benefit of living in a small apartment.

Hope I can keep the depression lift going.