Christmas Memories!

Well, it is almost Christmas again!  Where did this year go?  I vowed that I would make this a joyous Christmas, although last year that is not what I was thinking.  And wouldn't you know that something happened the other day that brought back really bad memories of an episode that happened one Christmas when I lived with "Satan"!  Satan was an ex-roommate that went pyscho on me and almost killed me in my own kitchen a couple of months after Christmas.  I should have seen the precursor of violence that Christmas and even all the way back to summer.  Things had happened that should have cued me in to that behavior that was building in this subhuman individual. 

Satan and I had gone all out that year, buying a beautiful live tree and all the trimmings.  We both worked as home health nurses.  I came home one afternoon to see the tree had already been put up and decorated.  Of course, I was a little disappointed that I wasn't involved in the decorating and voiced my opinion about it, diplomatically, I thought.  Satan went into a rage and took the tree out the back door, threw it across the yard, breaking many ornaments and tree limbs.  I was so appalled at that behavior and, of course, later he was all apologetic.  He even brought the tree back in and tried to re-do it, but it was not the same.   Nothing was that year; I seemed to have bad luck every time I turned around.  I was being isolated from my own family, slowly and methodically, and I was not even aware of it.  The next February, the whole volatile situation would come to a head!  That is a whole other traumatic story!

Now that we are all good and bummed out, it is off to do my care giving work at my mom's!  Thank God for that yard!  It is my sanctuary and, even now that it is almost wintertime, is the most beautiful place to be!