Thing 1: Holiday cards should go out tomorrow, if not today. I’ve been working on them very slowly, which brings me to . . .
Thing 2: I had a stroke of brilliance for my potential thank you cards. Initially, I’d hoped to get them done when I had the holiday photos taken, but as I mentioned before there were some extenuating circumstances at the portrait studio that led to me not getting nearly the variety of shots I’d need for that. Which, you know, is a huge hardship for all of us because there is truly a shortage of adorable Yara photos and it is so very hard to rope Jean into taking yet more of them. (Or not.) So yes, be prepared for extra cuteness if you so happen to provide Yara and/or I with something worthy of thanks. ;)
Thing 3: I’m so entirely busy lately, and am appalled at the close proximity of Christmas because I have only just barely begun my holiday shopping. And by barely, I mean, not at all. The few gifts I do have in my possession — and have subsequently wrapped in festive paper — were not initially holiday gifts but rather things I picked up with said persons in mind . . . and then just never got around to gifting them with said thing. I’m truly pathetic. But I feel confident I can rectify this. Especially because of . . .
Thing 4: Building management informed me that today and Friday they will (finally) be working on my bathroom! This means that I am somewhat kicked out of my residence as (1.) the work will take two days and the glaze has to “sit” for 48 hours after it has been completed, and (2.) it smells really awful. As such, I plan to be avoiding home as much as possible, which means I have little excuse not to get to some stores and buy things to wrap in said festive paper.
Thing 5: Luckily, I’d already been planning to be away for the weekend visiting with Dad, Keith and Dolly. This Sunday we’re going to be at The Farmers’ Museum for their annual “Candlight Evening” which is always quite a treat and quite Christmas-y, especially since it almost always snores more out towards my father and that makes any holiday event feel more jolly. So, I’m rather excited for that.
Thing 6: (Or all the stuff that isn’t specifically holiday related, but very much worthy of mention.) Yara is thankfully back on Viokase for good now. After all my reading and reading and reading Goodreads tells me I have 105 more books in my to read shelf and in the last week I’ve received two separate packages that I’m pretty sure contain book presents which will add to this. (Need I mention yet again my own book-buying disease?) I’m now on my 47th consecutive day of writing (something) daily, well probably more than that, but I wasn’t really counting before. Yesterday, I found three separate Civil Service tests that I qualify to take that would, if a job ever materialized from them, be a rather substantial salary hike for me. *squee!*
Presents that are books…..what are you talking about :P Just because they are book shaped…lol
You know, when I was 13 I asked for Final Fantasy for the NES and I remember distinctly getting three separate presents that morning and going right for the one the size of a game cartridge and it not being in that. (I forget now what was in that.) Instead, my dad had put it inside this HUGE box, which I of course left until last to open resigned to the fact that I hadn’t gotten what I’d wanted.
So, yeah, been there. ;) But I’m still pretty damned sure there are books among these presents. I’m just saying.
Yeah, James and his family do that…a lot. Wrap things in boxes for other things…it makes things interesting! :)
My aunt is notorious for that. There were a few years when I’ve thought I’ve gotten random things like computer speakers, only to discover inside the box was something totally else. (Thankfully, I’m not th eonly one who has done that.)