That is a strange word - panic. When you add an "ed", you have to add a k. I wonder why?
Hmmm... Not even what I starteed out to write, either. Just noticed it as I typed it. Maybe it's my ADD coming out again...
Well, I DO feel just a bit better today. The lid to my crock pot came in yesterday, so I can make slow cooker meals again.
I have decided to take Friday off from work, because I need the mental health day to finish cleaning, and wrap prezzies for folks. We have to go and do prezzies with my friends Carol and Richard on Friday night. They are into the season. The Christmas card they sent shows them standing next to the Antique Tow Truck they bought, and it is all decked out in Christmas Lights. The heading on the card- "The White House Has Their Decorations, we have ours.", and on the back, it says "I'm Dreaming of a White Trash Christmas!"
To truly understand the above, you kind of have to know Carol and Richard. They are some of the most unique friends I have. She's an attorney, he is a biker. Her nickname in law school was "Big Bird" (she is 6 feet tall, and relatively slim, and resembled big bird then, I guess), and she refers to him as her "Chewbacca Lookin M--- F---" boyfriend. They live together with their 4 cats, quite happily, albeit weirdly.
Anyway, I did not start off to write about Carol, either. I digress.
I got some garland strung on the tree last night, and even hung a few ornaments. I did not even think about Finance, and played games on Pogo for an hour, then went to bed early.
I needed the sleep. Slept till 6 this morning, and took one of the best showers of my life. It was warm, and it felt SOOOO GOOD!!
So today, knowing I will get through this, somehow, I will try to be calm, and will do my thing, and go to my PMI meeting tonight, and will go home and hope the cats have not strangled themselves in the garland, and tomorrow night, we will do more decorating, and we will get this done.
I will clean a lot on Friday, and over the weekend, and it will all get done. We will have a house that looks like civilized people live in it for Christmas, and for the cat sitter to come over New Years. I am drafting a letter to the school requesting an extension on my Finance course. I will focus after I get back from the holidays. Yes, I will bring the book with me to the beach, but I will also not spend each waking moment working on it.
Thanks,
1wildheart for the comment on my last post about the fact that maybe I will hear something after New Year's on the jobs. I sure hope you are right, but right then, the comment was just what I needed to kind of "snap out of" my panic.
So, Merry Week Before Christmas, folks! I wish you joy, blessings, and short lines at the check-out if you haven't finished your shopping yet.
I need to go get nylons and coffee. My hose ran all the way down the leg this morning. Sucks. They can put a man on the moon, why can they not invent nylons that don't run at least by the third or fourth time you wear them?
More later. After coffee... I hear a Starbuck's skim light whip Gingerbread Latte with a double shot calling me.... Comfort food, to be sure!