I fail at December.
My secret santa swap is not ready, let alone ready to ship, and my pkg for
comic_day is in the same situation. If I can't get those ready to go, how will I ever get my gifts made and ready to ship for out-of-town friends and family??? November zoomed past and now December is flying by just as quickly and I'm working more hours than before so I'm hardly home long enough to eat dinner, read a few short chapters and fall asleep. I don't even have time to leave for lunch anymore.
I'm determined to get those two gifts finished and ready to ship by Monday, but I think I'd better apologize in advance to all friends and family to whom I usually mail holiday packages. Because they just may not get there until New Year's. It's my fault, I'm disorganized and unprepared and just plain not good at doing things in a timely fashion. I'm going to have to reduce the number of hand knit and sewn gifts from what I'd originally planned and probably increase the number of food/beverage gifts. I had originally planned to take a few days off this week to get my s*** together, but there will be no time off this month other than the days we are closed, which is weekends and 12/24-25. So That's that.
Finally the company holiday dinner is tonight, it's semi-formal, I have no idea what I'm going to wear. I have two formal dresses I bought at the thrift store prior to PR which may fit now, but seem way too "prom-y" for the occasion. The gold one's not bad but the seam is coming out in the back and it's too long and I have no jewelry or shoes to go with it. The red one is REALLY formal, with a full skirt, built-in petticoat and all. Not the easiest to sit and enjoy your dinner in. I do have shoes that match it. I have no wrap to wear with either, and I have no time to make anything, and I really need a wrap to cover my ghostly white fat flabby rubenesque arms. Top that off with the fact that I desperately need to do laundry and have almost no clothing clean at all, even if I did have something appropriate, which I don't. This guy at work just said, "just wear what you wore last year or a couple of years ago". Um. Dolt. I have lost 70 pounds in the last 4 years, 30 of which has been lost since last year's holiday dinner. Not only would they be way too big, but I got rid of them for that very reason! And of course my hair has been growing out and isn't really very stylable at the moment. I may use the rest of the red dye from Phebe's halloween costume on it when I get home just to do SOMETHING with it. Then again, the last thing I want to do is draw attention to it. It wouldn't be a big deal except my new manager told me he wants to make an announcement about me tonight, which means people will be looking at me and making me more embarrassed and awkward than usual.
A cocktail of Absolut and Prozac sounds really good right now. *cries with frustration*
comic_day is in the same situation. If I can't get those ready to go, how will I ever get my gifts made and ready to ship for out-of-town friends and family??? November zoomed past and now December is flying by just as quickly and I'm working more hours than before so I'm hardly home long enough to eat dinner, read a few short chapters and fall asleep. I don't even have time to leave for lunch anymore.
I'm determined to get those two gifts finished and ready to ship by Monday, but I think I'd better apologize in advance to all friends and family to whom I usually mail holiday packages. Because they just may not get there until New Year's. It's my fault, I'm disorganized and unprepared and just plain not good at doing things in a timely fashion. I'm going to have to reduce the number of hand knit and sewn gifts from what I'd originally planned and probably increase the number of food/beverage gifts. I had originally planned to take a few days off this week to get my s*** together, but there will be no time off this month other than the days we are closed, which is weekends and 12/24-25. So That's that.
Finally the company holiday dinner is tonight, it's semi-formal, I have no idea what I'm going to wear. I have two formal dresses I bought at the thrift store prior to PR which may fit now, but seem way too "prom-y" for the occasion. The gold one's not bad but the seam is coming out in the back and it's too long and I have no jewelry or shoes to go with it. The red one is REALLY formal, with a full skirt, built-in petticoat and all. Not the easiest to sit and enjoy your dinner in. I do have shoes that match it. I have no wrap to wear with either, and I have no time to make anything, and I really need a wrap to cover my ghostly white fat flabby rubenesque arms. Top that off with the fact that I desperately need to do laundry and have almost no clothing clean at all, even if I did have something appropriate, which I don't. This guy at work just said, "just wear what you wore last year or a couple of years ago". Um. Dolt. I have lost 70 pounds in the last 4 years, 30 of which has been lost since last year's holiday dinner. Not only would they be way too big, but I got rid of them for that very reason! And of course my hair has been growing out and isn't really very stylable at the moment. I may use the rest of the red dye from Phebe's halloween costume on it when I get home just to do SOMETHING with it. Then again, the last thing I want to do is draw attention to it. It wouldn't be a big deal except my new manager told me he wants to make an announcement about me tonight, which means people will be looking at me and making me more embarrassed and awkward than usual.
A cocktail of Absolut and Prozac sounds really good right now. *cries with frustration*