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I just don't understand how people do it.
I have been up until 3 or 4 every single night, and have gotten up at like 9ish every day (which is early for me if I stay up until 4!). I have been SCRAMBLING to find Christmas gifts, write and send Christmas cards, decorate, etc etc. I don't know how people go and get their Christmas shopping done so early. I don't know what to get for ANYONE- including my own husband- and I look all year round! I've even done tons of "research" online, and can't seem to find the type of gifts I like to give. And time's running out. Dave is on his way now to send Christmas cards. I only sent to immediate family and a few friends of ours, but our list totaled about 50 cards and they took three separate days of writing and fighting with my computer to do a simple task like print address labels. I have boxes of decorations to put out, but I need to clean first and there are still tons of boxes of stuff from the jewelry party that need to be put away.
I know the snowstorm got in the way, yesterday. We were supposed to get our tree, but after shoveling the driveway all afternoon we still were snowed in so I had Dave pick it up on his own while he was already on the road after work. Then he couldn't even get into the driveway! So for the hour he was out there stuck and trying to flag down a plower (ours never showed up ALL DAY LONG, and claimed he was on his way but never showed!!!) I was inside trying to set up the tree by myself. I found out that we did in fact store our tree holder at his mom's house in IRVING, and threw out our "old" one which I had said we should keep for emergencies. Obviously there was no way we could get to his mom's house in that snow, so I had to improvise. Well over an hour later I finally set up enough buckets with flowerpots inside to hold the tree up, and had to secure it on four sides with hemp so it would be straight! Then..... trying to decorate was a mess. even though everything for Christmas has its own bins in the basement all labeled, things still seemed to be missing here and there. Dave isn't used to the tradition of dressing the tree, and apparantly wasn't as ready/into it as I wanted him to be. Which meant he slept while I got EVERYTHING ready, and then had to beg him to get up and do it with me.
After that I REALLY wanted to take a photo of us and the "babies" (cats) in front of the tree for our first christmas (and to put into cards), but that took another hour or so since both cats are afraid of EVERYTHING and won't be held for pictures. So using SCOTCH TAPE I angled my camera the best I could and faught the claws of both cats until I got a reasonable shot. In it you can see baby cat hanging by my hair!!!!
Today we both set our alarms for 7am, but neither of them went off (or else we BOTH slept through them for hours but I doubt it since Dave doesn't do that) so we weren't up until 9:30. Even though I finished labels last night at 4am, I couldn't print them ( our office is above our neighbor's bedroom so I try to be quiet) and this morning when they printed we had several problems and it took forever. Now he's mad because he's rushed to go pick up photos and get to the post office (all of this in Hamburg since he's doing errands out there, today) by 1pm. I don't blame him because I'm stressed too, but it's not like he was up any earlier or like I was dilly-dallying or not paying attention!
AND I'm supposed to be at school right now!!!! But clinicals end at 2 and I honestly don't think I can cure my cramps, get washed up, and get to West Seneca for clinicals before 12:30. Drive all the way out there for 1.5 hours? When I have to work tonight and have more important things to do? I dono. Problem is, the teacher will probably bitch at me but where was she this week on Tuesday when I sat at my "site" she claimed she was at for 1/2 an hour and she didn't EVER show up?!?! This is my daily struggle with clinical hours. To go or not to go, and if I go it's never worth it because everything else in life gets pushed further down on my list, and if I don't I feel guilty and worry about when my "teacher" is going to flip, even though she's the biggest part of the problem.
I still have to do do all the custom orders I got at my jewelry party. Trying to track down specific beads and whatnot also takes a lot of time and driving, and since we had some changes in plans this week I haven't had the time to finish "early" like I thought I would. I'll get it done by tomorrow when I'll be in Hamburg for church and can deliver the orders. Right?
My uterus hurts. I'm exhausted. I'm stressed. I don't want to work tonight but I have to. So much for finding time to get my hair cut..... .... .... ..... .......
I have been up until 3 or 4 every single night, and have gotten up at like 9ish every day (which is early for me if I stay up until 4!). I have been SCRAMBLING to find Christmas gifts, write and send Christmas cards, decorate, etc etc. I don't know how people go and get their Christmas shopping done so early. I don't know what to get for ANYONE- including my own husband- and I look all year round! I've even done tons of "research" online, and can't seem to find the type of gifts I like to give. And time's running out. Dave is on his way now to send Christmas cards. I only sent to immediate family and a few friends of ours, but our list totaled about 50 cards and they took three separate days of writing and fighting with my computer to do a simple task like print address labels. I have boxes of decorations to put out, but I need to clean first and there are still tons of boxes of stuff from the jewelry party that need to be put away.
I know the snowstorm got in the way, yesterday. We were supposed to get our tree, but after shoveling the driveway all afternoon we still were snowed in so I had Dave pick it up on his own while he was already on the road after work. Then he couldn't even get into the driveway! So for the hour he was out there stuck and trying to flag down a plower (ours never showed up ALL DAY LONG, and claimed he was on his way but never showed!!!) I was inside trying to set up the tree by myself. I found out that we did in fact store our tree holder at his mom's house in IRVING, and threw out our "old" one which I had said we should keep for emergencies. Obviously there was no way we could get to his mom's house in that snow, so I had to improvise. Well over an hour later I finally set up enough buckets with flowerpots inside to hold the tree up, and had to secure it on four sides with hemp so it would be straight! Then..... trying to decorate was a mess. even though everything for Christmas has its own bins in the basement all labeled, things still seemed to be missing here and there. Dave isn't used to the tradition of dressing the tree, and apparantly wasn't as ready/into it as I wanted him to be. Which meant he slept while I got EVERYTHING ready, and then had to beg him to get up and do it with me.
After that I REALLY wanted to take a photo of us and the "babies" (cats) in front of the tree for our first christmas (and to put into cards), but that took another hour or so since both cats are afraid of EVERYTHING and won't be held for pictures. So using SCOTCH TAPE I angled my camera the best I could and faught the claws of both cats until I got a reasonable shot. In it you can see baby cat hanging by my hair!!!!
Today we both set our alarms for 7am, but neither of them went off (or else we BOTH slept through them for hours but I doubt it since Dave doesn't do that) so we weren't up until 9:30. Even though I finished labels last night at 4am, I couldn't print them ( our office is above our neighbor's bedroom so I try to be quiet) and this morning when they printed we had several problems and it took forever. Now he's mad because he's rushed to go pick up photos and get to the post office (all of this in Hamburg since he's doing errands out there, today) by 1pm. I don't blame him because I'm stressed too, but it's not like he was up any earlier or like I was dilly-dallying or not paying attention!
AND I'm supposed to be at school right now!!!! But clinicals end at 2 and I honestly don't think I can cure my cramps, get washed up, and get to West Seneca for clinicals before 12:30. Drive all the way out there for 1.5 hours? When I have to work tonight and have more important things to do? I dono. Problem is, the teacher will probably bitch at me but where was she this week on Tuesday when I sat at my "site" she claimed she was at for 1/2 an hour and she didn't EVER show up?!?! This is my daily struggle with clinical hours. To go or not to go, and if I go it's never worth it because everything else in life gets pushed further down on my list, and if I don't I feel guilty and worry about when my "teacher" is going to flip, even though she's the biggest part of the problem.
I still have to do do all the custom orders I got at my jewelry party. Trying to track down specific beads and whatnot also takes a lot of time and driving, and since we had some changes in plans this week I haven't had the time to finish "early" like I thought I would. I'll get it done by tomorrow when I'll be in Hamburg for church and can deliver the orders. Right?
My uterus hurts. I'm exhausted. I'm stressed. I don't want to work tonight but I have to. So much for finding time to get my hair cut..... .... .... ..... .......