Still not going placidly, II: the week of pressing life admin
This week seems to be a tense Tetris game of assorted tasks most of which are seasonally-related* and therefore time-dependent. (Teeth, eyes and hair are all being deferred until the New Year.)
I did not get round to these before my week away because PRESSURES.
My week away was a week away chillin', right?
Last week I did not get round to these because PRESSURES:AKADEMYK as previously whinged about.
Anyway, am now up against hard limits of last posting dates/delivery dates among other things.
This means, to my annoyance and shame, that I have had to resort to Evil Online Retail Operation, which I had hoped to be able to eschew, but sadly, other operations don't seem to be prepared to offer expeditious delivery, if they even have the items in stock.
It was therefore modestly pleasing, or at least, not an additional cause of frazzle, to succeed today in buying stamps, purchasing presents for the youngest generation, posting cards, and picking up outstanding part of a prescription from the chemists, without having to make major detours en route or entirely separate trips.
On to the next things, wassailing and decking myself with boughs of holly: the effect is probably something like Poor Tom.
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