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I really I can’t wait for Christmas to be over. I still find it ridiculous that so much pressure and stress and materialism and waste and energy are put into only ONE day. I’ve worked retail to know that it’s a load of crap. Half the stuff gets returned, there are riots in the streets and shops over ridiculous pricing that would never even be considered any other time of year. Seriously, just skip it and get down to what really matters.
I know not to get too caught up in all this stuff. There shouldn’t be one day or one season to be generous or loving or to want peace and joy for everyone. It should be year round in every continent with every people. As Bill and Ted declared, “Be excellent to each other.” But at the same time, I feel guilty when I can’t do more for people. I’ve tried to give my time this year, doing what I can for Chris and Christina in their moving project. I’ve been looking out for things for Heather’s apartment and the kids. But I haven’t had the time or money lately to even get cards done. I don’t know if I should save them for next year or sent them after the fact. I also can’t put together little gift packages for my net friends like I have in years past (hell, even then I didn’t have the money for shipping.) I like being able to spoil my friends when I can, and Christmas has become the ultimate spoiling time. But in my adulthood I don’t want to give just cool stuff or trinkets, because everyone has enough of those. I like to give and receive particle gifts. And what do you get for parents? My folks know better what they need, and they have way too much stuff. (Mom is quite the pack rat. Maybe for next Christmas I should pay for all her old cross stitch projects to be properly framed.) I just wish there were more I could do overall. Stupid commercial pressure…
But after Christmas I can really get down to fixing and reorganizing things. Greg and I are going to make another attempt to cut back on the junk and get in shape. Before New Years we’re going to sit down, go through all the random un-needed stuff, and make a list for donation to the Good Will. Hopefully it’ll be a good chunk off our taxes, especially for Greg since his uniform pieces were probably originally $20 or $30 or more per piece. I would also like to get some more work shoes and compression socks to take the pressure off my poor legs and knees and write that off on my taxes. We’re going to undertake some winterizing measures so that this cheaply-built apartment isn’t so fucking cold. (We have the plastic; we just need a day to get it up.) Hopefully we can reorganize the kitchen and get things upstairs in some kind of order. And I want to learn out to make sushi. I need something that’s yummy and won’t make me huge.
Still so much to do before I can get to any of that though; I work late, I have to pack for the overnight with my parents and the stuff for Heather, have to balance the checkbook…and in the future I have to learn to not procrastinate.
I know not to get too caught up in all this stuff. There shouldn’t be one day or one season to be generous or loving or to want peace and joy for everyone. It should be year round in every continent with every people. As Bill and Ted declared, “Be excellent to each other.” But at the same time, I feel guilty when I can’t do more for people. I’ve tried to give my time this year, doing what I can for Chris and Christina in their moving project. I’ve been looking out for things for Heather’s apartment and the kids. But I haven’t had the time or money lately to even get cards done. I don’t know if I should save them for next year or sent them after the fact. I also can’t put together little gift packages for my net friends like I have in years past (hell, even then I didn’t have the money for shipping.) I like being able to spoil my friends when I can, and Christmas has become the ultimate spoiling time. But in my adulthood I don’t want to give just cool stuff or trinkets, because everyone has enough of those. I like to give and receive particle gifts. And what do you get for parents? My folks know better what they need, and they have way too much stuff. (Mom is quite the pack rat. Maybe for next Christmas I should pay for all her old cross stitch projects to be properly framed.) I just wish there were more I could do overall. Stupid commercial pressure…
But after Christmas I can really get down to fixing and reorganizing things. Greg and I are going to make another attempt to cut back on the junk and get in shape. Before New Years we’re going to sit down, go through all the random un-needed stuff, and make a list for donation to the Good Will. Hopefully it’ll be a good chunk off our taxes, especially for Greg since his uniform pieces were probably originally $20 or $30 or more per piece. I would also like to get some more work shoes and compression socks to take the pressure off my poor legs and knees and write that off on my taxes. We’re going to undertake some winterizing measures so that this cheaply-built apartment isn’t so fucking cold. (We have the plastic; we just need a day to get it up.) Hopefully we can reorganize the kitchen and get things upstairs in some kind of order. And I want to learn out to make sushi. I need something that’s yummy and won’t make me huge.
Still so much to do before I can get to any of that though; I work late, I have to pack for the overnight with my parents and the stuff for Heather, have to balance the checkbook…and in the future I have to learn to not procrastinate.