Argghhhhh! I had started a post about the commercialism of Christmas and accidentally closed my browser, so poof! it's gone. :( Now I have something else to vent about, lol.
I'm not looking forward to sending Christmas cards (I want to include a photo, but we don't have any good ones of the two of us). I really hate addressing them, but I love getting them so I guess I better get going (though the reality is I probably won't be sending my cards until the 22nd). And shopping. Yuck. Black Friday really turned me off. In fact, I really haven't enjoyed shopping for the past few years. We're not exchanging gifts this year on one side of the family and are not sure about the other side. I'm just not in the mood to shop. Probably because I need to buy a new dress for my nephew's wedding and am carrying a little too much weight right now. And I doubt I'll be able to take much off in the next month.
All the cookies and candy that show up this time of year aren't welcome since I need to loose weight. I expect to see a couple pounds of See's candy in the next week (we already devoured one pound today), plus an abundance of cookies. I'm going a cookie exchange this weekend and will bring in the goodies to work so as not to tempt myself at home. Maybe we'll get some vendor gifts this year (usually we get food though sometimes we get calendars). Or maybe not with the bad economy.
I really hate the commercialism and money grab this time of the year. Shouldn't we be giving year round? Please remember to donate to the food banks in February/March. That's when they run of the food and funds from the Thanksgiving/Christmas donations. Though it might be sooner since they've gotten fewer donations this year.
If you enjoy the holidays, I salute you!
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I know you are probably sick of hearing me whine but I just wanted to let you know you're not alone.
Not having Chris here is making my holiday workload twice as hard!
Today I had a list of MUST do's. Monday is Caleb's 15th birthday and I need to go get a cake and stuff for that. I have NO groceries here to make a Christmas dinner, I need a new black ink cartridge for my printer. I can't print a couple of must have coupons that I need. That's just the tip of the list.
Then, to top it off my dog got an eye infection, so my To Do list got put on hold while I spent the better part of my day sitting in the vets office! And they charged me for a rabies vaccine that they didn't even give her!! GRRR
Hello! She was with ME the whole time. The vet came in, put drops in her eyes, handed me the bill and left! No body gave her the vaccine. (frustrated!)
I tell ya, I am BURNT OUT on the holiday thing. And to think, Chris gets to walk in to a nicely decorated house, a big meal on the table, and all the gifts bought, wrapped, and ready to give. And the sad part is that he'll just think a magic fairy did it all. No hard work on my part whatsoever. Sometimes I want to trade places with him.
For whatever it's worth...
Happy HA HA Holidays!
(Sorry for the long vent)
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