Procrastinating. Because...
Copyright Susan Ogden
1.} i am tired.
2.) i am not in the mood to wrap anything....even tho here are a bazillion Bean things to wrap.
3.) The Beans were here for almost 3 hours this morning, even tho they were SUPPOSED to be here an HOUR....so i had to rearrange my whole morning and ran out of steam.
4.) There are still things arriving via UPS and Fed-Ex and i have not a clue what else i ordered that has not yet arrived...
5.) it is yet ANOTHER rainy gray day and that causes me a flare up of S.A.D and i NEED sun.
6.) I used up most of my morning energy taking a shower, feeding the Beans breakfast and supervising them and then when their dad stopped in for lunch i quick made an escape to the Post Office to mail my daughter and her boyfriends gifts.....yes, i know they will not get to Manassas on time.....sigh....
7.) i have a print to do up and frame for someone....not a gift....a prize for being the 100th like on my boutique FB page. Bless Unique Photo for shipping me ink yesterday that arrived today :)
8.) i had to clean out my closet and organize all the stuff for charity to a local church....then photograph it, for tax deducition purposes. Done!
9.) Had to take apart and redo the beautiful centerpiece that was a gift from my cleaning girl....it was shedding blue spruce like whoa! ( I went out in the rain and clipped a bunch of different evergreens and holly and dismantled it and redid it for the dining room table. tick this off the list!)
10.) it is 4:30pm and i have no idea what i am making for dinner...but the way i feel it might be oatmeal!
11.) oh yeah....i have had to reset the internet 3X today and am about to give Comcast a piece of my mind....they are the pits lately, as this is becoming a daily challenge.
On a brighter note...the tree is done. The house is about 75 percent back to normal. I am not cooking for Christmas....FINALLY!!! . My daughter and Luke ARE coming....late Christmas Day. YAY!! Christmas day will be blissfully quiet with my middle daughter cooking dinner. The better part of the day will be spent quietly in my pajamas with a good book with any luck! Double YAY!
On a less joyful note, the annual Christmas Gathering will happen on Saturday. These take so much out of me...my recovery time is getting longer and longer with each one. i am not built for turmoil and noise. i am not built for kids running amuck in my house....breaking things and screaming, or party games. The debate raging in my head at the moment is what time to have this gathering, that the least amount of time possible is spent having to open gifts, entertain, referee, eat, play the silly game that is planned by Crazy Aunt Sandy, clean up, and retreat to my bubble for recovery time. Would it be rude to say 5 to 7 pm?!!? Yeah....i thought so. :-/
I actually told my husband not to get me anything and i will not get him anything. It is so pointless. There is nothing to get him....he has no hobbies....he has no friends to have a hobby with...he used to golf but has not done that in a couple years. All he ever does is work...and when he needs things for work, he mentions it in the 3 weeks leading to Christmas and then suddenly goes out and buys it all. pointless. Sigh.....
Happy Night Before the Night Before Christmas :)
Procrastinating. Because...
Copyright Susan Ogden
1.} i am tired.
2.) i am not in the mood to wrap anything....even tho here are a bazillion Bean things to wrap.
3.) The Beans were here for almost 3 hours this morning, even tho they were SUPPOSED to be here an HOUR....so i had to rearrange my whole morning and ran out of steam.
4.) There are still things arriving via UPS and Fed-Ex and i have not a clue what else i ordered that has not yet arrived...
5.) it is yet ANOTHER rainy gray day and that causes me a flare up of S.A.D and i NEED sun.
6.) I used up most of my morning energy taking a shower, feeding the Beans breakfast and supervising them and then when their dad stopped in for lunch i quick made an escape to the Post Office to mail my daughter and her boyfriends gifts.....yes, i know they will not get to Manassas on time.....sigh....
7.) i have a print to do up and frame for someone....not a gift....a prize for being the 100th like on my boutique FB page. Bless Unique Photo for shipping me ink yesterday that arrived today :)
8.) i had to clean out my closet and organize all the stuff for charity to a local church....then photograph it, for tax deducition purposes. Done!
9.) Had to take apart and redo the beautiful centerpiece that was a gift from my cleaning girl....it was shedding blue spruce like whoa! ( I went out in the rain and clipped a bunch of different evergreens and holly and dismantled it and redid it for the dining room table. tick this off the list!)
10.) it is 4:30pm and i have no idea what i am making for dinner...but the way i feel it might be oatmeal!
11.) oh yeah....i have had to reset the internet 3X today and am about to give Comcast a piece of my mind....they are the pits lately, as this is becoming a daily challenge.
On a brighter note...the tree is done. The house is about 75 percent back to normal. I am not cooking for Christmas....FINALLY!!! . My daughter and Luke ARE coming....late Christmas Day. YAY!! Christmas day will be blissfully quiet with my middle daughter cooking dinner. The better part of the day will be spent quietly in my pajamas with a good book with any luck! Double YAY!
On a less joyful note, the annual Christmas Gathering will happen on Saturday. These take so much out of me...my recovery time is getting longer and longer with each one. i am not built for turmoil and noise. i am not built for kids running amuck in my house....breaking things and screaming, or party games. The debate raging in my head at the moment is what time to have this gathering, that the least amount of time possible is spent having to open gifts, entertain, referee, eat, play the silly game that is planned by Crazy Aunt Sandy, clean up, and retreat to my bubble for recovery time. Would it be rude to say 5 to 7 pm?!!? Yeah....i thought so. :-/
I actually told my husband not to get me anything and i will not get him anything. It is so pointless. There is nothing to get him....he has no hobbies....he has no friends to have a hobby with...he used to golf but has not done that in a couple years. All he ever does is work...and when he needs things for work, he mentions it in the 3 weeks leading to Christmas and then suddenly goes out and buys it all. pointless. Sigh.....
Happy Night Before the Night Before Christmas :)