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Dec. 9th, 2003 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandContinuing to chip away at the Christmas list. Hurray for online shopping! Now all I have to deal with is the existential doubt of Christmas shopping:
- This is so perfect for X, will someone else think of it first?
- Maybe Y already owns this.
- This is on Z's Christmas list and it's easy, so probably someone else will get it.
- Do the 2 smallish things I'm giving A balance out the one largish thing I'm giving B?
- This is OK for C, but it's not brilliant. My gifts must all be brilliant!
All wrong, wrong, wrong and not remotely in the Christmas spirit. But I can't seem to help it. For the first 3, I guess I should just keep chanting "They can exchange it" when in doubt. For the fourth, I've noticed that in gift-giving, I like to have a sort of centrepiece gift, otherwise it feels all wrong and unbalanced and I keep adding more! more! tinygifts! and it just never works out.
For the fifth, I probably need to take a nice hot bath, drink a couple of Rusty Nails and just relax already.
I got 3 little projects today, which have to be finished before Christmas. That's 2 weeks. Ack. Meanwhile I only have 1 other project on the go -- large but under control, which means I don't have a lot to do, which means (in the paradoxical world of wondrous idiocy that is my life) that I screw around all day, feel guilty, and stay late at the office. Must. stop.
Have yet to make a start on my Christmas cards, other than buying them and making a list of recipients. (I guess that is a start.) So if you want a Christmas card (actually a nice nondenominational seasonal card, with snowy scenes), it's not too late to let me know!
I had something brilliant to say, but it's gone now.
I'm all jealous of other people's nice icons. I think I need some more.
- This is so perfect for X, will someone else think of it first?
- Maybe Y already owns this.
- This is on Z's Christmas list and it's easy, so probably someone else will get it.
- Do the 2 smallish things I'm giving A balance out the one largish thing I'm giving B?
- This is OK for C, but it's not brilliant. My gifts must all be brilliant!
All wrong, wrong, wrong and not remotely in the Christmas spirit. But I can't seem to help it. For the first 3, I guess I should just keep chanting "They can exchange it" when in doubt. For the fourth, I've noticed that in gift-giving, I like to have a sort of centrepiece gift, otherwise it feels all wrong and unbalanced and I keep adding more! more! tinygifts! and it just never works out.
For the fifth, I probably need to take a nice hot bath, drink a couple of Rusty Nails and just relax already.
I got 3 little projects today, which have to be finished before Christmas. That's 2 weeks. Ack. Meanwhile I only have 1 other project on the go -- large but under control, which means I don't have a lot to do, which means (in the paradoxical world of wondrous idiocy that is my life) that I screw around all day, feel guilty, and stay late at the office. Must. stop.
Have yet to make a start on my Christmas cards, other than buying them and making a list of recipients. (I guess that is a start.) So if you want a Christmas card (actually a nice nondenominational seasonal card, with snowy scenes), it's not too late to let me know!
I had something brilliant to say, but it's gone now.
I'm all jealous of other people's nice icons. I think I need some more.
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Date: 2003-12-09 11:17 pm (UTC)re: icons: ok, but don't forget poor Beau. He doesn't want to be forgotten....
re: my post, to your post, above. Guess you weren't at home. *stern look* Also, have you called your ISP to make DAMN sure your modem is at fault this time? HUH? Or wait, is it virus protection that is at issue? Because if so, avg has free downloadable software for home use. Just give 'em your hotmail addy, because much spam will arrive at given addy, in Mom's experience.
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Date: 2003-12-10 09:34 am (UTC)And I would never forget Beau! See?
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Date: 2003-12-10 12:31 am (UTC)The Christmas spirit is not what you drink.
This makes no sense in relation to what I'm saying, but dammit, I don't care. ;)
Relax, girl. :)
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Date: 2003-12-10 09:32 am (UTC)And maybe the quote makes no sense, but I like it. So thanks twice.
And GOOD LUCK on Friday! *squee*