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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.
