December Not Traveling
Dec. 10th, 2014 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigo_rose99I am luxuriating in being home.
Work has gone weird. I have end-of-the-month deadlines for several projects.... Which are either wildly impossible to meet or other team members are not ready for my help. I am trying to slough off the impossible... "No, you didn't ask if it could be done by end of December. Now you expect me to make this happen while not giving me 1/2 the information necessary to do it? No. Cannot be done and I refuse to stress myself out completely over the lack. And I refuse to work over Christmas week. No, won't do it. Plan better next time." Grrr...
Ok, it is not working as well as I make it sound, but I'm trying.
I'm doing a lot of weeding. Yeah, you Northerners, it is not frozen here. Most of the day time it is in the 60s F. And I am fighting a low-growing weed invading from a neighbor. I wouldn't care so much, but the mower doesn't cut it off and it is overwhelming the grass. Yes, we still have green grass here. Can you taste the envy?
Every day I turn on the Christmas tree lights so when I pass by it I can feel Christmas-sy. Very satisfying.
I'm thinking a lot about Christmas rituals. What do we want to do to celebrate the season...? I think this is our first Christmas at home for... um... So many years that I have lost count.
T hates the Christmas cards that we just finished. He was cursing them last night and swearing that next year we don't send out any and instead go to the Bahamas. *laugh* I suspect that next year he will want to send a card/letter to just his friends. And be upset if I don't make it happen. *roll eyes* I think I could skip it for a year, just to examine the fallout. Would my extended family (who only hear from me once a year in the card/letter) call or write? Would they decide Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong? Hmmm...
Our TV room is filled with Christmas wrapping. It is kind of satisfying in much the same way the Christmas tree is satisfying. Christmas rituals!
Work has gone weird. I have end-of-the-month deadlines for several projects.... Which are either wildly impossible to meet or other team members are not ready for my help. I am trying to slough off the impossible... "No, you didn't ask if it could be done by end of December. Now you expect me to make this happen while not giving me 1/2 the information necessary to do it? No. Cannot be done and I refuse to stress myself out completely over the lack. And I refuse to work over Christmas week. No, won't do it. Plan better next time." Grrr...
Ok, it is not working as well as I make it sound, but I'm trying.
I'm doing a lot of weeding. Yeah, you Northerners, it is not frozen here. Most of the day time it is in the 60s F. And I am fighting a low-growing weed invading from a neighbor. I wouldn't care so much, but the mower doesn't cut it off and it is overwhelming the grass. Yes, we still have green grass here. Can you taste the envy?
Every day I turn on the Christmas tree lights so when I pass by it I can feel Christmas-sy. Very satisfying.
I'm thinking a lot about Christmas rituals. What do we want to do to celebrate the season...? I think this is our first Christmas at home for... um... So many years that I have lost count.
T hates the Christmas cards that we just finished. He was cursing them last night and swearing that next year we don't send out any and instead go to the Bahamas. *laugh* I suspect that next year he will want to send a card/letter to just his friends. And be upset if I don't make it happen. *roll eyes* I think I could skip it for a year, just to examine the fallout. Would my extended family (who only hear from me once a year in the card/letter) call or write? Would they decide Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong? Hmmm...
Our TV room is filled with Christmas wrapping. It is kind of satisfying in much the same way the Christmas tree is satisfying. Christmas rituals!
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Date: 2014-12-10 06:04 pm (UTC)