1. There are only six more days until Christmas.
2. There is no end in sight to my work. (This is especially weird, because I'm used to being finished far earlier in December, because I've had structured semesters with finals and everything. Like, last year, I was in Saskatchewan by mid-December.)
3. I have currently purchased two Christmas presents.
4. A lot of people ask questions like, "So, are you done your Christmas shopping?"
5. I won't reasonably have time for Christmas shopping until Saturday. As in the 23rd. Saturday the 23rd. This means that all subsequent shopping with take place as far away from malls as possible. Tiny stores and as little driving as possible, here I come! (Or else I'll have a replay of the near-panic-attack I have every Christmas Eve in the line-up at Wal-Mart.)
6. I have no frame of reference for this Christmas. I hardly have time off. I'm not in Saskatchewan. I'm not with my parents and siblings. I have no Christmas tree. As a result, I cling to the one element that resembles familiar Christmas: Boney M.
7. I apparently cling to the familiar.
8. In a week, I'll be in Saskatchewan. That realisation is even weirder than the previous ones.
9. Since I got married, I'm suddenly on several people's Christmas Letter Mailing List. I'm not sure that I really am that much more of an adult than I was before I got married.
10. Seeing as I'm finished marking those finals, I'd better get finishing that essay.
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Weird realizations for trillwing:
1. "Realization" is spelled with an "s" in the Queen's English. I'll be damned.
2. The website I designed for Mr. Trillwing is giving me a big "404 Not Found." Not happy.
3. Wal-Mart on Christmas Eve is my latest conception of hell. Thanks for that.
4. Tomorrow at 8 a.m. we begin moving from an apartment to a rental house. I need to be on my way to the airport by 5 p.m. And I'm not packed for the trip to hometown. Hmmmm. Fun day!
Good luck with your shopping, QoWP! As royalty, don't you have minions who can do your shopping for you?
My last-minute Christmas shopping tip: restaurant gift certificates. Pick them up once you arrive at your destination. :)
I know I don't have time for Christmas shopping, so I do all my shopping online, usually in one massive order. I start filling a cart in November and keep adding until I've covered everyone. Apparently, and this has just come up after four years of marriage, my husband thinks that this method of Christmas shopping is blasphemous and he believes that I have ruined the beloved ritual of going to the stores and browsing for gifts. The kicker is that HE works 60 hours a week and obviously does not have time to go shopping anywhere. So now everyone in my family and my husband's family has a gift, except me, my husband is going to have to brave the last minute frenzy alone at some ungodly hour to buy a gift for me, and I'm the bad guy for doing everything on time the easy way. So even though I didn't procrastinate, I am spending these last few days in a bad mood over Christmas shopping. Whew. Thanks for letting me vent all over your space!
Trillwing -- I'm sorry that you're moving in such a hurry, but hooray! that you can move into a rental house now! Hooray for Trillwing's awesome job! Hooray for the bigger space!
And in Canada it seems like we have options between using the "z" and the "s". Words like "honour" for sure have a "u" in the middle (except, oddly with something like "honorary"). I like the soft look of using the "s" instead of the "z". Although that cuts down on the number of times I get to say "zed."
Sarah -- oh, am I ever envious that you've already finished most of your shopping online. I was trying to use my credit card as little as possible this year, and so that was less of an option (except in the case of my sister-in-law in Ireland -- hooray for amazon UK!). But I sure don't idealise the mad rush of buying presents in stores. In fact, it makes me panicky and I don't like it.
There is still time to convert to Judaism.
Wal-Mart is my favourite!! And it's open 24 hours hear until Christmas eve!! Oh happy day!
PS. Rhea is funny.
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