So Much Shopping
Dec. 19th, 2017 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse I spent from 7am to almost 10:30 am in my car, driving from shop to shop getting the last bits for Solstice/Christmas. I even stood in line at the post office. My whole morning was a quintessential holiday moment, and the kind of thing that would have been trimmed to a "shopping montage" for the movie of my life.
It was a helluva morning.
I've been having a lot more "I hate Christmas" moments this year, and I'm not sure why. Is it Trump's fault? Probably. I mean, most days I start out feeling good, and then I listen to five minutes of the news and I think: ALL IS LOST. Is it this weird, freakishly warm December weather we're having? Probably. I'm sure it's a combination of all these things, plus Shawn suddenly telling me on Sunday that she'd bought me seven presents. I'd bought her two. So, I suddenly felt REALLY FAR BEHIND.
But, I'm mostly caught up now.
You?
It was a helluva morning.
I've been having a lot more "I hate Christmas" moments this year, and I'm not sure why. Is it Trump's fault? Probably. I mean, most days I start out feeling good, and then I listen to five minutes of the news and I think: ALL IS LOST. Is it this weird, freakishly warm December weather we're having? Probably. I'm sure it's a combination of all these things, plus Shawn suddenly telling me on Sunday that she'd bought me seven presents. I'd bought her two. So, I suddenly felt REALLY FAR BEHIND.
But, I'm mostly caught up now.
You?
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Date: 2017-12-20 05:43 am (UTC)So I'm actually feeling okay. Christmas letters went out Monday. Shopped for niece/nephew presents at Market Sunday, have everyone covered except two grand-nephews, who I'll go hunting gifts for this next weekend. Rest of the family will get pots, or food, or a combination of both. (Though my brother might get the food vacuum-sealer I won from BiMart, if it doesn't cost the earth to ship. He butchers, I don't, so he'd get much more use from it than I would.)
Tomorrow is cookie baking day; Thursday we load in to Market again, and I do a grocery run for the Christmas ham, then it's back to work Friday.
Also? Getting my news from NPR's web app. I can't listen to That Man's voice...
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Date: 2017-12-20 02:51 pm (UTC)And, as for news consumption, I've been mostly surviving by listening to far left radio. That helps some. If I have to be depressed about it, at least I have people using words like 'class war' and 'eat the rich.' :-)
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Date: 2017-12-20 04:12 pm (UTC)sigh