Obvious:<\/b> Christmas Day is a week from today.<\/p>\n
Like everyone else:<\/b> I’m not quite ready. And this time I can blame it not on my own procrastination (I started my shopping two weeks ago!), but on the fact that I and a transportational gimp for the time being. <\/p>\n
So I’m here in the apartment, hanging out, up to my elbows in photo prints and clear adhesive photo corners and photo album pages (don’t ask; yet another stupid last-minute homemade Christmas present project), and I’ve got shit waiting on me at the post office and beyond, that’s just going to have to sit there until I have a way of getting there to pick it up. The bad thing is that I’m not really sure what it is; it could be a number of things. I’m losing track of what mail-order I still lack. And whether it all’s going to get here in time. Ack. <\/p>\n
I went to Wal-Mart yesterday to pick up my photos and nearly self-immolated right there between the slow-as-molasses self-checkout and the nearby display of books, cookware, lighter fluid, long johns, cantaloupes, and toenail clippers. It’s my own fault, it always is, that I even end up in Wal-Mart at any time. I could have gone to Target (not that it doesn’t come packed with its own frustrations) or maybe even Walgreens for my digital photo printing, but Wal-Mart lured me with its cheap pricing and online upload. Yes, yes, I’m part of the problem, blah blah hooey. <\/p>\n
Just thinking about wrapping up loose ends late in the week (if I even get the car back by then; the mechanic says they’ve determined the problem but they haven’t started fixing it yet and they’re down to one mechanic who’s swamped at the moment) is making me squirm. <\/p>\n
I’m gonna need to move this holiday back a week. Everyone’s on board with that, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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