holly jolly christmas
woohoo!! my second time blogging this month! it's sad that that's progress, isn't it? =)
let's see... there was a crazy-ass christmas party at my house on the 16th, followed by an even crazier roadtrip to a concert on the 17th, last-minute christmas shopping, verbal warfare with the UPS people (more on that later), my birthday, and the blur that was christmas day, followed by the insanity that is picking up a shift at the starbucks in the mall on the day after christmas. (who thought that was a good idea?!?!?) but somehow, i think i survived it all. and i'll probably do it all again next year, really.
since last year was the first time in ages that i'd actually enjoyed christmas, i'd set for myself the ambitious goal of at least not HATING christmas this year. which, i mostly accomplished. there were a few rough moments, but overall, it was ok. i could have done without the non-stop christmas music at the bucks. talk about annoying. i'd have a day off and still wake up with those stupid songs in my head!!! it was so irritating! AND there's this creepy, screechy, weird winston marsalis version of carol of the bells that sounds like something out of a bad horror movie--this girl one of my co-workers knows evidently plans to write one, inspired by that song, about snowmen stabbing people with candy canes. but if nothing else, it gave us all something to comiserate about. and there were at least the redeeming moments when the charlie brown soundtrack was playing =)
this christmas was definitely different from last year--no snowy evenings spent wandering about the weihnachtsmaerkte, no christmas trees lit with real candles. but there was some gluehwein at my party--which was a big hit, if i may say so myself =) and i had my very first christmas stocking this year, which was particularly exciting, because there's a (semi-)functioning fireplace in our apartment!! the cats enjoyed the christmas tree (although my allergies did not!)--they sat in chairs on either side of it and just stared for hours on end, OR chased each other around underneath it, amazingly, breaking only one ornament this year! and there has been much drinking of tea and hot chocolate in front of the fireplace--except when it gets too smoky, and i get yelled at =) i even had to light a fire for warmth a week or so ago, when we discovered that our upstairs neighbors had all left for the holidays and turned down their thermostat, which, apparently, controls the heat for the whole house!!! it was 58 degrees in the apartment when i got home in the afternoon, and it definitely wasn't going to get any warmer when the sun went down. brrr!!! fortunately, our landlords came over and turned the upstairs girls' heat back up, so we didn't freeze to death--or die of smoke inhalation, due to our tempermental chimney. but yeah...
there are probably 8 million more equally unimportant things i could write about, but i think i'd rather sleep for a bit. but i will post my rant about UPS soon. really. probably not while it's still december. after all, 3 posts in one month might be a bit much =) but soon...
let's see... there was a crazy-ass christmas party at my house on the 16th, followed by an even crazier roadtrip to a concert on the 17th, last-minute christmas shopping, verbal warfare with the UPS people (more on that later), my birthday, and the blur that was christmas day, followed by the insanity that is picking up a shift at the starbucks in the mall on the day after christmas. (who thought that was a good idea?!?!?) but somehow, i think i survived it all. and i'll probably do it all again next year, really.
since last year was the first time in ages that i'd actually enjoyed christmas, i'd set for myself the ambitious goal of at least not HATING christmas this year. which, i mostly accomplished. there were a few rough moments, but overall, it was ok. i could have done without the non-stop christmas music at the bucks. talk about annoying. i'd have a day off and still wake up with those stupid songs in my head!!! it was so irritating! AND there's this creepy, screechy, weird winston marsalis version of carol of the bells that sounds like something out of a bad horror movie--this girl one of my co-workers knows evidently plans to write one, inspired by that song, about snowmen stabbing people with candy canes. but if nothing else, it gave us all something to comiserate about. and there were at least the redeeming moments when the charlie brown soundtrack was playing =)
this christmas was definitely different from last year--no snowy evenings spent wandering about the weihnachtsmaerkte, no christmas trees lit with real candles. but there was some gluehwein at my party--which was a big hit, if i may say so myself =) and i had my very first christmas stocking this year, which was particularly exciting, because there's a (semi-)functioning fireplace in our apartment!! the cats enjoyed the christmas tree (although my allergies did not!)--they sat in chairs on either side of it and just stared for hours on end, OR chased each other around underneath it, amazingly, breaking only one ornament this year! and there has been much drinking of tea and hot chocolate in front of the fireplace--except when it gets too smoky, and i get yelled at =) i even had to light a fire for warmth a week or so ago, when we discovered that our upstairs neighbors had all left for the holidays and turned down their thermostat, which, apparently, controls the heat for the whole house!!! it was 58 degrees in the apartment when i got home in the afternoon, and it definitely wasn't going to get any warmer when the sun went down. brrr!!! fortunately, our landlords came over and turned the upstairs girls' heat back up, so we didn't freeze to death--or die of smoke inhalation, due to our tempermental chimney. but yeah...
there are probably 8 million more equally unimportant things i could write about, but i think i'd rather sleep for a bit. but i will post my rant about UPS soon. really. probably not while it's still december. after all, 3 posts in one month might be a bit much =) but soon...
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