Christmas Eve
The annual drive-to-Pennsylvania family holiday madness extravaganza has begun! As I sit here, sated from my annual dosage of fish, mushroom pierogies, and chrusciki and makowiec, and watching Elf with my in-laws I thought it would be apt time to discuss recent events.
The past week seemed to go for an eternity. A literal eternity. Despite being chock full with retirement and holiday parties at work, I barely had time to go to any of them. While the anticipation of being free for an entire week (yes, those of us working in higher education do not work between Christmas and New Years) it adds to a sense of desperation to get things done before the New Year. Keith worked late because as he does not work at a college/university, he is NOT free from the 26th to 31st. Therefore, he has worked extra late in order to be away from his desk.
Operation "Let's flip this PS3" was not successful. To say the least, we paid for a schwanky listing on eBay only to have a bunch of cheapos not meet our totally reasonable reserve price, so we were out $40 and we returned the PS3 to Costco anyway. As we went to Target today to pick up some last minute supplies, we were surprised to see two (or more) PS3 units waiting for some shopper to just stroll in and buy. Something tells me that the Sony Corporation is not going to be happy when those 4Q sales figures come rolling in...
The holiday season had all the potential to be a vertible record of organization for me. There was no Christmas shopping the night before driving to Pennysylvania--I think this is the first Christmas ever since leaving college where I was not up until 3 am the night before wrapping gifts (and mind you, Keith and I don't even have kids yet). After Thanksgiving there was all the potential to do everything I never have time for (like cookie baking) but cookie baking did not happen. Why? Because I was friggin tired. I did manage to attend an awesome cookie decorating class at HBS hosted by the pastry chef--so that's not a huge loss. I got cookie decorating out of my system even if I had nothing to show to my family/friends.
But still, the whole exercise could have been a lot more leisurely. I really like what we did by starting to shop in October, I'm vowing to start even earlier next year. Sometimes it seems like being more prepared this year made the season go by even faster.
Keith and I are literally going to go everywhere in this state. Now we are in Central Pennsylvania (Amish Country) and tomorrow we're headed to West Chester, Pennsylvania (just outside Philadelphia). On Tuesday we're headed to good ol' Bedford (my homestead in Western Central Pennsylvania) and we're going to be in Pittsburgh (the Steel City) the 29th and 30th.
The past week seemed to go for an eternity. A literal eternity. Despite being chock full with retirement and holiday parties at work, I barely had time to go to any of them. While the anticipation of being free for an entire week (yes, those of us working in higher education do not work between Christmas and New Years) it adds to a sense of desperation to get things done before the New Year. Keith worked late because as he does not work at a college/university, he is NOT free from the 26th to 31st. Therefore, he has worked extra late in order to be away from his desk.
Operation "Let's flip this PS3" was not successful. To say the least, we paid for a schwanky listing on eBay only to have a bunch of cheapos not meet our totally reasonable reserve price, so we were out $40 and we returned the PS3 to Costco anyway. As we went to Target today to pick up some last minute supplies, we were surprised to see two (or more) PS3 units waiting for some shopper to just stroll in and buy. Something tells me that the Sony Corporation is not going to be happy when those 4Q sales figures come rolling in...
The holiday season had all the potential to be a vertible record of organization for me. There was no Christmas shopping the night before driving to Pennysylvania--I think this is the first Christmas ever since leaving college where I was not up until 3 am the night before wrapping gifts (and mind you, Keith and I don't even have kids yet). After Thanksgiving there was all the potential to do everything I never have time for (like cookie baking) but cookie baking did not happen. Why? Because I was friggin tired. I did manage to attend an awesome cookie decorating class at HBS hosted by the pastry chef--so that's not a huge loss. I got cookie decorating out of my system even if I had nothing to show to my family/friends.
But still, the whole exercise could have been a lot more leisurely. I really like what we did by starting to shop in October, I'm vowing to start even earlier next year. Sometimes it seems like being more prepared this year made the season go by even faster.
Keith and I are literally going to go everywhere in this state. Now we are in Central Pennsylvania (Amish Country) and tomorrow we're headed to West Chester, Pennsylvania (just outside Philadelphia). On Tuesday we're headed to good ol' Bedford (my homestead in Western Central Pennsylvania) and we're going to be in Pittsburgh (the Steel City) the 29th and 30th.
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