Sigh.<\/p>\n
Sigh… Sigh… Sigh….<\/p>\n
Maggie’s down for a nap.\u00a0 The cat’s down for a nap.\u00a0 The dog is banging on the back door.\u00a0 John is at the studio.\u00a0 This is my first chance to sit down and get some writing done today.\u00a0 I think I am having something moderately similar to a train wreck – the list of things to do is overwhelming!\u00a0 But then, I stop and think – wait, what is it<\/strong><\/em> that I have to do?\u00a0 The list is actually very short.\u00a0 But there’s this thing.\u00a0 This thing that is constantly on my mind.\u00a0 Like a nagging faucet drip.. drip.. dripping… It’s the Christmas shopping.\u00a0 The Christmas shopping is making me feel like I have a mountain to climb.\u00a0 The fact that all (ok. three) my friends are done (yes. done!) and I have not even started, is starting to make me feel like Christmas is tomorrow.<\/p>\n Did I mention that we are buying my son a piano for Christmas?\u00a0 Do you realize the amount of planning and organizing it takes to orchestrate a piano magically appearing on Christmas morning.\u00a0 Combine this with the fact that I have zero skills in the planning and organizing department and – kaZow – my head starts to feel like it’s going to pop off.\u00a0 We’ve got the spot in the house picked out – it’s gonna look killer on the wooden floors right next to the antique fire place. BUT. How do I get it there<\/em> in those magic hours between Christmas eve and Christmas morning?!?!?\u00a0 DAMN those elves for only being imaginary!\u00a0 Damn them!!<\/p>\n These are the times in my life that I envy (dare I say… loathe) those smarty pant organizer people… You know the ones.. The ones who wear watches and set alarms and know how to have all their Christmas shopping done before the 20th of December AND have everything wrapped and all their Christmas cards mailed out (I don’t even HAVE Christmas cards yet!)….\u00a0 Is it possible that I just was born to be this disfunctional?\u00a0 I mean, maybe it is something so ingrained in me that I can’t shake it, right?\u00a0 All my banker friends, and I do have them, are way ahead of the game – because that’s how they were born, right?\u00a0 They like things to work as efficiently as they do in banks.\u00a0 All my artist and musician friends, complete other end of the spectrum.. Hell. We have a hard time remembering it is even December half the time and then we end up walking around in a daze looking like electro-shock patients, wondering why strange men are making children sit on their laps and why everyone is wearing sweaters with trees and deer on them…\u00a0\u00a0 And, then, December 24th comes around and we are running our asses off at Target trying to buy everyone we have ever met a Christmas present but nothing is left in the store so we end up buying everyone laundry detergent, shaving cream and lotion claiming that we were trying to be “practical” with gifts this year.<\/p>\n So, with this knowledge all tucked in my brain, you would be right to say “hey, Lisa, why not get a head start!\u00a0 It’s still early!\u00a0 You can start today!”.\u00a0 And to that, I have no other response other than –\u00a0 I’ll see you at Target on the 24th.\u00a0 You’ll find me in the lotion aisle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sigh. Sigh… Sigh… Sigh…. Maggie’s down for a nap.\u00a0 The cat’s down for a nap.\u00a0 The dog is banging on the back door.\u00a0 John is at the studio.\u00a0 This is my first chance to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}