(no subject)
Dec. 23rd, 2018 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyHollaaa, it's the night before Christmas Eve, but it kind of feels like the night before Christmas because I said I'd get all my presents wrapped over the weekend, so I could relax tomorrow. So far I have done two thirds of them, and the last ones aren't too bad, although I think they will take the most paper. The (christmas shark) wrapping paper I'm using seems slippier than usual, so I'm worried all the tape will come unstuck by Tuesday morning, but I'm using a lot to try to compensate.
It turns out I am working tomorrow. In fact, I'm going in early, because my manager is pretty convinced we'll go quite early in the afternoon, so he said it would be nice if the morning receptionist could go early too, which I didn't think of but is totally fair. So I'm going in for 10, which means I have to get up at 8, which means I have to have a shower tonight. Another thing on the to-do list. He also said that the best answer he could get out of the bosses at work was that we could all probably go between 2 and 4 tomorrow, so he was pretty sure it would be 2, but if it turned out I couldn't leave till 4 he apologised and would make it up to me. Someone else I spoke to at the desk who's worked there for years though said that the latest he's ever gone home on Christmas Eve was 1.30, so hopefully it will be earlier rather than later, but we'll see. It still feels weird to be going into work, briefly, when we're in the final few days before Christmas. As everyone left work on Friday they kept saying "have a good Christmas - you won't be in next week will you?", and it was one of the most depressing things I ever hear. Yes. Yes I will. And back in on Thursday and Friday. But that's life, I guess. And I'd quite like to go into Marks and Spencers tomorrow anyway, as mad as it will be, so it's not all bad. Still a weird thing to try to prepare for though, as I don't think I've ever worked Christmas Eve before.
Also, my mother is working tomorrow, so we won't really have a family Christmas Eve either when I get home, and she normally does a buffet/party food tea on Christmas Eve, so we're having that tonight. Which makes it feel even more like not-Christmas Eve. And she's been cleaning the house before Christmas - I swear we do more Christmas cleaning than spring cleaning - so I also need to change the sheets on my bed tonight. So much to do when I would like to just be relaxing. But hopefully it just means I can relax tomorrow, after getting home from work. When it's just me and my dad. We had an argument today where he just started yelling at me for something he's complained about before. So that should be fun, just me and him. I feel like I'll spend a lot of the night playing Red Dead Redemption. Which doesn't feel very Christmassy. But I do love Arthur Morgan.
I am a bit worried about Christmas to be honest, given what it was like last year. But my sister is less crazy this year, so hopefully that will also make the kids a bit calmer, and it will all be better. I'd prefer to not have to go back to work right after Boxing Day, even so, but I have to. So that's that.
I am still looking forward to Christmas though. Even with all the work and potential stress that comes with it. Genuinely.
Christmas whale.
I didn't get anyone any Christmas cards this year but I love you all.
It turns out I am working tomorrow. In fact, I'm going in early, because my manager is pretty convinced we'll go quite early in the afternoon, so he said it would be nice if the morning receptionist could go early too, which I didn't think of but is totally fair. So I'm going in for 10, which means I have to get up at 8, which means I have to have a shower tonight. Another thing on the to-do list. He also said that the best answer he could get out of the bosses at work was that we could all probably go between 2 and 4 tomorrow, so he was pretty sure it would be 2, but if it turned out I couldn't leave till 4 he apologised and would make it up to me. Someone else I spoke to at the desk who's worked there for years though said that the latest he's ever gone home on Christmas Eve was 1.30, so hopefully it will be earlier rather than later, but we'll see. It still feels weird to be going into work, briefly, when we're in the final few days before Christmas. As everyone left work on Friday they kept saying "have a good Christmas - you won't be in next week will you?", and it was one of the most depressing things I ever hear. Yes. Yes I will. And back in on Thursday and Friday. But that's life, I guess. And I'd quite like to go into Marks and Spencers tomorrow anyway, as mad as it will be, so it's not all bad. Still a weird thing to try to prepare for though, as I don't think I've ever worked Christmas Eve before.
Also, my mother is working tomorrow, so we won't really have a family Christmas Eve either when I get home, and she normally does a buffet/party food tea on Christmas Eve, so we're having that tonight. Which makes it feel even more like not-Christmas Eve. And she's been cleaning the house before Christmas - I swear we do more Christmas cleaning than spring cleaning - so I also need to change the sheets on my bed tonight. So much to do when I would like to just be relaxing. But hopefully it just means I can relax tomorrow, after getting home from work. When it's just me and my dad. We had an argument today where he just started yelling at me for something he's complained about before. So that should be fun, just me and him. I feel like I'll spend a lot of the night playing Red Dead Redemption. Which doesn't feel very Christmassy. But I do love Arthur Morgan.
I am a bit worried about Christmas to be honest, given what it was like last year. But my sister is less crazy this year, so hopefully that will also make the kids a bit calmer, and it will all be better. I'd prefer to not have to go back to work right after Boxing Day, even so, but I have to. So that's that.
I am still looking forward to Christmas though. Even with all the work and potential stress that comes with it. Genuinely.
Christmas whale.
I didn't get anyone any Christmas cards this year but I love you all.
(no subject)
Date: 2018-12-24 05:19 pm (UTC)