dragonlady7

upon reflection, my posts have, of late, been titled with whatever noise I have made while attempting to speak. Which I imagine is getting monotonous.

I had a good night last night, in that Susan the waitress helped combat my ADD and keep me on track serving people. At the end, Chris P. showed up, and then Dave and Corey did too, and that made my night and added about 10% onto my sales and tips for the evening. It was a slow night. And at the very end, Shannon the waitress who trained me for a while showed up, drunk, after a Christmas-cookie party the rest of the waitresses had gone to... So at closing, a whole crowd of people came out the door with me.
And I netted a reasonable amount in tips, so I am back in the black by... four dollars.

Dave has told me not to repay him until after Christmas, or to repay him in gifts instead. And that suits me ok.
He got a new suit yesterday, because he decided that should be his Christmas gift request from his mom. Which was a good idea. He can't exactly buy one off the rack, and he'll never get around to getting one otherwise-- the old one 'will do' endlessly and endlessly. Not even my sister getting married, or his father dying, or innumerable formal occasions were enough for him. So, the tailor's rebuilding the pants from scratch, because a 32 waist was the smallest they had in a 36 length, and Dave's a 29 waist. (God.)

I have to work at 11. Until 7. Pro: Need the money. Con: Will never, never, never, never have time for both Katy's Christmas present and the piparkukas. I need about 4 more hours to print the rest; I need a full day to make the cookies. I want to go this Friday and Saturday to my parents' so I can drop off my gifts for them and pick up their gifts for me, and give them cookies.
This Friday and Saturday are the only two days together that I have off between now and New Year's.

But I haven't had time to Christmas shop either. So I have no gifts to drop off. And I haven't had time to make cookies. So I have no cookies to give them. So I shouldn't bother going. But if I don't go, I won't get any Christmas presents from them. So ...

It's a dilemma. And I miss my mommy. But anyway. Working during the holidays sucks. I've actually never done it before. I've always either quit my job or taken leave time because I've never actually lived at home while working at that season. (This still isn't 'home' but it's dave's 'home' so... it's as close as i'll get unless Troy gets a whole hell of a lot cooler suddenly.)

So... do I stay or do I go? Do I stay here and use Friday and Saturday to get my crap together, to buy everyone gifts (though I still won't have enough money) and to bake cookies and to send out packages?
Or do I go home, visit my mom and dad, see their tree, drink their booze, and get the presents they're giving me?

I don't really know.

I'd thought about getting up this morning and making either cookies or more of Katy's present. But. I tried waking up at 6 and my body said 'you fell asleep at 2. forget it, woman.' So now it's 8:30, I have to leave at 10:30, I have to shower, and it takes an open-ended hour to roll out a batch of piparkukas. Also, in an hour I couldn't print more than three pages.

Sigh. Not enough time. I don't have my decorations up and I haven't mulched my garden and given that it's 20 F and we've 2 inches of snow, it's probably too late-- my little bulbs are probably all dead and frozen. But it was in the 40s all last week! I was told not to mulch until after a hard frost and we didn't have one! Bah. I suck as a gardener.

Maybe if I start now I can get the Christmas lights up. Except I can't find my spare bulbs. Muh...