2005-12-24

dragonlady7: self-portrait but it's mostly the DSLR in my hands in the mirror (piparkukas)
2005-12-24 08:41 am

nearly better

I am so far behind on everything I don't know where to start.

I wound up working in the Club yesterday. Why? Well, three people had called off, and if this is an indicator of how things will be over the holiday there are certain of my coworkers who I will hunt down and kill. It is extremely selfish to call in sick on a holiday. It means other people have to stay late. And that makes me angry.
But I digress.
I actually chose to stay in the Club rather than displace the girl junior to me, because it was dead everywhere.
Nobody is flying this Christmas.
If they are, they are not flying through Buffalo.
The whole airport is freakishly deserted.

So I had a nice time sitting in the club, and I wrote out the Five Holiday Traditions meme in a very long and obviously over-nostalgic way, since I will be missing out on all five of them this year. It's seriously like 1500 words, and I'll post it a bit later.

I came home and was less tired than I would've been if I hadn't sat down for most of my shift, so I embarked with gusto upon wrapping my presents and so on. But of course I hit a snag: I got all these people cocktail shakers with the idea of putting a bartending manual inside them, and I simply haven't finished writing the bartender manual. I think I'll be doing a quick handwritten version at work today, hm? Just a couple recipes, bound with a staple, to sit in there.

And then: Somehow between tonight and tomorrow I have to find the time and the privacy to come up with an idea for the gift-decorating contest. The theme is Pantry and I've no fucking clue. I also have no materials, and no real engineering talent, to speak of. So probably around 1 am I'll be out there with my duct tape and some like brown paper bags or something... Whatever it is also has to withstand the journey down the street, so it's got to fit in a car. Hm.
Eh well.
Who needs sleep?

At least we got the piparkukas done, yesterday. Barely-- I threw the last batch in the oven and sprinted out the door to catch my bus, leaving Z to deal with them. But he was all right, and only burned the last ones a little. :) There are several shaped like buffalo. I am very proud of this. However, now I feel the need for a woolly mammoth cookie cutter, and have no idea where to find one...
dragonlady7: self-portrait but it's mostly the DSLR in my hands in the mirror (bluefairy)
2005-12-24 09:49 am

hm

My website is down and I've no idea why. Dave's is not down, and he has the same server and same domain registrar. I have not the time to investigate: I must go to work, sort of now-ish.

Leaving all that unpleasantness behind, I instead present to you the Five Holiday Things meme, which I composed during a nostalgic and eversoslightly weepy two-hour stretch of boredom relaxation in the Club.

Five Holiday Traditions )
dragonlady7: self-portrait but it's mostly the DSLR in my hands in the mirror (MAMMOTH!)
2005-12-24 06:41 pm

wow

Could I be in a worse mood right now?
I really don't think I could.
I'm trying to imagine myself in a worse mood, but I can't.
(For the record, I have actually been trying to get myself into a better mood by power of imagination all day and it hasn't done a fucking milligram of good, so I went the other way and tried to play the But I Could Be Worse game and, well, sort of, er, lost.)

Merry fucking Christmas and for the love of God somebody have a good Christmas on my behalf or something. But don't tell me about it, because it'll probably just make me jealous. Just do it, and quietly, somewhere else, and maybe later I'll try to find the warm fuzzy secondhand glow when I'm not in such a terrible mood.


Am going to change my clothes and steel myself for an evening spent in the company of Z's family, who are wonderful people but have razor-sharp wits that they do not hesitate to use at my expense, which combined with the fact that I am feeling rather fragile, makes for a somewhat dangerous evening to which I am looking forward with a bit of trepidation.

I'll probably be up most of the night working on my stupid fucking Kringle wrapping job too.

NYARGH. Bad mood intensifying! House is a wreck! I have nothing to wear! Hair's a mess! Cats and dogs! Living together! End of the world!

And there's a big goose-egg on my forehead from when I smacked my head into the door yesterday in a vain attempt at living life like a human being.

I FAIL AT LIFE. OH THE TRAUMA.

Hold me, Internet.