i just wrote the same xmas letter literally SIX times because i'm a perfectionist and i think this gift giving and stereotypical holiday madness is getting to my brain...... plus i work in retail i think i'm pushing my self closer and closer to the edge of.....wanting....it to be idk......march already ehh heh heh

how are you guys all holding up ????

I only had enough stamps for a few cards, so i have a good 10 that are still sitting here, whoops lol

I dont work in retail anymore thank goodness, but i remember the days, the endless christmas music starting in Nov, the bitchy customers, one guy threw a drill at me because the price rung up "incorrectly" like, that could have seriously hurt me wtf

UM A DRILL ??? no thats neither holly nor jolly ???? yeah the radio at my abysmal retail wonderland is a little on the broken side ?? so all of our music sounds crackled and distorted, it's icing on the cake ehehe

oh that would drive me crazy!

I haven't had any really nasty customers like I did last year but some people have been rude and just annoying. :/ Mostly I'm just stressed at work because it's extremely busy and I'm spending most of my shifts helping customers rather than stocking. Management's been pretty good about it because most of them realize it's way too busy to get much done but still.

I only just got my Christmas tree up today and I still have to decorate it, it's artificial and 7.5ft tall so I have to have help fluffing it. Each time I've asked, it's been regarded as a massive chore to get it up. It's the 22nd! When I was a kid, we used to have the tree up by the first of December!

Forget the fact that my Christmas presents are unwrapped and I haven't gotten my Christmas boxes sent to my friends yet. I'm just... so done right now because I'm like the only one at home that gives a royal crap about Christmas. Again.

I'm supposed to visit some family from tomorrow til Monday but I seriously don't want to go. I don't like Christmas much :c /hides under a blanket

I have to work late shift over Christmas as it stands at the moment so I can just pretend there is no holiday season. whistles

I'm actually pretty excited about this year, which is nice for a change cuz the past three years I have been a total grinch for Christmas. Unfortunately I think it may be because this year I'm working and unable to travel to see family .__. It's stressful, ok?!

I have to work overnight shifts all weekend, so I feel ya. Yay holiday pay! Lol

highfive We are the true heroes.

I have off around New Year at least to make up for another lost Christmas. How about you?

I work a late shift, not overnight, on New Year's Eve. There will be drunk people everywhere but I guess it'll be nice to not be bothered by them all night long :P

Even though I don't celebrate holidays, I'm not exempt from getting time off. The four day weekend upon me is frightening, what am I supposed to do with 96 hours? I can only do so much house work or visit my siblings, then what? I did spend today shelling pecans for the ranch owners. But I only did that because I had no intention of going home early, but I gave them more than they asked for. Literally, nuts to them.

Oh, well...

Did you shell pecans for the animals? If so, I'm sure they love you for it!

Yes, but they get the shells to rummage through. The nuts are going to be made into pies. The owner's wife had been very impressed by my effort and wishes that I do that more often. I don't see why not. It'll be my pleasure.

I'm assuming they have horses and other farm animals? I hear sheep are mean. I always wished I grew up on a farm and maybe I wouldn't have allergies.

I wouldn't know about the shells, at my house I give the chickens the shells and shriveled nuts. On when the subject the pecans I've shelled for my cousin are close to finished. I know she'll use them for baking.