Somewhere on my desk...

...is the To Do list I wrote...Thursday, I think.

I'm pretty sure the PROmote-related things on it are done. I remember a few things on it that aren't done: Christmas cards (I've only sent two so far, both to clients) and prezzie-wrapping/packages to family scattered from Georgia to northern Indiana and a few other packages going further afield. As I said to a client on Thursday afternoon, "This is why there are Twelve Days of Christmas."

But there were a lot of things on that list. Many more than I'm remembering right now.

If cleaning my desk wasn't already on the list, I think it just got promoted.

HoHoHo!

Fabulous Fiestaware!

For all Michigan State faculty, staff, students, and alums and especially for the same at the UofM. Okay, Ohio State folks, you should watch, too.

Fiestaware Fight. (Goes to public Facebook page so even people like me can see it.)

With a tip o'the link hat to my sister. Thanks, Sue!

Signs of the season

The following is still amusing me 3.5 days after I received it, so I figured I'd share it with you:

"Due to an acute case of December, the [event] is being postponed from 12/22 to 12/29.

"Same time 3:00-5:00PM

"Hope you all have lovely holidays!"

Yep, "an acute case of December" describes my current state perfectly. Now, if only I could squeeze another week in here....

That said, I'm doing what I always do with Christmas: I'm focusing on enjoying it. I enjoy what I do, and I do what I enjoy. Over the past several months, I enjoyed shopping for the presents that I would have liked to have shipped, oh, that missing week ago, but I'm not fretting that they're not yet wrapped let alone shipped. No worries, "that's just the way it is here." I am extremely resistant to letting obligation have a voice in my holiday plans and activities. I do what's enjoyable any given year and eschew things and emotions that are likely to take away from that joy. It's my utterly selfish approach to Christmas and I make no apologies for it.

However, I would enjoy having an additional week slipped in between now and next Wednesday.

Happy, happy. Merry, merry. See you on the Funway.