And it doesn't show signs of stopping. Where's the three wise men when you need them?

[clo_again]

Oh dear. Thought "I am completely disorganised for Christmas this year; I shall fix this beginning with a Christmas-themed LJ layout!" Then I spent an hour doing the layout (which is not what I pictured; the wrapping paper I scanned for it has bright silver horses but would they scan silver, would they hell) and ended feeling pleased with myself. So pleased that I rewarded myself with an hour nap since I only had about three hours sleep last night (I've rediscovered that I only really write well between 11:30pm and 4am, which is not conducive to getting up for work at 6am) until 10:15pm. Woke up at 10:44pm, went "Excellent! I have only slightly overslept and shall now do useful things!"

And promptly went back to sleep until 1am. You may be sensing a reason here as to why I'm not Christmas-organised at all.

So yes. So far I have sent no UK Christmas cards. This is a terrible situation and I plan to try to fix it, at least a little bit, tomorrow morning since I'm back to working half-days Tuesdays and Thursdays (yet I get paid for the whole day. Have I mentioned before that this job is marvellous?) and should have time, unless I stay up until 4am again. I actually fell asleep on my desk in work tody for a few minutes, so I really probably shouldn't.

Thankfully my immediate boss is all kinds of lovely and woke me up with Christmas chocolate cake and gingerbread. No, really. I am going to miss this job. Especially the money, since I seem incapable of saving; I really must save every extra penny between now and when I finish on Jan 7th to do...I don't know. Something. Not stalk the cute post boy around the hospital anymore, I suppose. D-: It's all I've done for about four months now! What will I do!

Except you know, he lives in my village. So that may prove handy.

So yes, life and such continues to happen to me. We had beautiful snow last week, enough that I took a day off work (oops, moneywise) and they're predicting more for Thursday/Friday which is marvellous, except I really can't miss any more days and will be dragging myself through the blizzards regardless. Then Saturday I have to venture into the manic last-minute shopping crowds to do my manic last-minute shopping. It's entirely possible that I won't make it out alive but I'm inclined not to trust Amazon at this date, especially with all the knock-on effect problems they've had from last week's snow.

Sigh. Remember the days when Christmas wasn't stressful? Yeah. That was good.

That said, I just found the Top Gear Christmas Special teaser on Youtube and frankly, I think it will make up for every single instant of stress...IN THE WORLD. (There are two episodes. TWO. I THOUGHT THERE WAS ONLY ONE. :DDDDD) HERE:

And the Doctor Who special is looking great. And I still have all my Christmas movies to watch. And I'm about four days behind on my advent calendar, so I'm going to do something about that before I sleep.

Hello Christmas. Maybe you're not so bad after all (now please let that cold snowy weather hang around until the 25th again this year please. Let it snow!)

Comments

[mayakittenreads]

So looking forward to Who! Found the trailer yesterday. It's airing on Boxing Day her. I'll be in Melbourne but plan to set the DVD recorder just in case.

[clo.livejournal.com]

Me too! It does look to be good this year. :D Definitely set DVD recorder; I'd do anything not to miss Christmas 'Who. It's a proper Christmas tradition in our house now. :)

[mayakittenreads]

Being as I only got into Who last year (was it really so recently?!) I haven't actually seen a Christmas ep at Christmas yet. I somehow managed to miss The End of Time last year.

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

TWO EPISODES WHAT?????????????? OH MY GOD (AKA NOVAK DJOKOVIC APPARENTLY) THIS WILL BE EPIC.

[clo.livejournal.com]

I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW. I FLAILED LIKE EPIC WHOA. AND THEY GO TO NEW YORK IN THE FIRST ONE. THEY MAY HAVE MADE MY CHRISTMAS.

(Ahahahaha, I love how in the space of an afternoon we've deified Novak Djokovic. HE WOULD DEFINITELY APPROVE.)

*Only has this entirely inappropriate Top Gear icon what.

[kindoftrouble.livejournal.com]

OH MY NOVAK IS THAT THE ONE WHERE THEY GO TO NYC?????? THEY WERE FILMING IN BROOKLYN LIKE TWO WEEKS AFTER WE WERE THERE IT IS SO UNFAIR HELEN.

(I think we should start saying oh my Novak. For a start, it's hilarious, and also, he should be deified. I will never apologise for being bored on that conference call. Hilarious things came out of it!)

That is so innapropriate! Fail!

[clo.livejournal.com]

I KNOW IT IS TOTALLY UNCOOL OF THE UNIVERSE TO ORGANISE IT THAT WAY. ALTHOUGH IT WOULD BE MORE ANNOYING IF THEY WERE THERE AT THE SAME TIME AND WE DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL AFTER.

(We definitely need to do that. People will be confused but then, they're usually confused by us. ^_^ THAT BOREDOM GAVE ME ROGER IN A BLACK TOGA. WITH DEVIL HORNS. SO WORTH IT.)

I know! Total fail. Although yours shows them failing just as much but in a positive, not oh-cock way! Must get more Top Gear icons.