Saturday 3 January 2009

Christmas holiday jobs

It's amazing how every Christmas holiday follows the same pattern: 
  • Finish work in blaze of effort, and spend 2 days slumped, gazing at unwrapped presents, and wondering how everything is ever going to get done
  • Gird loins enough to go to Sainsbury's - however, once you arrive at the till you realise that while you have budgeted for all the pressies, you forgot the food bill.  And if by some miracle you remembered the food bill, it will be doubled by the bottles of wine/gin/port which you just "must" have over the holidays.  To be fair, this didn't happen this year - we used three years' worth of Nectar vouchers to do the shopping, and since I'm up the proverbial duff the alcohol bill was very low.  Although a bottle of port did slip its way in!
  • Christmas Eve arrives and things start getting exciting....
  • Following the festivities, the urge to do those end of year jobs creeps in somewhere around December 29th.  By which time you have forgotten the day of week, and, if things have gone particularly well, also your name. 
I'm now into full Christmas jobs mode, having been warming up for the last few days.  Today was a peak day, in which I:
  • Did all of the filing from the last three months
  • Emptied the desk drawers, re-arranged them, and even now have one which is half empty
  • Emptied contents of chest of drawers in unborn child's bedroom, and allocated some to the loft, some to other cupboards, and lots to the bin and the charity shop
  • Emptied wardrobes in spare room and put stuff back in such a way that there are no avalanches when you try to get something out
  • Went to Focus to buy a new radiator shelf which husband put up, and which now holds all his PSP, PS3, XBox and Wii games.  How many consoles can one grown man own?  Well, more than this given half a chance - looks like the PS2 is departing the house, since the games he wants to keep can all be played on the PS3.  One down.....!
  • Worked with husband to put up new clock (a gift from last Xmas which has been in the box ever since!) and pinboard in the spare room to create an office corner.
I think that'll do for one day, except that I have one further thing to do this evening, which is to write the thank you cards.  For Isabel, not for myself you understand.  One of the real banes of having children - next year I'll have to write two sets, oh hooray.      

 

1 comment:

  1. I distinctly remember helping with a few of those jobs, and the answer to how many consoles can a grown man have? is as many as are released! as i am sure you may have heard me say before "there is always room for more"

    ReplyDelete