The Lack of Shopping, Baking and Sewing

I have no excuse for the predicament I find myself. My Christmas Shopping and Holiday Baking is not done. In fact, it has not really started. Somewhere in November I found the time to spend my AmericanExpress Reward points on most of the children in my life. And my darling favorite little boy, Max, will be getting his Bruin football. However, other than that, nothing has really been accomplished.

To be completely honest, I do work full time and go to school and school consisted of a treacherous research project and I felt I could not attend to the holidays until it was complete. (run on sentence on purpose) But now it is all coming full steam ahead, which of course means, I am sick. Luckily it is not too bad, but all I want to do is sleep.

And yet my kitchen and sewing machine beckon. Plus I feel as if my shopping woes may have been solved. I saw an ad where you can buy 30 different gift cards at Vons and Pavillions. I still plan to be as creative as possible, but using the not so real excuse of finals will have to suffice this year.

I have also discovered a festive and easy recipe to make the baking go quickly and I will sew all the flannel in my fabric arsenal and the holiday runners may actually be completed as well.

I love Christmas, but this year I am finding it hard to find true joy in the season. Dropping toys at the Union Rescue Mission helped, soy peppermint mochas from Starbucks help and I believe finding my roommate the much needed perfect jeans may help and I will even make the drive over Laurel Canyon to the Grove if necessary.

I really want to find my Festive Self and soon. Hopefully once I calm down I will once again be able to string coherent words together in sentences and maybe even pararaphs.

I refuse to be a bah humbug person.

Ranting and Solutions

People say they don't like hearing people complain, but what they really mean most of the time is, they dislike people who complain and never have a solution.

However, I am one of those people who always has a solution to go along with the ranting. Problem is, people don't like know-it-alls. My unique problem is most of the time I am right and I do have the best solution.

The next problem is other people don't like to be wrong or in the politically correct world we live in, they don't like being not right enough. So, I trudge through the mind fields each and everyday at work, at home, with friends, etc. Sometimes people truly want the best solution, but those are such rare occasions I mark them on my calendar. Most people just love to rant and complain.

My next problem, people assume I am one of those people. I'm not! I want things to be the way I want them because that would be best. Now to balance out what might be deemed control freak behavior, some things I don't care one way or another about and some things I don't know enough about. In those instances I still want solutions, but those solutions will require others with knowledge to speed up the process.

This is my PC rant on the frustration I am feeling in my work place today, so no specifics can be written. Just know this is one of those times where I am ranting and solving, but to no avail. She will do what she must and I can not control each and every situation.

Yea Right!