I've been reading here and there that the holiday crap is starting up again for a lot of us. So I'm starting a vent thread for anyone who wants it.
Great idea, Marlene! Apparently, I had forgotten the ridiculous added stress that the holiday's can bring. For me, the worst of this stress results from things that occur or happen outside of my control.
Take this coming Christmas, for example:
Who would've thunk it, that in the last 20 min. not only did I trip and fall over a laundry basket in my basement and land sprawled out across the room, but moments later while carrying more 'x'mas stuff down to the basement, I nearly slipped, on my stockings, and could've easily have broken my back, given the type of fall I almost took. It was certainly a some real scare! It sucked! And, then I was so ticked off, for some absurd reasoning, I couldn't think straight enough to measure my distance between me and the walls and twice I banged into them. Now it would appear, I'm currently on overly prescribed medications or something; (which I haven't needed any medicine lately, or perhaps I've hit the bottle, (which couldn't be further from the truth.) The whole damn thing has me PO'd off.
What it is is frustration, lack of sufficient time and me feeling I must race around this house in order to accomplish what needs to get done before I leave to pick my children up in about 15 min.
Damn', it's too often a race against that clock. Especially, mornings and having to complete holiday forms and checks, gifts and such before we walk out into the land of ice, to head to school.
Marlene, I too need this vent thread!
I do not stop and stubbornly refuse to have a good day, months or longer, when there is chance of it, but I guess I forget how damn overwhelming holidays can, and often do become, and I get into the sorta' wishful thinking type bologne.
Oh' ya, great....Yippie, that's right, I also had to open my son's present in order to find the seriel # on it, in order to register it online, in order to fail to find the #, in order to call and wait several min. to speak to someone from the co. that I paid to protect it, in order to have them register me over the phone ...............and so I ended up registered twice, in the process discovered a cd' rom pckg.'d w/ product badly scratched if not cracked ....and then to be told, even if they don't have a single one on the shelf for an even exchange, don't call us, bc where you just bought it, they must be responsible. Never mind though that the protect. plan begins from purchase date.
I better get going. Glad this is a vent thread, bc that's exactly all I've just done - VENT. As I certainly didn't brush me teeth, or hair, or pretty up any to get ready to go out the door. (lol) As, you can see, I'm trying hard now to lighten up some and relax, after that pain in my arse' stress.
Stress..............grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Must'ntt forget anyone!................grrrr
Must'nt wrap one present more for one child then the next. ...............grr
Must make sure presents are of nearly equal value. .....gr
I'm beginning to feel a bit better, now!
