Hoping all you peeps had a relaxing, quiet Christmas. Me, not quite. Even if you just had a run-of-the-mill boring one please let me assure you how privileged you have been.
My Christmases usually involve some drama, less self-induced these days than it used to be in the past. This year’s included….
- coming home pre-Christmas after a few days away laden with lurgy involving a full soak-the-bed fever each night for a week
- a 10pm Christmas eve throw-all-the-toys-out-of-the-pram meltdown by mother of 4 yr old leaving me to to do all Santa preparation because I wouldn’t get her presents out of her car. Exhausted and still very ill I got to bed around 3am just leaving sufficient time for a soak the bed sweat before dawn. Surely there are some circumstances where murder should be legal?
- 4 yr old’s mother taking her ” for 10 minutes” to visit friends on Christmas day. 2 hours later, when they haven’t returned and 7 calls to her mobile remain unanswered I track them down by car and eventually take my daughter to visit her grandparents and aunt (her uncle having already left due to the delay). Ditto the comment regarding legal grounds for murder.
- I gave my 80 yr old father the gift of lurgy so he could enjoy his Christmas too.
- spending days when I was supposed to be enjoying the holidays dealing with clients who couldn’t follow instruction or pick up the phone themselves (each of who knew well in advance I’d be on holiday)
- spending the last day and a half completing spreadsheets and the like because my boss sprung some unexpected ones on me immediately before going on holiday (and which had to be done in the time I’d allocated to do the normal reports).
I’ve supposedly been off for a week but can’t say I feel like I’ve had the benefit of it seeing as I’ve done work on 5 out of the 7 days and dealt with a headcase on the other 2.
If you can match or beat that I’d be interested to know.
BBB lets face it – looks like you’ve bottomed out – which is good – things CAN ONLY get better!
Reminds me of the optimist meeting the pessimist – pessimist says things cant get worse than this; optimist says oh yes they can!
Good to hear from you at least Bud, you have people who dont know you here but care about you.
Roger
eh……I had to put up shelving……that’s not the same at all is it?
Is the lurgy same as flu?
I think you should pick a two week period in January and do Christmas all over again. Just for you and mini-me. Don’t tell that one lady anything about it – which of course won’t be a problem if she can be legally snuffed.
I hope you are feeling much better…
here, happy new year old chap…..hope it works out better for you
Roger, I like your half full kind of half empty. Ta.
Manuel, no. Slightly worse.
Terri, try urban dictionary for lurgy. It’s a general term used for all manner of illness. Do you know any strychnine shops?
Manuel, thanks. And you.