no time to do anything this year? it was unavoidable...

[acroyear]

I think the real hassle is the fact that the 2 holidays (Christmas and new years, always a week apart) are cursed this year to both being on weekends. this basically has killed 2 weekends in december that are now committed to being with family and long-standing traditions for those days that in other years can be used to stretch out the pre-holiday season.

normally we have 4 weekends in december before Christmas. this year, only 3. normally there's a weekend between Christmas and new years for additional parties and hanging out. this year, none.

quite literally, there really ISN'T any time.

the only way out is to make time by telling your work to go stuff it and taking a sanity day or two in the middle of the week (when nobody else is being productive either).  however, to really enjoy that day, you and whomever you choose to do this with all need to have bosses that'll allow it and suddenly what should be a day off becomes a bureaucratic hassle in trying to coordinate it all and it does nothing to relieve the stresses we're already feeling.

we're not putting up decorations at all this year.  we don't have the time and there's no way we can get to them with the garage in its annual winter stuffed mode (and it being too damn cold to even be out there for 5 minutes to work around it).

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[fiona64.livejournal.com]

we're not putting up decorations at all this year.?

We put up the outside lights, but that was it. No tree, no decorations around the house, nothing. It's made life a lot easier ...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

outside's worse than inside. if i'm not willing to freeze for 5 minutes to get the garage in condition to even open the attic to get to the crap, i'm not going to freeze for 2 hours, in the dark (since weekend daytimes are booked) to wire the house up.

we lit up the house our first year. the lights didn't come down until may.

shows what kind of time we have to spare...

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

But at least it was warm when you took the lights down!

Doc

actually...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

it was cool, windy, and about to rain, but it was the only day we had left before our memorial day vacation to california...

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

We have a tiny 14-inch tree. We forgot to take it down last year because stuff got piled in front of it. The cats are taller than it is. I guess we need to plug it in and put it on top of presents.

Doc

[theshaggyfreak.livejournal.com]

Kate and I haven't put up any decorations either. I've been either too tired or too depressed considering all that's been going on with us. I'll wait till we get to Disney World to enjoy the holidays I think.

[cozit.livejournal.com]

Aw, crud! It's only *just* occurred to me that that means I have to be in DC for part of the afternoon of the 1st... Smithsonian's open as far as I know...