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| Thirteen Things about top tips for sanity in the holiday season
1. Buy yourself a chocolate filled Advent Calendar regardless of your faith so you can reward yourself at the end of each productive day.
2. Write holiday cards and mail on 12th. Realize that the last mailing date for Europe is the 11th.
3. Buy wrapping paper on sale in bulk. Realize once home that it is Wedding paper.
4. Splash out on an extravagant festive tree. On return realize it is too tall to be housed.
5. Stick to new rule that carelessly scratched DVD’s will not be replaced. Will power melts in the face of “Polar Express.”
6. Yield to whining children and buy cheapo stockings for the cats. Realize, once home, that they are for dogs.
7. Label your pies carefully before freezing, as mashed potatoes, vegetables and apple pie is unlikely to tickle the taste-buds.
8. It is a mistake to wrap and give a calendar to your spouse as a gift. It will be needed both before and during the holiday season, especially if your birthday falls in January.
9. Estimate how many days you can remain sane without a shower, then order the turkey. Write the shop’s name on the inside of your left wrist.
10. Draw up a fully comprehensive list of everything you need to buy from the supermarket for the feast well in advance. Do not leave the list anywhere near the paper shredder.
11. Do not wrap all presents and label later to save time. This only works if you have a photographic memory or x-ray vision.
12. Note that decorative wax apples, whilst festive, are also a health hazard unless you can guarantee 24/7 supervision of the fruit bowl.
13. Dig out the old spike so that you can keep all receipts from purchases until after the great day. After the great day when you note you have a houseful of rejected gifts, you can stab yourself in the forehead as a reminder against extravagance. Even if you are an abject failure, you did try, so scoff all the 24 chocolates in your Advent Calendar.
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Top tips to maintain sanity during the holiday season
http://whittereronautism.com/2008/12/top-tips-to-maintain-sanity-during-the-holiday-season/
Posted on December 17th, 2008.
Tagged : advent calendar, Thursday 13
December 18th, 2008 at 6:11 am
14. Read Maddy’s posts every day!
Love that someone besides me writes “notes to self” on self.
December 18th, 2008 at 7:49 am
I need to get me an advent calendar – or two!
December 18th, 2008 at 10:02 am
I meant to get an advent calendar to do with my kiddos this year – shucks!
December 18th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Ah yes. Reward myself at the end of each productive day. Uh-huh, I thought as I read.
Then I got to step 13 and was much reassured.
By the way, my letters/cards to Europe and Canada go out tomorrow. Heh.
December 18th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I try to hide from these kinds of things.
All the best from Jtg, curled up under the table, chewing on his wrist.
If he could somehow be teleported to Castle Argghhh! he might take his wrist out of his mouth and start disassembling the Degtyarev.
Sorry, inside joke at the Castle. Everyone should look in there, from time to time. Lotsa fun and erudite insights to be had at any time at that site, that is, http://www.thedonovan.com
December 19th, 2008 at 1:03 am
The only way I remember my notes to self are if I write them on my hand with a Sharpie. Then if I’m careful I can shower and pat that hand dry without washing of the note.
December 19th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
1. Check.
2. Wow, you got them done by the 12th? You rock.
3. Wedding paper works. Use red ribbon. Do not ask how I know this.
4. Aunt Esther and Uncle Fred (actually, my grandmother’s sister) one year bought a tree that was too big, so they cut two feet off of it. From the top.
5. We put our movies on the computer and play them in a set-up that feeds the computer to the TV. The DVDs get stored out of reach. Ain’t we fancy? (Was cheaper than replacing DVDs all the time).
6. Add some catnip. Cats won’t notice. The kids just want the chewy toys. Don’t ask how I know this, either.
7. My frozen pies are pre-labeled from Schwan’s. The only pies I actuall make are pumpkin ones.
8. We get 18-month calendars. Every year.
9. I can go nine days without a shower and live. Do not ask me how I know this, either.
10. Also do not lose said list. Or the one you make to replace the one you lost.
11. I wrap the presents in code. Joey gets food (gingerbread, candy canes, etc.), Andy gets Santas, JoeyAndyDad is in ornaments, Grandma is in angels. Then if the labels get forgotten, I still know whose is whose. Yes, I have an extensive wrapping paper collection, thanks.
12. We put real fruit in the fruit bowl. We used to go to the wholesale market to get a case of orange, apples, grapes, and clementines each Christmas; now we grace the produce section at Giant.
13. My mom laughed at me today as I carefully placed all the receipts and packing slips from gifts in a manila folder. The day after Christmas, she will laugh again as I tear the house apart looking for the lost folder.