Holiday fail... again

I really tried today. Well, I kinda tried. Maybe. Okay, I didn't try very hard. But I did try.


Try what? I tried to get into the holiday spirit today, that's what. But I came up short, just like every other time I try to get into it.


Last weekend I thought I had finished my holiday shopping. I had done some of my shopping online this year, thereby limiting my dealings with the psycho holiday shopping horde.


This morning I told myself I was going to get all my presents wrapped. But I needed to do laundry first. Then I wanted to do a little work on the kitchen remodel. Then it was time for lunch.

Finally, I got my pile of holiday purchases together. I got my wrapping paper, tags, tape, scissors, and other stuff together. I cranked up some holiday tunes starting with some Bing Crosby.


I got my list out and started verifying that I had everything. Sure enough, one of the items I had purchased online hadn't arrived yet. I got online and tried to check the shipping status, but couldn't get complete data... just an estimated delivery date of December 8th - 13th. Yes, today was the 10th... cutting it close there Amazon.


Okay. I'll just have to wait on that item and wrap that gift later.


I continued looking over the list. I had purchased some cookies from Cheryl's here in Columbus to give out to the sibs. Of course I had eaten about a third of the cookies since I bought them last weekend. I didn't have enough left to fill the gift boxes I had purchased.


I got my jacket on, turned off Bing, and headed to Cheryl's to get replacement cookies.


A little more than an hour later I got back home, turned Bing back on, ate a couple cookies (Oops!), and took another look at my list. I decided to start at the top of the list and start wrapping the gifts sequentially.


For the first person on the list, I had gotten a few small to medium sized items. I thought I could put all the items in a single box and wrap that... but I couldn't find a box that would work.


I got my jacket back on, turned off Bing, and headed to Big Lots to look at gift boxes.


Forty minutes later I got back home, put on a different holiday CD (a compilation of various artists, like Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Lou Rawls, etc.), and placed the items in the gift box. It was too big. I had to cut it down. I got my scissors and some packing tape and fabricated a different sized box from the one I started with.


Finally, after twenty minutes of screwing around, I wrapped the gift.


My holiday energy was fading so I decided to take a break from wrapping gifts, although I had only successfully wrapped one gift.


I put on my jacket, turned off the holiday tunes, and went outside. I fiddled with the old V-Dub, got it started, and ran a couple errands.


I got back home maybe 90 minutes later. I decided to NOT put the holiday music back on. I wrapped a second gift with much less effort than the first, but my holiday energy was gone.


I decided to take a nap.


I woke up and it was dark, heck, it was nearly 11pm and my Saturday was shot.


I'll try to wrap most of the remaining presents tomorrow, but I've already got a long list of other things that I'd rather do. I can't put it off much longer, since the fam is getting together next weekend. Maybe my holiday energy will come back tomorrow (or really later today since it is after 2am as I type this), but I doubt it. Holiday fail, again. No surprises here.