I just can't do it. The more I tidy and clean and try to put things away the more the mess just explodes out of every corner. I don't know where all this paper comes from, all the random shit that is just strewn everywhere.
We don't have a Christmas tree yet, we don't have decorations up. I made plans for us to go to a Santa Claus parade and it was lame. I set things up for us to make and colour paper snowflakes and it just put us to sleep.
I just now got back from Michaels (art store). I went with a mission to pick up some extra supplies to make another mosaic garden tile (just some more powdered cement and glass bits), leather strips, some beads and some rings to make bookmarks, and some red, white and green Hama beads. Couldn't find the right rings or leather strips for the bookmarks, got completely overwhelmed by all the beads, couldn't find the Hama beads and got pissed off because the mosaic set we bought for $30 a week ago is now $20. The extra powdered cement is $10 and teeny single-coloured bags of stained glass are around $7. I would have spent WAY more than $20 to pick up what I wanted to, so I just bought a different shaped mosaic set. Then I wanted to buy some glass pebbles because this set I was buying didn't have them and the other one did. $5 for a bag of 25 little rocks. Luckily I went down a different aisle closer to the front of the store where they had LARGE bags of these SAME stones for $3. What. The. Hell.
I hate being a consumer. I hate having to buy stuff. I hate how I know I'm getting ripped off everytime I go into a store, and if it seems like it's a good deal, then it's probably because what I'm buying was made in a 3rd-world sweat shop.
So I'll be going back to Michaels at some point and I didn't go to another 2 stores I wanted to go to because it was just me and LB and frankly it's getting exhausting heaving her in and out of the car, and I know I'm not supposed to do it. But today is Tomek's morning to sleep in (yes, he's still sleeping... but since he averages 4-5 hours of sleep per night during the week, I think he's got every right to sleep till 1 p.m. if he wants).
I want to buy a Christmas tree today. Me and my fixation with having a real tree. It means we have to empty all of Tomek's work stuff out of my full trunk and back into his car before we go. Total hassle.
I just feel like taking every bit of clutter within eyesight and throwing it all in a big garbage bag and heaving it off the balcony.
Oh and a c-section is imminent I found out on Thursday. So that's freaking the hell out of me. But I don't have a chance to actually let my feelings out because I'm supposed to be filled with Christmas CHEER.
Bah humbug.
Saturday, December 08, 2007
No more Christmas spirit
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2 comments:
Yes, sometimes making something home-made is much more expensive (money and time wise) than just buying the damn thing. I'm glad you found the less expensive stones, and hope you find some other bargains in your next adventure.
If you need to vent/talk about the c-section, let me know. As you know, I've been there, done that, and going to do it again.
Both of my children were born by C-section. While I can not speak from personal experience, I was in the room as it was happening. It really isn't anything to worry about.
As for having clutter all over the place, we just moved in and we are still finding homes for all of the things we brought with us, so at the moment our house is in quite a mess.
We host our families for brunch on Christmas day, and we also have our New Year's Party on December 30th. Christmas has a more forgiving crowd of about 12, our New Year's party usually has around 30 people. We're not even sure if there is enough time between now and then to get the house in order. Oh well, what can we do but do our best?
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