Saturday, December 20, 2008

Organizationally challenged

How does this happen every stinking year? I begin developing ideas and gift lists for Christmas long before Thanksgiving, and shop with mad abandon in the brief increments allowed in a schedule with a four-year-old around all the time.

Yet, here I am with less than one week till The Big Day, and I am still scrambling with loose ends. I need to pick up two gift certificates and a gift (hopefully) being held at a store down in Columbia. I need more gift bags and tissue. Heck, I need a few more gifts for The Mister, and I am plum out of ideas. It's the same story every time.

And now that both girls are done with school, and business meetings and Q4 planning still to be done, I have no effing idea when I'm going to get to these things. Not everything can happen after 8:30pm. If I'd only mapped out a plan for these recurring loose ends in advance, I wouldn't need all the tums in my cabinet. Consider me frowning in my own general direction.

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