its beginning to look a lot like Christmas..

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apparently. Although I don't feel that Christmassy yet.

I've got my tree up, I've made and written my Christmas cards (even delivered one last night!), bought all my presents and wrapped most of them. But I still don't feel Christmassy.

Am working all this week, and then I'm off until 2nd January 2008. Which means I have 3.5 more days of stress to deal with before I can relax!

Plenty of stress to be dealing with as well, because of staff leaving and being ill, and stuff. Which is nice. And on Friday I'll have to organise cover for my holiday as well, because there are things I do every day that are essential and cannot be forgotten about, even though its Christmas (the joys of Treasury).

Fortunately, everything else can wait till I get back :-)

Christmas plans are not really afoot, although they currently include potentially socialising with black_faery and rhube, horrendously stressful Christmas food shopping in Tesco, two days of doing very little except eating very fine food (we are going to make a big pot of roast chicken broth, and we're boiling a ham and roasting a Turkey on Xmas Day, and there will be champagne breakfasts and posh chocolates and yummy things like that), some revision,  lots of telly, and muchos relaxing doing not very much.

No plans in place for new year celebrations, may well just do what we did last year, which was stay in and enjoy ourselves with wine and champagne and telly and games and things. Which was very nice indeed, even if I did break my thumb nail on the ice tray!

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Just a word of caution – if you choose to go to Tesco at 10pm in the mistaken assumption that this will be a quiet time, be warned – it will be like 11 a.m. on a Saturday except that there will be half the number of checkout staff, low stock on the shelves, virtually no fruit and veg and no stock to replace it til the following morning! Going at 0700 on Xmas Eve has many of the same problems. You will find yourself cursing, swearing, fighting to get parking and wondering why none of these other people have lives.

The best plan I ever found for Xmas food shopping was either to get the turkey in advance then go at about 2pm on Xmas Eve (the bargains are amazing!), or to find the smallest main Tesco (not Tesco Metro!) in your local area and go there, cos really, even a small Tesco has everything you need for a Xmas dinner, and the rest of the world will have gone to the superstore 3 miles down the road. You’ll be done before they’ve found a parking spot!

Plan C is to write a detailed list and make a man go. Somehow, even though they normally hate food shopping, they care less about crowds and queues.

I’m not cooking the dinner so am opting for Plan A and going after work on Xmas eve just to see what I can find :-)

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ah, plan c fails for us because Jamie absolutely hates crowds, he gets really claustrophobic!

we did our shopping on the 23rd last year, and it wasnt so bad. just need to plan it like a military operation!