Up and down and up and down...

Holidays are hard for me. Retail has a way of sucking it right out of you. Crabby people, hours all over the place, not enough cookies. But as I told my crew yesterday, we are in the home stretch. By the end of January, the huge trucks will be done for a while, and spring will have taken over the store, visually booting Old Man Winter and that hussy, Christmas, right out of every retail shoppers life.
Unfortunately, that goes hand in had with hour cuts and having to let people go. I failed to mention that part to my peeps, since they really need to concentrate on the next few weeks.

I am hoping Eli and I will wander into the woods Sunday and fetch a little tree. I want to be done with Xmas cards by then. My list is long, so I am going to have to prune it from 'want to send' to 'Most important' send. Life. I has it.

So far, the best part of the season has been my Christmas/joy lights. A new string of LED c7s that look somewhat like pinecones, except unnaturally colored for my viewing pleasure. Those puppies will stay up until the sun makes it pointless. So I should have several months of joy from them yet.

My DSL bill is going to get jacked up soon, so I will be canceling Netflix and my little monthly donation to greenpeace in the next month. Things are getting really tight money-wise for everyone. I know I am no different here. I need to seriously look into finding new and creative ways to save a little so I can continue to pay off my debts. I guess I will finally have to learn to cook. Le sigh!