And what have you done?
Well personally I’ve managed to:
- Wrap the few presents I’m getting people that require wrapping (thank Yoda for gift cards and third party gift services);
- Achieve my “miracle a week” at work in a record 3 day working week;
- Not gone completely mental at the supermarket while doing my grocery shopping, despite the pushing and shoving over the last 10 punnets of strawberries (all of which I decided were too inferior for a $6.95 per punnet price tag);
- Done a mad dash to the supermarket after work today to get enough meat for the cats over Christmas (they threatened to kill me in my sleep if they had to subsist on dry food alone);
- Vowed to never again agree to host Christmas at my house;
- Decided that it really does not matter if you don’t have matching table cloths, napkins and plastic plates and cutlery, only to find that virtually everyone else I know disagrees with this;
- Resolved that it’s my house and my rules so other people’s opinions on whether blue, purple and red plates are appropriately Christmassy really do not matter;
- Counselled my bestie who was having a pre-Christmas crisis of whether or not people should be allowed to socialise around her brand new lounge suite when food and beverages are close at hand;
- Prepared the fruit platter, peeled, chopped and washed vegies in preparation for burning murdering roasting tomorrow;
- Decided that 2kg of roast beef, a whole leg of ham, a stuffed turkey breast roll and several kilos of prawns is probably enough meat for 8 people and I do not need to cook a corned beef “just in case”.
Cats....they hate karaoke too!
Honestly, it’s a wonder anyone gets out of the Christmas season with their sanity still intact. The big day is tomorrow and no doubt you will be surrounded by family and/or friends (whether you like it or not) to mark its passing. No doubt you will get at least one gift that makes you scratch your head and wonder what on earth you’re going to do with it. And I strongly suspect, you’ll feel like going into the toilet or some other room where you pray no one can find you and quietly scream to yourself and wonder whether anyone will notice if you stay in there for the next 8hrs or however long it is until they all go home (or you can go home to yours).
Whatever Christmas holds for you tomorrow, have a fantastic day, enjoy it and be thankful that it comes but once a year. Merry Christmas folks!
But then it occurred to me….it need not be all that bad. They still taste good! They just look kind of wrong. So I introduce to you a new form of cooking – fail cooking! Isn’t that great? Now everyone can share their home made cooking because the object is for it to look as bad as possible! I have a feeling I’m going to be very good at this. 
