Judecorp.

Never fill in a bunch of friends/relatives into those "Birthday Reminder" e-mail thingers. Because then you'll get a million reminders about your late father's upcoming birthday. And really, who needs that?

We were supposed to go to Mindy's holiday party today but we never quite got around to doing everything we needed to do in the morning/early afternoon so we could go. I spent a good chunk of time in the morning chiseling the huge-ass hunks of ice out of the parking spot so we have a nice clean area for the car, but by the time it got to be that "we should seriously start getting things together if we're going to that party" time, we still hadn't done anything else we were supposed to do, like pick up Jen's dry cleaning or wrap holiday gifts or write out more holiday cards or get a Christmas tree. So we decided to skip the party instead of figure out how to frantically get this stuff done when we got home. Plus, we were in terrible moods which doesn't really make for good party-going. So, bummer.

I realized today that two of the holiday gifts I ordered online must have gotten lost in the mail, since the website said they were shipped on 12-01 and the USPS tracking number came up as a bad number. So I had to talk to customer service and they have to put a trace on my package, which takes up to 10 business days, so I had to cancel the damned order because those lost items needed to be wrapped and mailed to NJ and SC. So now we have to find new gifts at a store somewhere so we can start mailing out these packages. Also bummer.

I did so many more holiday cards while watching "A Very Brady Christmas" that the pen/marker I was using is completely dried out. Sucks, cause I still have more cards to do. I found all of the received cards from last year and so many freaking people moved that I don't know what I'm going to do. I found a couple of people's updated addresses on LJ but I don't really have the energy to go on an address hunt. After the cards I cleaned up a little bit and then started making a big vat of chili to take to Coworker Gina's tomorrow for the Survivor finale. Jen started the laundry so there's not so much to do tomorrow, because tomorrow's shaping up to be a day of pain:

Get up early, put the crock pot of chili on, run to some store or other looking for replacement gifts. Go to RI - wipe dad's computer clean, bring monitor and TV to grandparents' house for them, bring china to grandparents' house for storage, load car full of more of my/dad's stuff that is coming to live here, tidy up a little more in preparation for estate folks, visit with grandparents briefly, run back up to Boston to get chili and stuff together, go to Gina's, come home and finish laundry.

This is definitely a "Bah Humbug" holiday season for me.