Happy Holidalies

Prompt: Holiday music: essential part of the season, or ‘no way, it makes my ears bleed’? Depends on the year and the situation. When I worked a retail job, I head nonstop Christmas music coming over the store speakers nonstop from Thanksgiving to New Years. If Whammageddon had been a thing back then, I would have […]

No Prompt I think I’ve got some blogging burnout because the brain isn’t spitting out words. Or the fact that I’ve been working on the same problem for the last three days, and someone just now has pointed out the error in the data that I had no way of knowing about. For something that has

Prompt: Share your best advice for surviving the holiday season. Although with how frazzled I am at the moment, I’m not sure it’s really working. First of all, lists. I have a gift list I add things to throughout the year. A lot of my friends are out of the area, so I do a

No official prompt – What’s the most unusual you’ve received? So far this year’s contender is a truffle D20.  Which, of course, arrived without telling me who was the gifter. There was no packing list and it was shipped directly from the manufacturer. Fortunately, my pool of suspects was relatively small, so I figured it out quickly.

No Prompt So today I was reminded of the importance of owning your own website over relying on social media for your primary presence. I stopped updating my Twitter feed in November after a certain announcement and have quietly scrubbed it from my website. I didn’t delete my account since I thought there was a

No Prompt It hit me today that we are a week out from Christmas, and I have so much to do. A lot of it has to do with getting the house cleaned and the presents wrapped. No matter how. Much time I try to give myself, I always seem to run behind. Yes, this

No Prompt Amazon’s shipping time lies. I needed to order a gift for a friend. I figured I’d still be okay at this point in the game, and everything on the product pages said they would be there by next Sunday. Or at least until I swapped the address to my friend’s. Every single thing said

No Prompt I hate gift wrapping. Mind you, I enjoy taking wrapping off presents. Putting it on, not so much. I don’t have a talent for crisp corners or placing strips of tape neatly parallel to a straight cut edge. I inevitably cut the paper half an inch short, despite measuring it three times. So

No Prompt Remember that thing I said a few days ago for about time management? Well, it was a busy day at work, and this is all I have in me to write. Catch you tomorrow.

Prompt: Holiday decorations – yay or nay? Do you go all out? Yay, but with a bit of restraint. I have three cats. Three half Maine Coon cats. There large fluff balls who don’t understand the word no and love to be up high.  So a free-standing tree is out of the question. We have