The good news?  I'm officially on vacation and don't go back to work until January 6th!!

The bad news? I have soooo much Christmas shopping left to do and I'm running out of time to do it. 

When people find out how behind I am on shopping, they always say, "Oh, do it all online!" Well, if you're as last minute as I am, that doesn't exactly work. That whole shipping in time for Christmas thing, I'm past all shipping deadlines. And this cheapskate isn't gonna pay $20+ just to have something shipped in a couple days. Am I right? 

I should have my gifts wrapped and enjoying my vacation starting now. Instead, I'm gonna be running around from store to store, fighting crowds and making all kinds of promises to do it differently next year. But the truth is, I'm such an indecisive person and procrastinator that I know things may never change! I can't even tell you how many times I saw something at Target or on Etsy over the past few months, that I thought so-and-so would like but I could never commit. And that's the kind of b.s. that gets me where I am today. (And to add to it, I desperately needed my bonus from work to help us out with our shopping and I didn't get it til 2 weeks ago.)

So there's my big old excuse. I suck at Christmas this year, per usual. Thankfully I at least put up decorations! I'll be posting pictures of that stuff soon - just as soon as I get in the last of my two stocking orders, because of course I waited til the last minute to get our stockings. At least you know what to expect of me ;)

Shopping with my girl the other night. At Walmart of all places.

Drinking all of the Christmas stress away at work this week.

Thanks, Fancy Ashley for the fancy last minute sparkle tree gift idea + sandwich idea!

My plan for today. Minus Trader Joe's actually, since I went last night.
Target's not listed but Target's always a given.

I got 99 problems

The way to really ruin my morning is to take away my breakfast. (And my coffee but luckily I still have that.). I gave the ultra slow Sonic by my office just one more chance to redeem themselves this morning and they were slow again. So slow in fact that they made me late to work. Late without food because I left without it. They were that slow.

So as I'm angrily driving to work (without breakfast!), I stop at a red light and I check my email (it's not a good idea but yes, I check emails and texts at red lights.) and I get this one:

Um. Budget?

I'm already freaking out about how many more Christmas gifts I need to buy and now you want me to budget myself?! Shopping is my happiness, mint - don't try and restrain me!

But of course just the thought of all the gifts I still have to buy gets me all stressed out.

Which gets me to thinking about having to split time with our families during the Holidays. I'm avoiding those conversations as long as I can but just thinking about it gets me even more stressed.

I finally get to the office (a whole 4 minutes later) and a boss who's been out of town since before the election, is there bitching about it. So now I have to listen to all political silly talk and bashing again that I was happy to have moved past last week.

I had this at home this morning. 

I could still be there with her in our pj's, playing, having a grand time, probably listening to Christmas music - when we're not watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, of course.

But I have to work. Especially if I want to keep up my shopping addiction.

This post of course has been brought to you by the hashtag #firstworldproblems.

Don't get me wrong, I am thankful for everything I have but damn, some days just get off to a shitty start, ya know? (Literally too. My morning really started with one of our dogs pooping in the house. A rare occurrence but always a blast!)

My only consolation now is that it's still early and things can only go up from here.

Anything you want to vent about today? :D

P.S. My Shabby Apple giveaway is still open! Enter to win $50 and buy yourself some happy ;)