#354 Final PreparaShawns

We're ready!

All the gifts are bought.

All the presents are wrapped.

All the cookies and cakes are baked and iced. (Thanks Marcel)

All our parcels have been mailed and delivered.

I've only got a day and a half left of work and then *BAM*  

♪ ♫ Christmas Vacation.

Christmas Vacation.

We're so glad it's Christmas Vacation. ♫ ♪

#351 Office - Christmas PreperaShawns

I have already checked out, mentally, at the office.

Not only have we been prepping at home for the past month for Christmas, but also at the office. Because our clients are the Nuclear Medicine departments of Hospitals, and because historically they get next to no bookings over the last 3 weeks of the year, and the first week of the new year, they decrease or cancel a lot of their regular orders. 

The logistics of those changes, and their implications for pur productions as well as their shipping, means we start mid-November.

Well I was fortunate in that I got all of my clients' changes/cancellations completed, and all summaries and reports complated and sent out.

Now that this is done I am spent and I honestly am only physically in the office. Mentally, I'm already at the cottage on Lac Massawippi, waiting for Santa...

#347 Saturday SatisfactShawn

Gingerbread Waffles, Cookie baking, Gift Wrapping, Egg Nog drinking and Christmas Movie watching.

That is what makes for a pretty damn good Saturday.

#336 Gift PreperaShawn

We are WELL INTO the Christmas Season now.   

Tonight we wrapped 6 gifts and 6 fruitcakes, and signed some Christmas cards.  Tomorrow I lug it all to the office to Wrap them all up for shipping.

And then I have to go to the Post office. (Pray for me.)

After that though, Wham, Bam. Thank you Santa. Gifts in the mail!

 

#334 DecoraShawn CompleShawn

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we're fully decorated!

6 trees and 6 tableaux.

To quote one Mr. Ed Grimley, "I'm as happy as happy can be, I must say!"

Santa, we're ready!

#333 DecoraShawn ExploShawn

It starts...

I picked up a car today, then picked up Marcel and we made our way over to the storage unit. 30 minutes later the house was filled with bags and boxes od Christmas Decorations.

After 2 hours of unpacking we got to decorating... and after 3 more hours, we have the Mantle, 3 trees and three tableaux set up.  3 more trees and 2 more tableaux to go and we'll be ready for Christmas! 

Okay, well, we have more baking to do, and gift wrapping and card signing, a bit of shopping, and  a few parcels to ship and THEN we'll be ready for Christmas.  But considering that Dec 1st is only on Monday, we are well ahead of schedule!

I Am so excited and also so tired I can hardly stand it!

#332 Christmas DecoraShawn ExpectaShawn

♪ ♫ I'm so excited.

And I just can't hide it.

Tomorrow we decorate for Christmas.

Fa La La La La, La La La La! ♫ ♪

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

#329 Christmas Gift SuggestShawn

Look, I love Christmas, I love gift Giving and i love my family...  but sometimes that's a dangerous competition...

So if you're stuck trying to think of a gift for mother and Father... if you're thinking on getting your parents a Tablet for Christmas... use me as your litmus test...

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY, 

IF YOU LOVE THEM, 

IF YOU LOVE YOURSELF, 

DON'T DO IT!

GET THEM AN ETCH-A-SKETCH!

You're welcome.

#326 Fruitcake FabricaShawn

We were a Fruit Cake Factory today!

We baked 10 Orange Almond Fruit Cakes today.

Some for family, some for friends and one for us!

Now I know what you're saying...

"No one really likes fruitcake, let alone receive one for a gift..."

Au contraire mon frère! There are fruitcakes, and then there is our Orange Almond Fruitcakes.  Personally I don't even like fruitcake and yet I LOVE this one.

Did I mention we baked TEN of the?  Yea, TEN!

If it were up to us, we'd keep them all, but no, we're givers; we give.