You can only be in denial for so long. There are only so many lists you can write until you realise that the Christmas shopping won't come down the chimney with Santa carrying a bunch of Coles bags. I do my best to avoid it. I get myself psyched up for an early morning shop. That way the car park won't be full and I can get in and out early. What I'm clearly deluded about is the fact that every other household within a 20km radius of the supermarket is thinking pretty much the same thing. Get in and get out. The downside to the early morning shop is that there are no registers open and you've got to unload an abundance of groceries that's toppling over the trolley onto a small square space of express lane counter that is really only suited to a small packet of pre-sliced cheese or a packet of fags. Both, I can guarantee won't make it onto my shopping list. The list of things to do is as ugly as the grocery list with only a few days to go and enough jobs to classify you a major employer. You put it all off until the last minute. No point scrubbing the shower now. No point mopping floors now and so on. So the day before Christmas it's assuming that you'll be baking with one hand and scrubbing with the other. The tablecloth that doesn't get looked at for 12 months gets a dust off and an iron. It's usually when you just finished the last once over (on a 35 degree stinker of a day) that you realise the Shiraz didn't come out and the brandy sauce looks like it could be there for the next millennium. Bugger. You've done the gift shopping at least you thought, until on the very eve of the day someone presents you with that unexpected small token that leaves you guilt ridden, for a short while anyway. Well that carpark is filling and I haven't got to the shops yet. I'm stalling. I need to get off this computer and face it. Perhaps I'll start a new list first.
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