Saturday, December 10, 2005

Holiday Stress

I'm rapidly becoming addicted to these lists. Guess they are just too easy. Here are my top holiday stresses.

  1. Shopping. I am not an intuitive, catch a clue shopper. I need huge blaring hints. (Barring those, I guess I could use Scott's castoff roaster for Tracy...)
  2. Zeke being sick. That is no fun. He's better, but I worry more now than before he was sick.
  3. Christmas decorations. I'm not good at them. I'm in dire need of Santa Eye for the Christmas Challenged Guy...
  4. Texas playing for a national championship. Now I'm forced to root for a team I despise simply because they are from my home state and I despise USC even more.
  5. Kids with spring fever in December.
  6. Money, or more precisely the lack thereof.
  7. The Dallas Cowboys. I haven't been this frustrated in a season since Gary Hogeboom started at QB.
  8. Tookie Williams. I'm all about redemption and turning a life around. Just not sure I want to support him (if I was a CA taxpayer) for the remainder of his days (however short they may be.)
  9. Grad school. Just one more paper to write for this semester...(Actually I should be writing that paper instead of doing this...)
  10. Families that don't treat each other as such.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello Chris,
So sorry about Zeke. Hope he is so much better. I even spent a night at the hospital with my sister when her littlest one had RSV just last year. By the way, don't fuss about cheering for Texas. Just think of it as a school some nice people graduated from like Jenny, Renee Zellweger, and Matthew McCounnaughey....., or whatever. Jenny Neumann

Anonymous said...

The worst is when somewhere along the line your spouse has told you what she wants but you just can't remember what it was. And of course, no amount of pleading is going to persuade her to tell you a second time.
You are right about worrying. I envision every worst case scenario possible with the girls.
Guess you can cross Tookie off your worry list, now.