Just got back from a late lunch walk. Was stunning today. It had that pleasant chill you get when it's really sunny on a winters day. The tide was really high and every now and then you'd get explosions against the sea wall.
It was one of those days when you remember why you live by the sea. It's one of two things that have raised my spirits today.
The other was first thing this morning. I'm not a huge fan of Christmas advertisements. Don't get me wrong I LOVE Christmas, love everything about it (apart from spending most of Christmas day in the car driving to relatives, none of us live close). But Christmas advertisements tend to leave me cold.
Then this morning I saw the new Homebase Christmas advertisement. It was like they'd looked at my blog talking about kids homemade decorations and why we have 2 trees. Take a look here.
I saw it and cracked up, then showed to son who cracked up, then showed to husband - who complained he hadn't even had his first cup of coffee yet. Anyway, as we can't do Christmas things we're going to go out on Christmas Eve (if we can) and buy a last minute Christmas tree. I mentioned it in an earlier blog so I'll spare the detail.
Son and I have decided to spend Christmas week making a whole raft of really dreadful homemade decorations to put on the tree. I'm actually really looking forward to it - I think it will make for a fun week and at least we'll have a purpose, however silly it is. I'm definitely going to make one of the reindeer from the advertisement and we have loads of sticker eyes, noses and mouths left over from the COVID-19 Viruses we made as party giveaways for sons birthday. Sorted!
Enough frivolity...
I've just finished going through all my LinkedIn messages and contacts to see who I will approach about my new company. Things are moving along - the day is getting closer and I'm getting less and less sleep as a result (cold sweats). Really proud of myself this week because I set up a spreadsheet.... with dropdown lists. I didn't know I had it in me, I also hope I never have to do it again.
Found out today that I don't get my redundancy until end of January - it's going to be another few tight months. I'd anticipated getting it in December. No January sales for me after all. Though what I'd buy and why I'd buy it is anybodies guess - there's nowhere to go.
They are talking about letting people have more freedoms at Christmas, but the penalty will be that we have to shut down for 1 week for every 1 day we get the freedoms. Personally, whilst I'd love to see my parents, I think the agony of further lockdowns is far greater than the need to see them over Christmas. However, I appreciate that each and every one of us will have a different story and thus opinion. I wait to see what the final outcome is.
Been quite a few posts this week, my brain has verbal diarrhea - hmmm I'm not sure that is possible - perhaps cerebral diarrhea - either way it's just splurging out this week. TMI perhaps?
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