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Nov. 15th, 2008 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
navygreenI have hardly any Thanksgiving decorations.
Runza is having a mandatory employee meeting on Monday night. Afterwards, we're finally getting the sanctioned party we've been hoping for and anticipating for MONTHS. When we weren't originally authorized to have a Runza-sanctioned party, Philip and I had offered up our home for a get-together for all our coworkers anyway (it's against the rules to have sanctioned parties at the home of any employee, you see).
The sanctioned party won't last long - maybe an hour and a half, tops. Afterward, when the SANCTIONED stuff is done, then we are free to invite anyone over to continue celebrating at our house, and we have done so. But I only learned the date of the party yesterday, and it's now only just two days away.
And the hostess in me is so torn. I want the house to be warm and inviting. I feel like my house should be fully engrossed in the impending holiday... only I don't have proper decorations for this one.
I so badly want to decorate for Christmas, so that my home can be beautiful, warm, and glorious for all of my coworkers and friends when they arrive. So that pretty candles can be lit in festive holders, and because I know that we will not have a chance to have a holiday get-together for the Runza peeps later on (staffing issues are HORRID in December).
A selfish part of me also knows that if I decorate now, I'll have nothing but baking to worry about before my annual wrapping party in a few weeks. It'll be easy-peasy to throw everything together for my girlies then. I also know that - because I never got around to decorating for Halloween this year while working an average of 50 hours/week now - that I should seize this energy and desire to decorate while I've got it.
Right?
But isn't this so fundamentally WRONG? To decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving has passed? Please, my wise friends, make this decision for me!
I will be cleaning a few things for the next couple hours. I would love to check back and find that, among the comments, my friends here have made my decision and just told me what to do. Then I can just follow the plan.
Yes/No?
Runza is having a mandatory employee meeting on Monday night. Afterwards, we're finally getting the sanctioned party we've been hoping for and anticipating for MONTHS. When we weren't originally authorized to have a Runza-sanctioned party, Philip and I had offered up our home for a get-together for all our coworkers anyway (it's against the rules to have sanctioned parties at the home of any employee, you see).
The sanctioned party won't last long - maybe an hour and a half, tops. Afterward, when the SANCTIONED stuff is done, then we are free to invite anyone over to continue celebrating at our house, and we have done so. But I only learned the date of the party yesterday, and it's now only just two days away.
And the hostess in me is so torn. I want the house to be warm and inviting. I feel like my house should be fully engrossed in the impending holiday... only I don't have proper decorations for this one.
I so badly want to decorate for Christmas, so that my home can be beautiful, warm, and glorious for all of my coworkers and friends when they arrive. So that pretty candles can be lit in festive holders, and because I know that we will not have a chance to have a holiday get-together for the Runza peeps later on (staffing issues are HORRID in December).
A selfish part of me also knows that if I decorate now, I'll have nothing but baking to worry about before my annual wrapping party in a few weeks. It'll be easy-peasy to throw everything together for my girlies then. I also know that - because I never got around to decorating for Halloween this year while working an average of 50 hours/week now - that I should seize this energy and desire to decorate while I've got it.
Right?
But isn't this so fundamentally WRONG? To decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving has passed? Please, my wise friends, make this decision for me!
I will be cleaning a few things for the next couple hours. I would love to check back and find that, among the comments, my friends here have made my decision and just told me what to do. Then I can just follow the plan.
Yes/No?
