Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

News flash

Holiday stress hits women harder

This story was on the radio this morning as Victor and I drove to work. His idea of a solution was that women should approach holiday planning more like men, so we wouldn't stress.

That would lead to another headline: Convenience Stores Implode As Millions Attempt Dec. 24 Shopping Sprees

Yeah, I don't usually resort to gender-based stereotypes...just when the stereotypes actually represent the truth in my own personal life.

I do wonder, if my grandmother-mother-aunts-sister-and-I said "Hey, you guys are on for next Christmas," what the result would be.

With my own family, my stress is minimal. (It's all delegated to my sister.) I save my stomach-knotting for worrying about whether the presents I got for Victor's family are ok and whether they are making fun of me behind my back and am I going to spill guacamole all over the rug and trip over the cat.

Well, now that I think about it, I do worry a little about whether my sister's stress or my mother's stress or somebody else's stress will cause some stressful incident leading up to or actually breaking through at the big family holiday thing. That's meta-stress.

Oh, and I'm concerned that my staff will think I'm thoughtless because all I got them was impersonal gift cards.

And the timing of the cooking for the party has me a little nervous.

And I just got a card from somebody I didn't send one to, and I'm afraid he's going to be able to tell by the timing of the mail that I only sent one after I got his.

I love this laid-back time of year.

Posted by Nic at December 19, 2006 05:51 PM | TrackBack