Random Ramblings Are Random

This time of year is always a tough one for me, even though I haven't had to deal with my mother's holiday bullshit for years. Everybody is so cheery - or at least acting like it - and here I am not even in the spirit of the holidays. Although I did break out some holiday earrings and a pair of antlers for work purposes. Yeah, I don't usually go for that sort of stuff anyway, to be entirely honest. I'm on my third of four days off after Christmas Eve, and I haven't done as much as I'd hope I'd be able to. I have half my laundry done and put all freshly cleaned bedding onto my bed, so there's that. And by half my laundry I mean that I have half of the total amount washed, dried, and stuffed into a couple of huge garbage bags. I know I need to go through all those clothes and only keep what I actually wear, especially for work. I find that I don't really go out a whole lot, and most of my work clothes fit my usual gothy asthetic anyway so it's all

At work we're smack dab in the middle of the holiday season. And we're severely understaffed. Not necessarily for lack of trying to hire people before the holidays started, of course, although the reluctance to hire has not exactly helped the situation at work. Needless to say, tensions are a bit high, especially as we're being stretched thin as we try to cover all the different events and stuff that is being done by the hotel staff. It would not be so bad if we had the same hotel team that we did last year at this time, but we also were not as booked with events. And I was not working at the spa at that time either so I was much more relaxed than I have been lately. Right now I am on day 6 of 6 working - four days were at the spa and the last two have been at the hotel. Honestly, working at the hotel has felt like a break. I am not being run off my feet with having to take clients to various waiting rooms, no having to run up and down stairs, no having to try to answer pho