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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 to the good.

I'm still hoping that I can find the means to cover my living room furniture instead of resorting to painting the fabric. I'm pretty handy with staples and fabric...I just have to get the fabric. I've got a decent staple gun and a load of staples for it, so it's just a matter of getting the fabric. Once I decide for sure what colour I want to use, and whether or not I'm going to cheap out and use broadcloth or go with something fancier. Bleh.

At the moment I am sitting on my bed. I could be sorting/folding clean laundry, or working on my first full act one for the book I starting writing during my writing class, but my brain is simply not cooperating with me. I want to be doing something to help keep the housework on the go, yet part of me is like 'it's too late to be making cleaning noises' and the other is like 'you can still clean quietly'. And then there's the dilemma of where to start in the process! My bedroom would make the most sense, but because I can simply close the door on it I could start in the living room. Or the kitchen. Or the bathroom. I think this will need me to create one of my many to-do lists with everything broken down to manageable chunks. But then I have to gather the ability to focus on that long enough to get the list even done!

But at least I've got all clean bedding to slide into tonight, right?

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