My Weekend In A Ramble

Well my weekend is over and I have to go to work tomorrow. Gasp...I am posting to my journal from somewhere other than work. I started out my weekend Friday having to work 3-11PM which I normally like but since someone else was hosting ritual at my house I had to clean. Let's just say when the host and hostess got to my house I made it perfectly clear that I had the dishes done when they walked in and that's how they should be when they leave. I hate doing dishes! So I stayed up all night on Friday night cleaning my house and wrapping gifts because I am not using my normal holiday organization skills. Most years I have a list of everyone I am buying for and the prices and the store they were purchased at with all the receipts set aside somewhere just in case they need to exchange the gift. Not this year I threw away the receipts in the cleaning frenzy and I had no clue what I had purchased for whom earlier in the year. One of the disadvantages to celebrating Christmas with your family when you are pagan is that the holiday never seems to end. This year everything was so close together that I finally caught up on sleep today even though I wanted to see a friend I hadn't seen in years earlier in the day so I had more time with her. Anyway I finally crawled into bed Friday night or should I say Saturday morning at about 5AM to sleep till noon because I needed to get my avon order for my mom's stocking before Christmas day. So I set my alarm for noon and slept till one in the afternoon. Not good but I knew I wanted to be up by one to make a phone call to a friend who has been working strange hours too and he told me that would be the time to call. Funny but he didn't get off of work till six in the morning and was still sleeping because he had been pulling doubles. Not fun for him and I completely understand the need for sleep so I reset my alarm for two and went back to bed since the avon lady said between two and five she would be here. So I finally get the avon order take out the trash that I was too lazy to take out the night before and finish the last of the laundry that I decided to leave in the wash because I needed sleep. So I am working on the last min. preparations for a house invasion that I am excited about when I look at the time and realize I haven't taken a shower yet. I called the Host and he said that they would be on there way in ten min. I decided to waite till they got here to take a shower because they needed to get the roast ready. The timing was perfect because once I was fully dressed and ready for ritual the last of the group showed up. Then while we were making the last preparations for ritual after we socialized for a bit I remembered the wine that I had picked up in Boston is not chilled and is a MUCH better selection than what had been brought. So I tossed the wine in the freezer and tell everyone 15 to 20 min. before ritual. Then my phone rings perfect timing because I thought I had turned in onto vibrate so the alarm clock still worked since our Host needed to go to work at ten. The phone call I had made at one was calling me back we had to waite anyway so I called him back and had a brief conversation just to catch up. And then it was back for ritual and the wine was the perfect temperature once I got off the phone. Ritual and the meal went well we had a light hearted out of the ordinary spoof ritual that was fun as well as funny but had the intent and seriousness behind it. Yes, that sounds weird but the host and hostess managed it quite well. After all was said and done we decided to have a sleepover at my house with whoever could stay. So the Host and Hostess spent the night and we were up all night talking. Another late night then I had to be up early on Sunday to finish my sisters quilt that my mother and I made for her. Let's just say that is the last quilt that I am going to sew the sides together without bias tape on. What a nightmare when you are on a time crunch. Once that was done I had to get everything together to go to my mom's house for her annual Christmas Eve party. That was fun but lasted forever. Then I had to finish making my nephew's scarf that I promised my sister I would make since they started using longer scarfs. I went to bed on Christmas eve at three in the morning Christmas day then I had to be up early for Christmas since I had to go to work at three in the evening to work. So Christmas day was a quick party this year and I was off to work. Did I mention that I had fallen twice that day. The first time in my mom's garage and then on my sisters ice rink...I mean sidewalk to her house. Not feeling the best by the time I get into work and then I realize that the only shoes I have with me are high healed boots that I thought would look cute with my outfit. Great a ankle that is protesting and then I have to be in high heals. I spent the night at my mom's house last night and I was able to get into contact with a friend that a miss more than I can say so I get to see her for the first time in two years in about an hour. So the weekend was very crazy but still fun and I got the greatest gift ever. I still have a friend that I thought I had lost because we haven't talked in years.