[HPFGU-OTChatter] re: Christmas spirit/transit strike

[Sheryll Townsend]

 Catlady wrote:

> Oh, poor Sheryll. Can your husband drive you to work and
> come back to
> pick you up on Xmas day?

Sheryll:

We don't own a car and neither of us drive. He's been cycling to work since the strike started! Andy's also now off work until early January. Well, his regular job, anyway. The last day of school was Friday, so no more kids to feed until they come back. He is working Christmas and Boxing Day for the Rent-a-Chef company. He'll be cooking for at a home for retired Jesuit priests for those days.

His brother is driving me to work and back today but he works days and is already at work when I need a ride Tuesday afternoon. Believe it or not, I think one of my customers is going to drive me home on Tuesday! I mentioned I didn't have a ride and he said he could probably come in just before closing to rent a movie and give me a lift. 

Have I mentioned before how many great customers I have?
> 

Sheryll, originally:
> << Still, I refuse to let it all ruin my holiday. I
> cabbed to a
> Christmas gathering among friends last Sunday, the only
> chance for us
> to get together before my daughter heads back to university
> after the
> holidays. My shopping is done, my tree is up, my baking
> nearly
> complete. As opening manager on Christmas day it's my
> pleasure to take
> in enough cookies to keep us all on a sugar for the
> duration of our
> shift. <vbg> >>
> 

Catlady:
> Bless your attitude
> 
Sheryll:

I'm a big believer (and practitioner) of holiday spirit, I just can't help myself. I give gifts to strangers, put my tree up right at the beginning of December, bake far more cookies than we can eat. I even own enough pairs of Christmas-themed socks to wear a different pair every day of December until the 25th (my daughter started my collection when she was little - she's 25 now!). 

My parents dropped off all our gifts yesterday afternoon before they picked Nyssa up for their trip to my grandmother's place for the holiday. It's all I can do not to peek! The only gift I know, though, is the one from my eldest nephew. I didn't mean to peek at that one but one of the cats was trying to get into the gift bag to sleep and I saw the gift as I was taping the bag shut. Hee, he got me slippers that look like big elf shoes! *does happy dance*

Hey, what you all snickering at? Surely someone almost 50 is allowed to be delighted with elf shoes/slippers? <vbg>

[Lee]:
I vote we give this lady a broomstick for Christmas...or a smaller version
of Sirius's flying motorcycle.  Then she could use a Reducio charm and hide
the broomstick or cycle in her purse until it's neded again.

Sheryll: 

Oh, both of those sound like the solution to my problem! 

Just be sure to send more warm clothes along with them. It's been pretty cold here this weekend.

Sheryll


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