Sad Morning

I had a sad start to my day: I woke from a dream in which I had to find twenty people to go with me to a soccer game and I don't even have twenty acquaintances. And it was a slow awakening too, I spent several waking minutes wondering why I had accepted these indoor soccer tickets during a pandemic. 

Sadly, my sad start was followed by a sadder mid-morning when I noticed some items that might need to be purged from the basement.

The Christmas wrap bin? Birthday wrap bin? Neither's been opened in years. Taking up too much real estate.

The narrow spare mattress? It's been years since we've had two overnight guests. That needs to go too. 

Of course, all I would need to do is throw a sleep-over birthday party for one of my friends, invite 19 other people, and then we'd all go to a soccer game the next morning and everything would work out fine. 

Comments

[KC]

I'd vote for keeping your favorites out of the wrapping paper. (half because it's such a pain to find good paper, and half because making people either Advent Calendars or Bad Day Present packages: a reserve of small treats and weird things, each wrapped so it's a surprise, is actually *really really fun* to put together - and fun for gift-loving people to receive - and can be done from home)(I am nearly out of non-Christmas wrapping paper due to this)

That and the pandemic's gotta be over-ish sometime, right? Right?

*sigh*

[theQueen]

KC - Okay, I will keep one of the 30 rolls I have. A plain red one. appropriate for every occasion.

[KC]

I mean, if you really don't ever wrap gifts, it is fine to continue that habit. I just have been repeatedly surprised over the years at when exactly I need gift wrap and therefore now try to keep a hoard (it's also hard to get rolls of gift wrap delivered, sigh).

But also we have some nieces and nephews and a few people who Really Like Presents. So the situation is not parallel even though I also would not be going as a crowd of 30 people to a soccer game...

(if you did go to a soccer game, would you bring Celebrity Hat? Would Celebrity Hat ever forgive you if you had that large of a party and did not feature Celebrity Hat as the star of the show?)

[theQueen]

KC - I feel there is a strong tea > Britain > soccer connection, so Celebrity Hat would be there. And the only time there are girts that are wrapped are when I want to point out to Gary that wrapped girst are kind of fun, sometimes. Perhaps I'll keep three bags and a square of paper.