Christmas Time

Posted on 2009/12/22 09:42:44 (December 2009).

Yes, I can understand Lox and Sheri's resentment of all that is "commercial" about Christmas. It is no longer politically-correct to mention it in a Christian way - where I work for sure. Here it is just Christmas Holidays. No other connotations allowed. Practising Christians now keep themselves to themselves like a proscribed sect. I don't practice a religion, am no angel for sure, but I sympathise with their marginalisation. It is, afterall, their celebration. (Yes, yes, I know about pagan fore-runnners! :-D).

I have tried to buy Christmas Presents - but only for Joc. She is so well organised that everyone else is taken care of. I just need to buy presents for her from the kids and me etc.

Being honest though, I really need a holiday from work, no matter what the celebration. It's not warm and sunny at the moment, but I seriously need to "unwind". Maybe plan 2010 better than I did 2009. For sure I've worked on a new and valuable project, put a lot of effort in to it, been praised for it, but once more my attempts to ride on this to a bit of promotion have totally failed. I now mention openly that I think I have been "black balled" (I hope my friends understand this quirk of the English language!! :-D) After so many years to watch others with no spark, enthusiasm or experience racing to the top, totally baffles and dis-heartens me.

I'm just getting over a bad "cold" which has given me a temperature, sneezes and very watery, itchy eyes. Hard to keep working through it, but that's my employer's expectation. To take a day off is a great sin. (One for which I am still "paying" more than a year after my last day of sickness!) I am now much improved and glad to feel human once more. I despise my employer for it's corporate attitude though.

Let's be positive though!!!

Surviving the bad weather so far. I think we've been lucky here in the mid-west because it's the South and East of the UK that are worst affected. Last night was a crystal-clear, starry night that I would have loved to stay outside an watch. Perhaps see a shooting-star (too cloudy to see the Geminids earlier this month :-( ) Too cold and I wasn't well prepared. Still to realise that there *is* something larger and more important than us all cheers me up. Head down in a rut, it is good to look up once...

Wasn't that Oscar Wilde?

:-))

Seems like work took a good turn (until the promotion thing), which is positive. I am sure that the kids help in getting that "Christmas Spirit" in a better way. :P

Posted by Lox at 2009/12/22 13:37:50.

Was the quote you were referring to "We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking up at the stars"...?

Posted by John at 2009/12/23 12:01:42.

Spot on, John! (creative license taken, of course!)

Posted by Nigel at 2009/12/23 13:08:53.

Now that's a thing I enjoy doing too, watching the sky on a crystal-clear, starry night. Preferably while sitting in a deck-chair, somewhere in the country, in a summer evening. You know, when a gentle mild wind strokes your face and you hear the noise of nocturnal bugs.

Posted by Sheri at 2009/12/23 16:31:23.

Shame about your promotion.
In France we have a very particular way of getting promoted. It's called "promotion canapé". A literal translation would be "sofa promotion". You sleep with you boss and you get what you want.
Works in Italy too. Ain't it right, Lox?

Posted by Sheri at 2009/12/23 16:36:07.

Sheri: Absolutely, shame if the boss shares the same sex as you though... :(

Posted by Lox at 2009/12/23 23:50:49.

Lox : Not really. It's just a technical detail.

Posted by Sheri at 2009/12/24 06:33:54.

Sheri: Fair point! Plus Nigel is British so he will find a way to put up with it!

Posted by Lox at 2009/12/24 09:11:23.

Ha!!

Well that is certainly how *some* people have made it to the top (I know from fact!)

However I rely on my well-known charm to have the ladies swooning... Sadly they are no use to my career path!! :-(

Hopefully my plans for 2010 will NOT include submitting to my bosses in ANY way!! :-D

Posted by Nigel at 2009/12/24 17:17:41.

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