The Christmas Crunch

I don't know about anybody else, but the holiday season seems to be doing nothing much beyond making me even busier than normal. I'm getting ready for some holiday time off, and it goes without saying that I need to get ahead a little bit before I take off, but I've had virtually no opportunities to squeeze just a little bit more time into the things I need to do. My weekend was almost nonstop. We got a few inches of snow on Thursday night, but I haven't had time to get any shoveling in until Sunday evening, which gave the snow plenty of time to pack down as people walked all over it because it hadn't been shoveled yet. I'm posting this at about 4:00 in the morning because I haven't had a proper opportunity to sit down and write before now. If you've noticed that some of my posts lately haven't been models of being content filled, now you know why. Will it lighten up a little bit as Christmas approaches? Boy, I sure hope so, but I can't say I expect it particularly. Maybe what I'm missing is a good night's sleep--I can't precisely remember the last time I had one. I'm not going in to work tomorrow (or, more accurately, today--although I generally consider it to be the previous day until I go to bed), so it is possible. Let's all cross our fingers, shall we? If there's anything to report tomorrow, I'll be sure to let you know.