Kristmas Kerfuffle

Well, I haven't been posting because I've only completed 4 of the 12 or so hats I need to finish for x-mas/new years...and every time I think about this blog I feel guilty that I'm so far behind in my knitting. Actually I've made 6 hats but given 2 away...co-workers. One who liked a hat I didn't know who to give it to and another co-worker who has worked with me for about a year and is moving almost all the way across the country. But due to lack of sleep and increased business at work, I've fallen behind, as I could have had at least 2 more hats knitted up in addition to those finished/given away.
Add to that getting my apartment ready for a quiet but hopefully satisfying X-mas most likely alone with my fave dood, Tony, I've gotta make my kitchen usable after a hostile take-over by mouse...eek/eww. There's no tree or tree like substitute this year (in the last few years I've decorated a few sprigs of eucalyptus branches with earrings, necklaces and a few random Mardi gras beads in a Christ-massy tin can), hardly any presents for Mom and Tony, and well, the apartment is kind of a disaster zone. Honestly, I didn't think I wanted a Christmas until this week.
But I'm thinking that no matter what is going on, I can't selfishly believe that I can just step away from the holidays without other people depending on me like I was going to this year. From now on, I'm getting a head start on knitting gifts, because I've got a lot of cousins, most of who've got kids of their own now, and a step-sister (who is no matter what always my sister) and she's got 2 kids too. I have a huge area of my teeny tiny apartment devoted to craft crap that NEEDS organizing, and my eventual plan for new years is to save up money to get out of this apartment complex (and away from the mice that come with it), which will involve packing, most likely scaling down the hoard of crap I've got and finding a way to fit it all into a new but probably just as teeny tiny apartment.
At the moment I'm doing laundry, still sipping my first cuppa coffee (yes, it's almost noon), and thinking about what to do while my ipod is charging: 1. dishes. 2. organizing the crash site that is my craft pile. 3. bleaching EVERYTHING that is in my kitchen...at least 4 times. And after all that, I still need to go to Hawthorne to get a CD I ordered from Jackpot, and pick up at least 2 skeins of yarn (probably bulky super-wash in navy and purple for 2 of my cousin's kids), and think about one of those ironically tiny potted x-mas trees if I can find them. I figure if I've got about 8 hours to do all this (3 of which will have to be while charging the pod) I can still relax for 2 hours before bed if I don't just drop into a coma when it's all done.Or just give up half way through.
...Yay for christmas cheer...
To give you an idea of the frame of mind all this christmas crafting puts me in, here's a great vid of crafting gone horribly horribly wrong. I think Tony found it once and thought of me immediately.