Well, the clock has all but run out. In a few hours, Christmas will be upon us and I still have much i want to do left undone. If i go none stop, i might make it but, that's not really likely. In the past, Christmas day itself was more or less okay, but it's hard to ignore the fact that the preparation period i had failed to go as planned.

To be honest, I don't really care for that whole go with the flow philosophy; I want to be doing something because i decided to do it at a specific time, not because it just happened and i just went along with it. I need to have some control, don't i?