Rearrange your daughters decor on her entertainment center with a lack of spatial awareness is my guess. The decor was definitely rearranged, the rest is supposition.
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I have 18 things on my pre-holiday to-do list, and none can be done from the comfort of my couch.
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I’m really terrible at packing. I can never think of what to bring. I only bring my backpack, and it always ends up being mostly the contents of the fridge and not many clothes. This time I have a bulky gift to bring but I don’t want to abandon the cheese, so I might just bring two sets of clothing, wear then both, and have nothing but gifts/ meds/ electronics/ food in my backpack. I can do laundry by hand every night, right?
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Laundry by hand every night sounds pretty miserable, and odds are, sometime or another they won’t get dry in time. Wet underwear in December sounds more miserable than hand laundry every night.
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There is a very big thing I think I might really want to do, but there are a lot of obstacles and one of them is that I am afraid to do it, for multiple reasons. My complaint is that I am a fraidy-cat person. I do not like this about myself. I want to be a bold person.
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I am procrastinating. I have to make cinnamon rolls as part of the gift I always give my bosses for Christmas and I just don’t want to. I can’t seem to get over the ~feelings~ I’ve been having at work for the last few months and everyone else is pretending nothing ever happened. It’s making me a little grinchy and I don’t like it. Like if I am mad at you, you don’t deserve homemade goodness. Blergh. Off to make the dough. Maybe some loud Christmas music will help…
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You know, Ask a Manager makes a big deal every year about how gifts should only flow down - that is, you shouldn’t give gifts to your bosses at all. She does make an exception for food gifts- those are okay to give to bosses, but not at all obligatory. https://www.askamanager.org/2011/12/rules-for-office-gift-giving.html
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Thanks. I have heard that before, but I feel like when you’ve been doing something every Christmas for over a decade it’s hard to suddenly not give something they would be expecting. There are only 6 employees there besides me and I’m currently disgusted with 4 of them lol. I need to get over it, it’s been 3 months and I’m still holding the resentment. I’ve been a really good actress the last few months because I’m too chicken to leave. There is nowhere else to go for my business that would be any better either, so I stay. And make cinnamon rolls that I don’t want to give.
ETA in the past when I haven’t been cranky I have been happy to make and give them.
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That does change the dynamic, I agree. I’m sorry you’re in a tough situation there.
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Can you passive aggressively make a less amazing baked good, or put in store bought cinnamon rolls instead? This is how I express my anger in these cases
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Oooh give something from a mix. Or those weird cardboard tube ones
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Ha. My version of passive aggressiveness was not making any cookies/fudge/other yumminess for work. In the past I have always made lots of stuff and this year I made nothing. I also bought nothing for the main candy dish we keep at the front counter and people definitely noticed. I’m such a rebel! 
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The ones that taste exactly like the cardboard tube they came in? Lol
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Sometimes doing something nice or giving a gift to someone on my “jackass” list has helped me stop stewing about them being such a jackass.
At least for a while.
So, it may help you move on from your anger. At least for the holidays.
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Complaint: my kids are leaving for a week and I really like them and want them with me.
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I really miss Anthony Bourdain and his work.
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ME TOO.
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Even though I’ve done 7 things, there are still 14 things on this list, because I keep finding more to add.
ETA: make that 15 things left. Remembered another one.
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I’m in a good mood, but my anxiety is high. Stores are out of items or don’t carry them (rose water!), they’re super crowded, I’ve had way too much caffeine, and I almost got run over in a parking lot. And there are still things on my list!
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I hate my new eye glasses because the nose pieces are really uncomfortable. I was all worried about the prescription being done right or adjusting to the new prescription. It turns out…even with it correct, they are not comfortable. 
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