https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 03 May 2026 11:22:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out/page/2#post-269731 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:52:33 +0000 anne 269731@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Theresa, I have been thinking of you when I have been hearing the flooding reports in the news from your part f the country </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out/page/2#post-269666 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:47:29 +0000 Mellllls 269666@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>weather issues are worrying us as well at the moment. we leave tommorrow, there was a major snowstorm at our destination and they are predicting snow all weekend where we live, making travel back after xmas difficult. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out/page/2#post-269587 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:11:50 +0000 Theresa 269587@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My deepest sympathies to all of you who are still shopping and organising - I was done last week thankfully - I was offered Christmas Eve as the date for my car service and I declined as I didn't want to be anywhere near the shops this week!</p> <p>BUT, ex-H just sent me an email that could throw the festive season on its head...</p> <p>A severe weather warning has been issued, and there is a very real chance he wont get home due to already flooded creeks/rivers coping even more rain. Now this isn't a big deal for me (lol!), but the girls will be very unhappy as despite our divorce, we have made a point of spending christmas eve and christmas day together as a family every single year :(</p> <p>My only concern, besides unhappy kidlets, is that he bought the big part of their gift and its at his house (a Nintendo Wii), and if the weather does as is expected, I am going to NEED that gift to help keep the girls occupied if the next 5 weeks of hols are spent trapped inside... luckily I still have keys to his house LOL!</p> <p>Oh, and I've had my furbaby at the vet this morning and he may need surgery on Friday or Wednesday if the meds they've prescribed don't do the job </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out/page/2#post-269582 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:04:26 +0000 Mamapicklejuice 269582@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>hhahaha, yeah, I didn't even mention all the hand stamped Christmas cards I have yet to mail. hahahahaaaa. YEAH. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out/page/2#post-269576 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:48:47 +0000 Beth 269576@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ha, April! It's the perfectionism as well as all the glossy representations of what Christmas is supposed to look like. :O</p> <p>I'll be putting on my sweats and wearing a ponytail tomorrow and Thursday as I head into full house-cleaning and pre-cooking mode. Still, the only thing that's really freaking me out right now are reports of a possible major snowstorm on Christmas Day. That could be interesting... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269571 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:39:13 +0000 LeahJanes 269571@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm done but not dusted. My house has a nice fine layer of dust that has been mocking me during the past very busy week. </p> <p>I have one more gift to buy, all my wrapping to do, and a bunch of cooking to tackle. Lucky I am not entertaining a crowd so the cooking part will be a blast. I love holiday food! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269570 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:36:55 +0000 Kristen 269570@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am packing tomorrow morning for our flight to Vegas. Haven't bought a present yet for my parents, but my Mom and I will be hitting the Fashion Square Mall on Thursday so we'll be buying up a storm then! :)</p> <p>I really hope this trip goes well. Maybe I can convince my parents to do it again sometime; it's saved us so much work and stress already, and we haven't even left yet! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269561 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:23:49 +0000 Debora 269561@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Khris, if it makes you feel any better, I still haven't decided on a menu yet for Christmas dinner. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269520 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:46:52 +0000 MsMaven 269520@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for your kind thoughts, Michelle. My son said they are going to freeze some of their food and will keep it for us for a January trip. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269517 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:43:49 +0000 April 269517@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Khris, you have my sympathies. I hope you'll be able to find some peace.</p> <p>For me, the yearly freakout comes (strangely enough) over creating handmade greeting cards for my coworkers. Every year I swear I'll start early and will plan my design well in advance -- yeah yeah yeah. I just can't get my mind around holiday cards before November. So I wait too long and then I'm all stressed out. </p> <p>Why do we do these things to ourselves? Could it be PERFECTIONISM rearing its ugly head? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269506 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:27:38 +0000 Queen Mum 269506@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>haha- sent the boys to the mall today to grab something for my husband. It is so handy to live within walking distance of the mall. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269504 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:25:48 +0000 Steph 269504@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I finished everything today--I basically chose to do it all in one day (yesterday). Since I don't host, that just means that I did my shopping (I only purchase for four kids, so I got all their gifts; I had purchased for the adults awhile ago) and then when I got home I saw that my holiday cards had arrived, so I hunkered down and several hours later I had written out 77 holiday cards, and stamped and addressed the envelopes. Today I had to mail some packages. I'll probably wait until the day I travel (Christmas Eve) to pack. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269492 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:07:11 +0000 Michelle 269492@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hugs to MsMaven: I hope your husband's procedure goes smoothly! Hurrah for good friends to help lift the sense of letdown.<br /> Biscuitsmom: that sounds very, very trying. Best of luck!!<br /> Fortunately I'm all done with my presents, which feels good. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269491 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:55:18 +0000 Debora 269491@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Done and dusted??? Just when I think I've learned all the "Angie-isms", Angie throws a new one at us! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269484 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:38:57 +0000 chewyspaghetti 269484@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I got my shopping done for the kids (yay!), but now I have another gift that I need to get. I actually have all of my side of the family confirmed for a post-Christmas breakfast get together before our day at the amusement park on Tuesday. Of course, there is time from now until then for tragedy to strike at least once. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269471 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:19:11 +0000 Mellllls 269471@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm way ahead of the curve this year for me. Just need to pick up one more gift card and finish my xmas cards but if the gift card doesn't happen no biggie. and wrap....can't do that til after i fly home though. our xmases are very low key though so i dont do nearly as much as many of you do. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269467 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:15:58 +0000 catgirl 269467@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am so disorganized that when my mom called yesterday to say "we're getting onto the plane", I said "But you don't get in until tomorrow night!". I had them arriving a day later on my calendar! Gah! But we preordered a Cajun turkey with fixings so I have very little cooking to do, and just about all of shopping (but no wrapping) is done. </p> <p>On top of that, I spontaneously decided to have a "Christmas cocktails" party at my house on Thurday!</p> <p>I'm with you, Chewy. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269466 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:14:46 +0000 Angie 269466@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm sure you'll be on top of it all in no time, Khris :)</p> <p>I am done and dusted too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269449 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:19:50 +0000 MsMaven 269449@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>We had to cancel out on our Christmas trip to Chicago last night. My husband is going to have to have a surgical procedure on Thursday morning--it's a result of complications from a surgery he had several years ago. (He also has a tendency to suffer freak accidents the week before Christmas. We thought we'd made it safely through until he started feeling unwell on Sunday.) We were going to do our real shopping in Chicago. I planned it so the refrigerator would be nearly empty by tonight.</p> <p>Fortunately we have some friends who are having a pot luck dinner Christmas day, so we will be getting together with them and also meet some new friends.</p> <p>Last night my son emailed photos he had just taken--big snowflakes coming down, two Christmas trees, one in each corner of the house. Such a lovely scene.</p> <p>I'm feeling a big let-down today, but anticipating that DH will feel much better by Sunday. I had bought three new sweaters to wear on the trip. I'll wear the red one on Christmas anyway. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269435 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:27:50 +0000 biscuitsmom 269435@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I dread Xmas day every year...go to me BIL who gets to me worse every year....incredibly rascist and verbally abuses his lovely daughter every year (she is somewhat heavy and he cant stand that) so I KNOW what he thinks of me! No way out of visiting and I'll just be glad when its over...till next time..sigh </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269428 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:19:47 +0000 Polly (thunalata) 269428@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Have foolishly promised the children I'd make costumes for the church 'just turn up' nativity on Christmas Eve. Last year was easy - Mary (= convenient blue dress + convenient blue dressing gown with hood. She was 3 and looked cute) and a Shepherd (can't remember exactly what I did but wasn't much hassle and involved a tea towel). This year, infant hearts are set on being a turtle dove (have bought feather boa and little ballet shoes but also net to run up into a skirt...) and a sheepdog complete with mask. No, they didn't really have those in nativity plays when I was little either...</p> <p>So that's still to do...</p> <p>Heart goes out particularly to Khris and Michelle - you'll make it work, I know you will! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269411 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:28:27 +0000 Michelle 269411@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow! Khris, Hugs!! That sounds extremely stressful.<br /> And compared to what you're facing, I shouldn't be complaining at all...but I'm really upset because I'd planned a perfect, probably Mom-proof outfit for Xmas dinner, but I needed a couple of pieces from Nordstrom to make it here to make it happen. I ordered them last week and paid $88 in shipping so it would be sent express...and it hasn't even left stupid FiftyOne yet, so there's no chance at all it will get here by Thursday. I could cry. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269410 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:25:24 +0000 Katiepea 269410@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yep! </p> <p>So much for a "fun in the sun" Christmas - it is forcasted to be pouring with rain here..... for the next week starting today. Oh yay. And then.... </p> <p>Can you believe for the first time ever, my hubby and I said to all families - "we'd just like to have a quiet family Christmas this year". We are so excited about cooking our first turkey. Until.....</p> <p>Two weeks ago the element in my oven blew up. It took a week for the repairman to come, who said that the part should arrive before Christmas, only to be rung up on Monday afternoon and told that there is not a single part in Australia and the next shipment will not arrive in the country until the MIDDLE of FEBRUARY 2011! ARRRGGGGGHHHH! I've now gone and bought a new oven and am going to throw myself on the mercy of the appliance people to "please, please, pretty please with a cherry on top" install it for me before Friday.</p> <p>Oh, and my hubby still has not finished shopping (for me), so instead of having him around to help me with the kids (he starts leave today), he is going into shopping centre hell instead. Which means he will arrive home after a number of hours in an incredibly grumpy mood. &lt;Sigh. You know what - I feel so much better for ranting. Sorry Khris, at least you know you aren't alone!&gt;</p> <p>Oh well, I guess we'll be eating salmon and salad for lunch instead.</p> <p>Ultimately we have our health, we (almost) have our sanity and we have each other. I guess really that's ultimately what the day is about, right?! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269395 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:17:53 +0000 RoseandJoan 269395@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm in denial, fortunately I still believe in Santa so everything should be okay </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269391 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:06:36 +0000 chewyspaghetti 269391@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh good- at least I'm not alone! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269379 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:27:21 +0000 Dusty 269379@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Uh, yup. I've got a skirt to finish for DD, a tie for DS that needs to be turned and pressed (and dang is that thing tiny - not so easy to turn), a vest for DD, a tiny top and some shoes for my niece who will be born on Thursday, a pair of tiny pants to hem, two hairbows, a scarf, a felt makeup set to finish, oh and I wanted to make a tie for DH but I'm not sure that's going to happen. Plus, tomorrow is DS' Christmas party for school and I still need to make a bingo game, pack the goodie bags, make a rotation schedule, finish painting some craft sticks and cut out 60 some tiny holly leaves out of felt for the craft project. Oh, yeah, and finish the teacher's Christmas gift (it's sewn I just haven't trimmed the threads and stuffed it with goodies yet. Plus, tonight is DS' school holiday program and DH and/or I will likely be wrapping presents at Macy's on Christmas Eve to raise money for the school (and likely spending the rest of the night wrapping presents for the kids. Oh, and we're hosting Christmas at our house this year for the first time because my BIL and SIL are local and SIL will still be in the hospital with the baby (c-section) so I've got to get the house ready for that and plan, buy and cook dinner (we're having pork roast that I just have to stick in the oven so cooking at least isn't going to be horrible). </p> <p>So, yeah, totally freaking out! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269374 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:19:31 +0000 Anonymous 269374@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I seem to be relatively under control. I still need to get my holiday cards in the mail but that should be done today. Wrapping is half done but I will need to go to the store and get more paper/tape for the other half. Christmas is pretty low-key for us and I have learned over the years how to pace myself. For example, baking stresses me out to the nth degree so I just don't do that any more. And although the holiday card is a big production with a newsletter and 150 copies to send out, its part of my ritual and the one year I skipped it I got major negative blowback so that is a must-do for me. I keep my decorations simple, gifting is low-key. I like to focus on the season....holiday lights, enjoying the solstice, gatherings with friends and family. And if something comes along to take away that joy, I just don't do it anymore. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269363 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:39:54 +0000 Queen Mum 269363@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>mpj.. you better get off the computer and get busy crafting ;-)<br /> ah, I used to be crafty, but then I got old and tired.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269360 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:34:04 +0000 Mamapicklejuice 269360@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>HAHAHAhahahaa...I still have to:<br /> * hem and hand embroider 12 napkins<br /> * create two stamped stationery sets<br /> * sew two pairs of jammie pants for my twin nephews<br /> * wrap everything else</p> <p>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-countdown-to-x-mas-who-else-is-freaking-out#post-269358 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:31:43 +0000 Queen Mum 269358@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I ordered the kids gifts through Amazon and had them shipped to my mom's house... then spent $175 at Target yesterday on socks and underwear (no joke) for stockings. I have a few random stocking stuffers I still want to pick up but other than that I"m done. I've been assigned the green vegetable for Christmas dinner but can't really do anything about that until we get to my mom's house.<br /> My biggest chore now is packing for the week.</p> <p>Oh, and we'll be spending Christmas day in your neck of the woods... maybe I'll see you on the freeway </p>