So my holiday season was a very difficult one this year. Not only did I deal with my husband being gone, but I also dealt with many other challenges. First, I work retail, and there's always something kooky that happens during the day, and second there's Black Friday. Oh black friday... something I dread every year. In my world it's turned into Black Thursday since many stores have started opening on Thursday night, i.e. Thanksgiving, for crazed shoppers desperate for a good deal. Just so you know, for those of you that do black friday shopping, please don't shop on thanksgiving. If you're out shopping than someone is away from their family at work so they can help you, and no we don't get a choice, and no not all of us have the option to work somewhere else. If no one worked retail there wouldn't be anywhere for you to shop. So please don't do it. Also, please don't apologize to the workers who are working on Thanksgiving whilst you're shopping on Thanksgiving. It creates really awkward moments. And yes, someone really did apologize to me for having to work on Thanksgiving after she bought $200 worth of stuff on Thanksgiving... awkward!
Anyhoozle, my husband being gone this year was incredibly difficult on me. I was so sad, and really, I never actually got into the holidays at all. I wasn't at all excited for Christmas or Thanksgiving, and to me most of it was just like any other day. I think had I had my hubbybear around(my nickname for him is honeybear just FYI) things would have been alot better, and I would have been alot more in the spirit. As if that wasn't enough a week before my chemistry final, and a week before my husband's Christmas package had to be in the mail as well, my car was stolen. Yep. I had my car stolen at the very beginning of December right as I'm trying to get everything together so my honeybear has something from me for Christmas, and getting all prepared for a huge cumulative final. It was awful. I was so upset. The worst part was it was stolen from in front of my complex(I live at the back of a condo complex) in the morning when tons of people should have been driving by. Awesome. It was found and I got it back, but that was a really stressful time, and I'm still somewhat afraid to drive my car for fear that it will be taken again :/
As if that wasn't enough we also though my husband's Christmas package got lost in the mail. Apparently the military post office couldn't be bothered to update the tracking information so it looked as though it had been lost. Thankfully we found out the military just never updated the information for tracking(thanks guys! :/), and it made it to him in time for Christmas, but that was extremely upsetting especially considering at that point I hadn't gotten my car back yet(there was drama with getting the wheel that got bent fixed thanks to my insurance company screwing up...), and I'd worked so hard to get that package together in spite of everything that had happened.
To top it all off upon going to my father in law's house, who has been kind enough to store stuff for my husband including his car, to pick up my husband's car since mine was MIA I found out he'd put his house on the market without telling myself or my husband. Clearly there wasn't enough stress on my life yet. So far the house hasn't sold, and we'll see what happens with that.
That pretty much was my holiday season. I for one am very glad that it's over. It was utter chaos and filled with a ton of ups and downs and really was just not a good holiday season at all. The hardest part was dealing with all of this without my husband being around. My family isn't always the best support system, and in situations where things are really hard I always find myself wishing that I had my honeybear to help get me through :/
Thankfully a new year has started and in about 6 months my boy will be home :) I can't even wait :D
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