It’s a slightly bitter story today, but life’s not always a party. The bad days are what make the good days feel better.
Sometime Christmas feels like it starts earlier every year, pine trees in may, Santa in August and Mariah in June. For me, this year has been different, its been busy at work and we’ve had lots of hassle at home and suddenly it’s only 12 days until Christmas day.
So I thought, what a nice plan it would be if I organised some ice skating with work this year. Lots of people told me they would like to go – saying things like they always wanted to go and nobody will go with them. So I decided ‘I can solve this problem’ and i found a date when we could go. I even emailed a few of them before I arranged it to check they wanted to. A chance to emulate Torville and Dean -yes please.
And yet, here we are. We supposed to be going tomorrow. I’ve bought my ticket and I’m ready. And gradually the people have been dropping out. But they don’t say, I can’t go, not at first. They try and soften the blow in the most obvious ways. Message 1 – ‘can I just check how many people are going?’, Message 2 – ‘I can’t go’. Or the classic – message 1 – ‘I think I might be coming down with a sickness bug’ message 2 ‘I can’t go’.
So tomorrow, it may be just me. However, I can’t take this personally. Everyone has been really busy and I understand. I’m gonna make the best of it, and maybe someone will turn up. This ultimate opportunity for me to have a broken leg for Christmas, and I’m not gonna give it up.
I’m also gonna try and bring the stream with me. I’m not sure how happy they will be about me recording but I’ll give it a try if I can. And if you can’t come to stream – remember to make a lame excuse beforehand!
On the slightly brighter side, Amazon gave me a £20 refund on my air fryer.