…Christmas is almost here.  Only 5 days (of madness?) to go.  The supermarket was busy enough yesterday, I can’t imagine how bad it will be this weekend.  I don’t feel very Christmassy yet – I don’t know why.  Up until the weekend I was still worrying about what to get people for Christmas.  Husband finished his shopping a couple of weeks ago and he is quite smug about that.  I had most of my shopping done, there were just the difficult people to buy for i.e. the ones that you have no idea what they would like.  Anyway, it’s almost finished now.  Just a couple of small things to get and I can breathe a sigh of relief.  I think we get far too stressed about this time of year.  I know I do but then I get far too stressed about a lot of things.  There we go, New Year’s Resolution #1: Try not to stress.  Failed to keep my one resolution this year: learn to drive.  So Resolution #2: learn to drive; Resolution #3: keep New Year’s resolutions. 

We’re spending Christmas in Perth this year but we’ll be back in Glasgow for Hogmanay.  I’m one of the lucky people who is off work for a week-and-a-half (one advantage to working in a college library).  I’m looking forward to spending time with family and friends, especially people we don’t see that often.