{"id":557,"date":"2010-12-17T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T12:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=557"},"modified":"2010-12-17T07:44:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T12:44:15","slug":"bah-humbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Bah Humbug!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Like it or not, whether I&#8217;m ready or not, Christmas is quickly approaching. Way too quickly. No motivation, desire, anticipation this year at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I spent last weekend printing, collating, punching and binding my homemade calendars that I do every year for my family here and abroad and wrote Christmas cards to go with them. That&#8217;s been the extent of my preparations for this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Last night when I got home from work, I printed labels for my domestic cards. I&#8217;m off today so the plan is to put the tree up and if time permits, get a bit of shopping done while I&#8217;m &#8220;alone&#8221;. But we&#8217;ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I cancelled my nail appointment last Saturday because of being unwell (I wonder how long the cold\/flu germs will live on those calendars I did?) so re-scheduled for after work on Tuesday. Of course, it picked Tuesday to snow. I made it there in time so there were no worries on that front. I was going to just get my usual French manicure done but the gal who did my nails insisted on giving me a design. So&#8230; here it is.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/100_12282.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-564 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/100_12282-e1292589536130-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/100_12282-e1292589536130-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/100_12282-e1292589536130.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This is the original orientation of the photo I gook of my hand. I&#8217;m not sure how well the design shows up on some of my nails.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Hmmm&#8230; I should look pretty cute assembling and decorating the tree with a pair of blue mechanic&#8217;s latex gloves on. 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