So we're now at the 3rd day of Christmas (cost of 3 French hens this year, $181.50, FWIW), presumably with the gifts dispersed and received, as appropriate, fitting, or otherwise, and all the wrapping paper tossed in the trash (unless it's recyclable - not that most people would bother with such things, but 3CM digresses, as usual). That's the case here. I happened to notice a few small things when I was shopping for Christmas gifts for my brother's kids, with an air of closing about them. More (well, not really) below the flip.....
The small things were that:
(1) I finally used up a roll of holiday wrapping paper that I bought years ago.
(2) I used up all the store credit that I had built up at the one hybrid new/used book store to get a book for my nephew.
Of course, neither of these things is a big deal, as:
(3) I have a limited supply of other wrapping paper on hand for future gifts.
(4) Once I read more books and trade them in (assuming the book store accepts them), then I can start building up trade credit at the book store again, hopefully starting next month.
But it's kind of an odd coincidence that both things happen to get used up at the same time, at the time of year when it's generally part of the routine to take stock of the year. One can almost overhead an element of 'starting fresh' in those items, as trivial as they are. Really starting fresh would involve a massive clean-out of the paper items that are scattered all around my place, sort of a perpetual New Year's resolution that I never get around to fulfilling.
Of course, I have to get back to my place after time with the family, but that's another story. With that, time for the usual SNLC protocol, namely your loser stories for the week, which I gather will mostly revolve around Christmas in some way…..