A week to go. I always find this an odd time, this week between my wildly frenetic birthday celebrations and the even greater hullabaloo of Christmas Day. The lull before the storm, albeit a lull filled with rushing hither and thither, with trying to complete final preparations and to start things hitherto completely forgotten. There is the niggling concern of whether I have bought too many presents or not enough, of whether I have been scrupulously even-handed or shamefully lop-sided, of whether I have focused too much on some trivial tasks (gifts for the family) while neglecting more important ones (food for the family).
At least I have only one day left at work before the festivities. But that itself creates a pressure, as I consider all that needs to be done in the next few days. Perhaps I need to compile a few lists, with everything carefully organised and costed in terms of my time and energy, so that I can get through the coming week as efficiently and effectively as possible. A Gantt chart would be ideal: tasks, timelines, dependencies, resource requirements, milestones. This would be the perfect solution to make things literally breeze along. Only, given I never quite manage to create them successfully at work, it doesn't seem all that likely that I will manage any better at home.
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