mapsedge: (scowl)
mapsedge ([personal profile] mapsedge) wrote2006-12-26 10:48 am

Christmas depression?

Mine always hits after Christmas. Why you ask?

hurrybusyhurrybusyhurrybusyhurrybusyhurrybusyhurryhurryhurrybusybusybusyokaydone.

That slam-on-the-brakes-after-a-month-of-breakneck-speed thing. Ouch.

Thankfully, I'm back into my normal routine which always helps, and possessed of a completely torn up basement to work on, which also helps.

The Challenge: I made the mistake of not properly covering the basement wall where I want to work, so I have no idea where my attachment points are. I want to create a workstation for MIDI and audio, a rack hinged so that I can swing it out from the wall to access the back where all the wires are (or will be). To do that will require a very strong base to work from and I have no idea where the "studs" are. I'm thinking I may very well just get some extra long concrete screws and go straight through the drywall/wood into the concrete block behind. That'd do 'er.

Go to Lowe's over lunch to price the pieces.

The problem is that there is work that needs to be done, and setting up the rack is the first piece of it: until that's done everything else has to wait.

Situation normal.

[identity profile] hdsqrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-26 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, and thank you. Me too. Methinks comfort food (i.e. biscuits) is in order. ;p

[identity profile] mljm.livejournal.com 2006-12-26 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Biscuits I can do... I'll even share the recipe.

A few days of getting back into the swing of things will make our lives a lot better. Another thing that leads to the depression is the expectation factor of holidays. I also hope I did good by my gifts and offerings (food, hospitality, company, etc) and it takes time for me to get back to normal too.

I love Christmas, but it even gets to me. Today (being the first normal day after the holiday) is a hard one to get through for me too.

[identity profile] hdsqrl.livejournal.com 2006-12-26 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, no-no-no...I don't want the recipe. I want to come to your house and eat the ones YOU make. ;) I think if I tried to make them, that they'd lose their magic.

*sad at the thought* ;)

[identity profile] starseeking.livejournal.com 2006-12-27 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
If you go to Rowans, get her to make sausage cookies..they're droolrific.

[identity profile] aerie13.livejournal.com 2006-12-26 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I hear ya.

[identity profile] rowangolightly.livejournal.com 2006-12-26 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep, here too...not badly, but a bit.

And Megan, honey, you can come here for biscuits, too. Heck, either of us can show you how to do biscuits; they're really quite easy!

*Smochies* to all of you!

[identity profile] grizesme.livejournal.com 2006-12-27 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
I call it runrunrun fall down. I have a bit of that today but it's more tired to the bone than depression. Which for me is a nice change this year.