Christmas time, Pet supplies and wine

Stress level today: 4 grey hairs

Its been a busy week even without Christmas rearing its glittery bonce. We're holding our breath for the sudden slump in sales as the last posting date goes whooshing by. So far people still seem keen on spending even though theres no hope of getting anything until after Christmas. I'm definately not one to stand in the way of peoples festive fiscal frivolity. We are having a sweep stake on the number of orders we will recieve on Christmas day. I'm going for an optomistic 2.
On the home front stress levels are definately rising despite frequent dampening down with alcoholic beverages. Several christmas presents have still not arrived despite being ordered a week and a half ago from a well known Brazillian river named website. I hope our service isn't that bad when we get that big! Oh well theres still Christmas Eve for them to arrive, be wrapped and distributed. It will give Karl something to do when the Post Office shuts.
If Christmas isn't stressfull enough I still haven't written the essay for my Post graduate diploma due in on the 6th January. The ignoring it and hope it will go away tactic so far hasn't worked but I have started carrying the thing around with me hoping that it will guilt me into action so some words may appear soon on a page near here!
Happier news - we've decided on a christmas present for our baby (www.ardentpets.co.uk). We are having our first big New Year sale starting on Christmas day so lots of new people can be introduced to the Ardent Pets experience. Come back next week to see how we get on!