Did the math on wedding gifts tonight and I’m already past $180, with four more to go before Thanksgiving.
Three of them land in the same six-week stretch, which is also when I’ve got grad classes two nights a week on top of my usual shifts. The weddings themselves are fine, it’s just that dress alterations and registry shopping keep getting squeezed into evenings that already end around 9pm.
Knitting after the late class has turned into the one thing that actually resets me before bed (even if my hands are done after 20 minutes or so). Doesn’t fix the schedule, it just makes the drive home feel less like a sprint tacked onto another sprint.
I keep telling myself I’ll finally sit down and sort out a simpler seasonal routine once this wedding stretch is over, but that’s been the plan since August.