Decemberitis

I can feel it.  My stomach is tight, and I have been grinding my teeth during

the night again.  I can tell because my jaw aches.  Best get a mouthgard.


When you are in retail, December is always full of anxiousness.  More so

this year, with retail sales still gloomy. While everyone else is attending

holiday  parties, cheerfully hanging tinsel on their tree, and wrapping gifts

while they  listen to classic Christmas songs, I am monitoring our TV

commercial  schedule, filling out gift card orders that I scoot to the airport

post office  before last pick-up at 7 pm, and wishing I had time to make

some gifts.


I guess I could have done that in July.  It's not like I don't know that

December is coming.


And I don't mean to grumble-it's just that Christmas loses some of it's glow

when you rely on it to keep you afloat.


But we may receive some good news this December, and if we do it will be a

very merry Christmas indeed.   Send some positive retail  thoughts our way

this month, won't you?