You know how
yesterday we expected to get slammed, and then it was cold and snowy and rainy
and the line was totally manageable?
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA.
Today it was warm
and not snowy or rainy and everyone who didn't come yesterday came today and
the line was 3 hours long. From the beginning of the day, we tried to get
ahead of the line in the Village. It was difficult as three people were out
sick (one person was in the ER!) and Santa had three different events today.
Shortcake's ideal schedule was shot to the South Pole. But then
Shortcake strawbossed that dirty snow and made it better and strutted her stuff
and had her very own dance party.
However.
There were still moments during the day when Shortcake is needed three
places at once and people are talking to her from two directions and the
headset is talking, and she's moving quickly with Santa - trying not to ruin
Christmas - and she sometimes snaps at elves. Or even Santa. She
doesn't mean it in a mean way, but more in a short, efficient way. So she
apologized to everyone afterward. But she didn't feel too bad about
because sometimes, not often, but sometimes, Shortcake needs to be a dictator
to get her job done. She always tries to be a benevolent dictator.
Sometimes she fails.
Often the gatekeeper will pass on a special request from a family
via a very fancy technology known as the "doorbell." And often
times it will be rung when Santa is already
in a house. So then Shortcake just yells into the universe "He's
IN the house!" It makes her feel better.
Shortcake may have ruined Christmas today. She went to visit
Santa and there was a kid with a lot of questions. A lot of questions. Like
"What is this present? Where do you live? What do you do with
this?" And finally the kid left, and Shortcake went to Santa to check his
hat and took his hat off his head, and
the kid popped back into the house with a question. "Do you have
Thomas?" Which, of course, Shortcake heard as "Do you have a
comet?" So not only did she not know what he was saying, she felt
like she had just been caught in a clandestine pose because she was standing
with Santa while he wasn't
wearing a hat. Santa handled it very gracefully and sent the kid on
his way, while Shortcake stood there kinda frozen. After the kid left,
Shortcake helped Santa put his hat back on.
For some reason, Shortcake is not good at remembering the elves' names this year. She tries to call them by the right name, but then... She calls someone Trollop. Which is not an elf name. Especially when the elf's real name is Toffee.
Remember Spatula?
She got married today! To someone she met at Santaland! And because of that Tumbleweed worked a double today because Peppercorn, Ruby and Gingersnap were all at the wedding. So Tumbleweed made puppy chow. Which was delicious.
Remember the TMNT conversation from yesterday?
Santa gave Shortcake a Raphael toy!
Look! Santa was featured in a Cubs fan's Christmas card! Go Cubs!
Shortcake's friends came to visit Santa. Isla was super into it, but Anderson was a little wary.
Santa said something very sweet to Shortcake today. He said that the love and care the strawbosses show for Santa gets passed on to how he treats the elves and the visitors. He said everything starts with the strawbosses.
Shortcake's
family celebrated Christmas today. Why, yes,yes, it is a week early.
It's a large family, and this was the only day they could all get
together. So Shortcake called, expecting to spend an hour on the phone
talking to each aunt and uncle and cousin. Instead she talked to an aunt,
and two cousins and then got hung up on because the grandkids were opening
presents. As soon you go through puberty, the family doesn't care
anymore. (This is not to imply Shortcake recently went through puberty.
Shortcake went through puberty yeeeeeeears ago. She is closer to
menopause than puberty at this point.) (Sorry if that broke your bubble.
Shortcake is, in fact, an adult female. Adult females do, in fact,
have menopause.) It's a harsh world.
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