Sellotape is everywhere.

  Christmas is the time of year, no doubt, when most rolls of wrapping paper, sellotape and gift tags are sold.
  Getting ready, wrapping presents, decorating the tree, even cooking the cakes for the family gets tiring. - They do their own things to prepare for Christmas, mine was to bake the cake, decorate the Christmas tree and sort out my presents and who they were going to. -
   The best part of my jobs would be decorating the tree. I get to 'style' it how I want it to be, with the colours I want and the decorations in certain places. - If any of my family touched or changed the decorations or even insulted it I would have launched a 'festive' miniature Christmas tree at them.
   The worst? The worst would definitely be wrapping the presents, although I enjoy wrapping square objects or things in a box, wrapping odd shapes like pentagons and circles are just plain frustrating to me. Either the wrapping paper admits defeat by ripping or I do and resort to getting my mother's help - I hate to do this because she seems to have the technique to do it quickly and efficiently whilst making it look easy.

   Wrapping my closest friend's presents is what I had most difficulty with. I used a whole roll of wrapping paper on about 7-8 presents. Multiple pieces on two due to the awkward shape of the container. Not only did the paper appear to be giving in but the sellotape wasn't even starting. - The end of the sellotape is evil to find, it blends in too well. Once it's found I will normally cut off about ten small pieces and put it down then curse at myself because I will have to spend at least twenty minutes trying to find it again. - Whilst enduring all this tediousness of the paper then the sellotape, my cat is sprawled out on my bed with it's taunting eyes fixed on my movements. The smug look made me want to throw a piece of paper at it, mainly to distract it for a few moments. Having all my family presents sorted, I needed to focus on the last one. This was by far the worst present to wrap I have ever come across. The hexagon shaped container made holes every single time in the paper, no matter how many layers I used. I was close to admitting defeat until I thought about a routine of doing things.
   Maybe that's all I need in the future, a routine to set me on my way, what do you think? Yes? No? Oh well it works for me.
   ~ Soph.