Subtle Glow

Oh, hi. Sorry - were you here to read something? Because I just thought it was all about the new template. Isn’t it pretty? Yeah, I come here and see my pretty template and then I feel happy and I go do something else (like play toontown, or shop, or slink past the kitchen where the last bits of Thanksgiving dishes are STILL sitting in the sink because I’m too lazy to unload the dishwasher and reload it. Toontown anyone?) and before I know it I’m like, hey I haven’t blogged in awhile. It’s ok. I didn’t really have much worth blogging about (as if this paragraph didn’t already illustrate that). I feel the need to state the obvious from time to time.

The holiday shopping… is 90% done. For the 10% not yet done, I know what I need and it’s something I can pick up on a lunch hour this week. Or buy online.

Also. Why do I have such a hard time shopping for guys? All the cool stuff costs eleventy billion dollars, which leaves… ?? I don’t know what else. In particular, my mom’s husband is impossible to buy for.

EVERY. YEAR. I go through the same dilemma with him - even though I try to look for clues and ideas all year long. I think if there’s one thing that can ruin my anticipation of shopping/gifting, it’s the time I spend trying to find a gift for him - after I have asked him and my mom (separately) multiple times what he would like or what they suggest. He has enough to get himself what he wants, when he wants it. In the event it’s something he has to save up for - he can do that way before I can. I’ve tried instituting a rule that he can’t buy for himself between Thanksgiving and Christmas but I’ve never found the magical way of enforcing it. Last year I was on a mad streak to get myself a bunch of new pajamas. I got him some pajamas, too. He liked them, I guess. But two years in a row? No (but next year for sure, HAHA).

I thought about getting him a cool gadget for his ipod, but he’s got them all - and then some. Bluetooth thingy for his phone? Nope, he bought the sunglasses for that. Part of me thinks I should find something more personal than a gift certificate but then again - I like getting gift certificates and I imagine he’d rather have the option of using it to buy what he wants anyway. Basically I just drive myself crazy year after year trying to avoid getting him a gift certificate but do it in the end - other than last year when I was all, “Pajamas are the awesomest thing ever and you’re getting them, too!”

I called my mom to ask her about it. She said she didn’t know but hey - he really liked the pajamas from last year! Oh. hmmmm.

I bought myself something nice… although I’m really thinking I should just take it back. It’s more than I had planned on spending on my own present, even though it’s the one thing I wanted on my list this year. I can’t find a link to it online or I’d show you. I bought it at Costco and they don’t have it on their website. Apparently it’s like all the Costco’s. They have some overlap but they don’t all have the exact same merchandise - including their online store.

Now I have this present, all wrapped up pretty hiding in the closet with some other stuff to put out for Christmas morning, and I’m thinking about it and the new phone I’m going to get myself in a couple weeks and I just think that even though I can afford both: That still seems like a lot. Maybe I’ll be lucky and get a really good deal on the phone. I suppose if I don’t, I can always take the other present back and just go with the new phone. Honestly though… how likely is that? Uh huh.

I guess I just have to fact the fact that I am spoiled. Yep, that would be me. Then again - who’s doing the spoiling? And who earned the means with which to do the spoiling?

That would also be me.