Spent some of yesterday out Christmas Shopping. Started around 9:30 a.m…. finished around 3:30 p.m. when we went to get the kids from school. Take and hour out for coffe, lunch and afternoon tea and we spent 5 hours wandering around a shopping mall that’s new to us.
What did we buy? Well it’s hard to say. We had no clear plan to begin with as we have no idea *what* to get anyone… so as we wandered we just picked up what looked reasonable and stuck it in the trolley. The inevitable result was we spent a fortune… and next to nothing and have a completely unbalanced selection of gifts.
We need ‘balance’ in gift purchase… kids are dreadfully jealous about what the other receives. What’s worse, even if they get the same thing the other one always has a better version no matter what it is 😀
Anyway. We’ve made a start… and once we’ve sat around and had another look at the stuff we can decide if and what we ought to get to sort out the potential issues before they arrive… we hope. Still have to get things for other people… lord knows what.
I know *I’m* ok… I got my PDA 🙂 In addition I bought a phone card for one of our handsets so the oldies can use it to call use while they’re here. I have to configure the options on it as well, so I have enough to carry on with and keep me happy and occupied for months.
Time to start thinking about food again… bit of a pain since I’ll not be able to eat that much of it this year… and I’ve already filled the store cupboard with choccies, and the like. Bugger.
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