Month: December 2005

I really really want one of these recycled book journals. If only I could decide which one!

Man, I had to turn off commenting today. I was getting HAMMERED by spammers. I think I got 10 spam comments in a row in a 5 minute span, and I didn’t see an end in sight so I just shut off comments. I have shut off comments in prior months, I may leave them open in November and October. We’ll see.

Why do I feel like this month is going by WAY too fast? I have so many things on my to do list that I need a to do list for updating the to do list. Unfortunately some of them have to be done NOW if I want them for Christmas. Better get going, huh? Maybe if I fuel myself with some chicken lo mein and miniature Charleston Chews…

We did head out for more shopping this morning. I was very happy with Junior because he really was focussed on getting stuff for people other than himself. He has a very hard time with that normally, and it’s tiring to go shopping with him because he wants everything in site. Today we bought something for my niece and for my friend’s daughters and I know he wanted one, but he was very good when only two boxes went into the cart. We also finished up my step-son…Mr. Dump and I got his big gift last night, and Junior got him a present.

I don’t think there were as many people out as I would have expected. Did everyone finish already, or is everyone buying online? I think we’re at about 60% online this year. And you?

What, you think I’m going to post that here? What if Junior suddenly starts reading the Dump? Well that wouldn’t fly, now would it?

Oh, and I was going to tell you about a present I bought for myself (but will give to Mr. Dump to wrap and say it’s from him, or Junior, or the doginator) but I just realized that I bought two of these items, one for my step-daughter who DOES read the Dump so I’ll be darned if I’m going to blow the surprise. Sheesh. That was a close one.

Looking at the budget, we can probably do a little more shopping this weekend, maybe I can get my niece and nephew and my friend’s two daughters out of the way, so I can focus on Junior and the step-kids when we get the rest of our shopping $$ on the 16th. I hate having to wait that late in the month for Junior because he always wants the trendy stuff that they run out of. He’s 80% done now, though, so even if something happened and we couldn’t spend another dime on Christmas, Santa would have a nice selection of items from his list. And some things he didn’t ask for but will like anyway, darn it!

(Can I be frank? I can’t wait until he learns where the Santa gifts come from, because it will be nice to be able to streamline his list and tell him that no, Santa isn’t going to bring him a jet car (a real one, not a toy) or an XBOX 360 because I’m not shelling out $400 for a game console. He’s kind of asked about it a little bit over the past year, but I haven’t heard a peep now that it’s close and he’s got his list all written out. He turns 8 in a month (ACK!) and I think he’s really edging close to figuring it out.)