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December 18, 2004
proceeding forward cheerfully in all directions
(and georg is the only person who is going to know who i am paraphrasing there)
impromptu shopping trip with m. and xa last night. i was surprised to discover that christmas shopping is much less painful a) with friends and b) on friday night (as opposed to saturday or sunday afternoon).
this year, the only people who wanted to participate in the family gift exchange were me and my cousin megan, who is in her early 20's and recently bought a condo. after many years of shopping for my grandpa, i'm finding this is an amazing treat. i mean, i love my grandpa, and i miss him and i wish he were here for me to shop for him still, but shopping for megan is totally fun. i found her a very adorable handbag at camerons, and i'm going to look for house accoutrement stuff at pier one today. she's setting up a new household, she's going to need some nice house stuff!
in fact, this is making me appreciate how insanely difficult every member of my family is to shop for, except my mom who is nice enough to provide a list. i've been through many ideas for my brothers, including digital cameras (they didn't want them-- what the???) i finally gave up and i'm just giving them a couple of chocolate bars and some money. no wonder i don't enjoy christmas.
so i woke up this morning excited about shopping for megan. and my bacon turned out perfect and crispy. ok, proceed with cheerfulness!
Posted by lisa at December 18, 2004 09:37 AM | TrackBack
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who wouldn't want digital cameras?! they're the funnest toy ever!
Posted by: alicia on December 18, 2004 11:09 AM
my brothers: most boring guys in the world.
i tried, i swear, i tried. maybe they're rebelling against being interesting.
Posted by: lisa on December 18, 2004 01:07 PM
My strategy for uncooperative gift recipients is to give them stuff I think is cool, regardless of what they think. I also try to coerce people into making an amazon wish list, in hopes it will give me ideas. Worst case scenario -- threaten to give a gift of money in their name to a charity, especially one they wouldn't support. That'll get them to fork over a list of stuff they want. ;-)
Posted by: Steph Mineart on December 20, 2004 10:37 AM
hah!! that is too good-- i will have to remember that!
Posted by: lisa on December 20, 2004 10:46 AM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.