I am DONE with Christmas shopping now, having bought the last two gifts this afternoon (including the fortuitous discovery of a Shaggy chiaTM head for sale). Now begins the wrapping and worrying about delivery of my two remaining internet orders.

I also shouted at a half-witted woman in an SUV who was driving through a parking lot as if she were the only person in the world, so maybe it's best that the shopping is over.

My grocery order was just delivered, and they didn't have any of the laundry detergent I ordered. I guess there will be no laundry doing for me today.

I really wish when they run out of something you've ordered they would bring a substitute and give you the option. It's so frustrating when you order a big grocery order and then you don't get something you need like bread, or detergent, and you have to go to the damn store anyway.

My first foray into xmas shopping didn't go well. But I did find and hang new curtains that I've been hoping to get to forever.

Just got back from my conference. It was good and bad. Will splain more when I'm not on the sidekick.

I have not even started my Christmas shopping. I plan to do it all next week. It'll be much easier since my family decided to do only gifts for the kids this year. But I still need to buy something for the DH. Sigh. I've been the most unmotivated Santa ever this year. Lucky for me I love last minute mall madness. I have to start sharping up the 'bows.

I doublechecked the credits on this last episode of Alias, and yes, no Olin. Does that bolster your suspicion, Jessica? It strikes me as weird if they stitched it together from stuff they had on hand, especially if there was no consent (I mean, don't they need to show her again to resolve it? Why would the actress appear? Then again, this is Alias) but it's weird that she wasn't in the credits too.

Either way, oddness.

I really wish when they run out of something you've ordered they would bring a substitute and give you the option.

Giant will do this, if you check off the right feature in your profile. Well, they won't bring the substitute and give you the option, but they'll just include the substitute in your order.

I'm sure there was consent, but I think it must have been a last-minute change, unless they used old footage to keep her name out of the credits?

Either way, I'm standing by my she was never on set that day assertion. It just looked too weird.

Either way, it'd be nice it Peapod did that. It's really annoying. No Giant around here.

Freshdirect doesn't substitute either, they just leave shit out. It's annoying as hell.

Either way, it'd be nice it Peapod did that. It's really annoying. No Giant around here.

I thought Peapod and Giant were the same company. Or, anyway, the place I order from is "Peapod by Giant" or something like that. The option is buried way under some menus, and for a lot of things, you have to manually specify what the substitute should be, but it's there. (I discovered this when I realized that they only ever actually had one brand of organic milk, but listed two, and I finally just put each one as the substitute for the other, since their software didn't automatically do it.)