Sarameg brings the Christmas miracle!

Hey, my vice is your redemption!

msbelle, I know it is trying, but I rejoice at that rebellious stuff. (update more! more!) I was hesitant to mention his little shows of comfortability/pushy as yay before so as I didn't sound all never-had-a-kid-yet-advicey. I've only a history in talking with another friend with a stepson with serious, serious baggage issues. Abandonment, neglect, etc. It's quite ridic when I tear up because a teenage boy is acting like a normal teenage boy ass. But I have to point it out to her. His being an ass is a function of his age, not his baggage! And that's good! We want ass-ness! It means he feels safe! Rejoice the ass-ness! It just reassures us that he is Home.

Which is to day, sorry it's been a rough day, but I'm also grinning that he's getting Home.

hey, shrift! Will you do Christmas shopping for me too?

Depends, Kat. Will people think you suck if you get them nothing but gift cards? So far only my mother has an actual present to open.

I still have stuff to get for my family. iPod, sports bras, men's underwear.

Not Christmas gifts, just part of the standard "going back to Jamaica" stuff. It means at least one trip to the mall, and either an Apple store or Fry's. Why the fuck didn't I do this on the internet? Maybe when I'm out I'll get inspiration for that one gift instead of a headache.

I've been napping fitfully so far this evening. I gotta get up to hydrate (colds suck) and check my voicemail. Suddenly the apartment is too big.

Kat, I second your emotion. Both of them--the crappiness and the shrift shopping.

Who are OKGO?

My brother is pro-gift cards. Though he's taken care of (sans gift cards this year) wanna get him next year, shrift? (hee, shrift the Santa of GCs.)

Dude, you guys! The grocery store and drug store have tons of gift cards for other places! Home Depot, iTunes, Macy's, local food chains, JC Penney, Visa and Mastercard check cards that are like cash!

So far today I have done my Christmas shopping at Walgreens on my lunch break, and at the grocery store while I was picking up cat food and light bulbs.

For my mom and sister I will probably get physical gifts, if only because they're big into Christmas and don't ask for things like drill bit sharpeners.

Will people think you suck if you get them nothing but gift cards?

HA! are you kidding! people would LOVE for me to give them gift cards. Actually I just need to get something for my bro and his wife. Which will be a gift card.

Shrift of the Santa Gift Cards would be AWESOME. I'd pay to watch that every year around thanksgiving.

But I don't even want to go to a store and pick!

Shrift, the thought of getting to the grocery store or to the drugstore is overwhelming.

The stores I've been to over the past week include only Ann Taylor (return) and Staples. Neither of which are appropriate gift certificate stuff for my brother and SIL.

But I don't even want to go to a store and pick!

MWAH! I love sarameg.

Sarameg, what do I get for your parents for christmas?