Christmas Is A-Comin'

Christmas is right around the corner and I had almost forgotten how much of a hit it takes to ones wallet. I think next year I'm just going to Scrooge it up and stick with $15 of less gifts for EVERYBODY. I did make a little more money with overtime recently so that's a bit of help there.

One thing that has changed this year is that I won't be spending the morning with my family, but with Taje's. It's not really a huge thing for me not to be there on Christmas (I think), but it will feel a bit different as this will be the first time I'm not there. But hell, it was bound to happen sometime. That is one of the exchanges of being in a relationship with somewhere, not being able to spend all holidays with everyone you want. My folks will be fine with it I'm sure, since all we do is open presents and then go to our rooms to admire the presents. Thanksgiving is actually a bigger holiday for us and we spent it this year with them. Only thing now is that I need to eventually tell them I won't be there next weekend...

I've completed pretty much all the shopping I wanted to do, with maybe the exception of picking up something or other for some other friends maybe this weekend sometime but it's not a big deal. All the major players are taken care of and it's now just a matter of waiting on all the presents to be delivered and/or wrapped. I've got all that wrapping paper stuff ready, just need to find the time to do it. We've also got our little Christmas tree put up. It's nothing major since we just live in a little condo and I'm not looking on getting anything huge, just a 3' tall artificial one that came with lights attached. Doesn't look that bad. Some little stockings hung, maybe throw some tinsel around the place and we are ready to go.