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Dec. 14th, 2005 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spokeSo. Due to my timely panicking about not wanting to be stuck in hideous awful holiday-panic traffic. And lines. And have to listen to cranky people, possibly fighting over things. (it'll happen, I work retail - I've seen pregnant women try to fight each other over a place in a layaway line o.o; )
Anyway! The point of all that is this: I am done with munchkin-shopping for Christmas! And almost everybody else, everything else I need to do I can pick up at work, except hunting for a tree. ^_^ Only my intended budget was something around the $120 that I'd saved up in change, and between the first present and the desire to keep things even I went nearly twice that. o.o I am trying not to think about the money, beyound telling myself I will not take my savings below x.amount, and I'll start working on building it back up during the rest of the year. I mean... I'm still waiting for general bills to come in, here.
Next year I need to do a Chirstmas club account, or something. >.>
But in the pursuit of getting a really cool Lego set for Nathaniel the eldest nephew, I ended up somehow deciding to go out to the Avenues, the biggest mall within any resonable distance from me. I have never had an easier time finding something! XD I suspect part of it was having gotten myself familair with the I-10 to 95 switchovers? But mostly it was just right outside the highway. With signs to help you find it, even! Sadly, the mall itself was not as cool. They have no bookstore in there. This? This is blasphemy, I tell you! Evil! Where are people to get their readables to sustain them as they stand in the hateful Lines of Doom come crunch-shopping time?! What is wrong with a mall that doesn't even have a teeny tiny bookstore in it!!! Two coffee-places (Starbucks and Barnie's) and no bookstore. For shame.
Clearly something is seriously amiss there. >:P
However, going up and down the escalators between the two levels was fun. I might even end up driving back out, to take some pretty pictures (or try at least) of the trees and the steps between the two levels of parking lots. Though I'm not sure the moon will be in the right place for it, in which case I'd have to go back out again, tomorrow evening. :D
All I got out of the mall was a nice cup of coffee. The Toys'R'Us next to it, however! ^__^ I'm so relieved to have this done. Now all I need to worry about is the tree purchasing and the wrapping of gifts and my sister's present, which we picked out already - a coffee pot. How hard is that going to be, really? ;p
...I have this feeling I'm missing something I meant to post about. *shrugs* If I am, I'll remember sometime. *basks in the current success of her days off*
ps - Munchkin pictures will be forth-coming, when I've figured out how to use red-eye removal without having thier eyes look pasted on. >:P
Anyway! The point of all that is this: I am done with munchkin-shopping for Christmas! And almost everybody else, everything else I need to do I can pick up at work, except hunting for a tree. ^_^ Only my intended budget was something around the $120 that I'd saved up in change, and between the first present and the desire to keep things even I went nearly twice that. o.o I am trying not to think about the money, beyound telling myself I will not take my savings below x.amount, and I'll start working on building it back up during the rest of the year. I mean... I'm still waiting for general bills to come in, here.
Next year I need to do a Chirstmas club account, or something. >.>
But in the pursuit of getting a really cool Lego set for Nathaniel the eldest nephew, I ended up somehow deciding to go out to the Avenues, the biggest mall within any resonable distance from me. I have never had an easier time finding something! XD I suspect part of it was having gotten myself familair with the I-10 to 95 switchovers? But mostly it was just right outside the highway. With signs to help you find it, even! Sadly, the mall itself was not as cool. They have no bookstore in there. This? This is blasphemy, I tell you! Evil! Where are people to get their readables to sustain them as they stand in the hateful Lines of Doom come crunch-shopping time?! What is wrong with a mall that doesn't even have a teeny tiny bookstore in it!!! Two coffee-places (Starbucks and Barnie's) and no bookstore. For shame.
Clearly something is seriously amiss there. >:P
However, going up and down the escalators between the two levels was fun. I might even end up driving back out, to take some pretty pictures (or try at least) of the trees and the steps between the two levels of parking lots. Though I'm not sure the moon will be in the right place for it, in which case I'd have to go back out again, tomorrow evening. :D
All I got out of the mall was a nice cup of coffee. The Toys'R'Us next to it, however! ^__^ I'm so relieved to have this done. Now all I need to worry about is the tree purchasing and the wrapping of gifts and my sister's present, which we picked out already - a coffee pot. How hard is that going to be, really? ;p
...I have this feeling I'm missing something I meant to post about. *shrugs* If I am, I'll remember sometime. *basks in the current success of her days off*
ps - Munchkin pictures will be forth-coming, when I've figured out how to use red-eye removal without having thier eyes look pasted on. >:P
