Christmas Shopping

[LikeAWillow]

/whatever holiday you celebrate.

How's it going? Have you found any good deals? Are you braving the stores or shopping online? Are you done yet?

I just really started shopping today. American Eagle had some great deals, so I picked up sweaters for my best friend, my boyfriend, and my friend John-- no, I don't know when I turned into that aunt who has a lot of cats and horrible taste in gifts, but it did give me an excuse to text our very own Liam McConville from the mall and harass him about what sizes he wears. Thank you, Fleetwood Mac, for bringing men into my life with identical body types to my friends. The best friend is also getting some sort of Bath and Body Works lotion, the boyfriend a nice biography on Gerard Manley Hopkins, and John a book called The Ten Cent Plague (he's a comic book fiend.)

I still have to figure out what to get for my mom...if anyone has any suggestions for a beautiful but out of her mind 51 year old woman who greeted me at the airport with six new tattoos, a nose piercing, and the classiest hair/make up you'll ever see in your life, please let me know. She's currently engaged to a man who asked me to get him a mailbox for Christmas, if that helps your suggestions at all.

Also, does anyone else have a problem with the 1:1 present buying ratio? By this I mean, for every gift I buy someone else, I buy one for myself as well. Yes, that does mean I got three sweaters today.