XXXmas

I do believe that it was about a week ago that someone said (probably my mom) that Christmas was "in a week and a half". Which really hit home for me, since I apparently believe that time does not pass, and that the fateful day was not arriving at full tilt. And I work retail. Go figure.
Since I am a huge snob and will not give store-bought gifts unless they are books or CDs, I am caught up in crazy craft-mania, which is not a bad place for a girl like me to be. Funnily enough, Michelle and I had the exact same idea for our stock crafted Xmas present, and came home last night to find out we were working on the exact same thing for each other.

Still on my list is our family friend Roy, a libertarian with a long white beard and sort of bizarre sense of humor. He's spending Christmas with us (along with his wife Jane, a crafty woman who REALLY needs her own blog) and I am stumped as to a gift under 10$ that I can get him. I may have to fall back on the old standby of "a-book-which-i-heard-that-people-in-your-age-bracket-with-your-political-leanings-really-enjoy".
Thank god I do this kind of thing 154 hours a month.