Ergh – Christmas is coming!
Now there are lots of things that are great about xmas – but really there is a lot of stress also…
I rather liked this article in the SMH from last weekend that says you’re either Martha Stewart or Jimmy Stewart… If you buy perfect well planned presents for everyone and have them all beautifully wrapped by now – Martha – if you’re running around grabbing anything on Dec 24 – Jimmy….
I’m firmly in the latter camp.
I really hate xmas shopping – in fact I might have to hand in my girl card cause I don’t really like any sort of shopping to be honest… oh – maybe food or wine shopping – but for other things it’s usually a quick raid with a particular thing in mind – okay that thing may be new Chanel nailpolish… but I almost never just go “looking” at stuff…
So anyway – the pressure of xmas shopping is when you have a “Martha” or two on your list – you know that they’ve planned out some perfect thing – and running into Myer and just grabbing some shiny box isn’t really going to cut it 🙁
A few times I’ve done the whole charity gift thing – you know give Unicef $50 they’ll save some children from certain death – which should be fine – but you can tell from people’s faces that what they *really* wanted was something personal and really cool and special… bugger the warm inner glow…