Christmas shopping...

Candie wrote: »

I love Christmas, and I buy things ALL YEAR ROUND for it. And I even wrap them when I buy them.

If anyone has a problem with that, I'll beat them up.

I bring gifts to people during the year. When it means something to me. I will suddenly show up at a friends house with a gift for the first day I met that person - or I will show up with a bottle of tequila on the anniversary of their worst hangover - or I will challenge them to a game of something on the anniversary of a day when they or I beat the other at some other game - and so on and so on -

I am big on keeping dates on calendars that mean something to me - them - or even better - both of us.

All of which excuses me in the eyes of most people who know me from my most obvious foible. Which is that I NEVER acknowledge - or gift - anyone on official calendar days. No one outside my family gets anything on birthdays or Christmas - valentines or Easter - I am spared the rush of the hungry hoard during festivities.

And to my joy most people who know me well respond in kind. I never get gifts of phone calls at xmas or my birthday. Rather I receive them at points in the calendar that hold some relevance to me, the person offering it, or both of us.

I am sure hallmark would hate me if I was relevant at all