Christmas Shopping
So I’m ill. Well, I’m on the mend, anyway. The doctor has signed me off until Monday and I do actually feel better today, for the first time in a few days (I thought I was getting over it last Sunday, but then The Cough hit).
So, Kathy helpfully suggested things I might like to do this afternoon. They were (IIRC):
- Wrap Christmas presents
- Write Christmas cards
- Buy Christmas presents for Kathy
The third option sounded like the most entertaining, so that’s what I did. I have the act of present-buying quite easy, really: Kathy buys for everyone else; I buy for Kathy. Bliss—except for the fact that I am the world’s worst (or should that be best?) procrastinator.
As such, I always like to buy my presents as close to Christmas as possible, mainly because I hate the way in which shops and malls have progressively dragged the start of the season further and further forward. But this leaves me in a quandary: I also hate hearing rubbish Christmas music like I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day (do you really? I don’t think so!) by Slade. So, like the cat with toast on its back, I am left hovering in indecision between the two forks of the dilemma. Or something.
Until now, of course. I have just bought most of Kathy’s presents online. There are a few more to get, but at least one of them (thankfully) is sold by a small independent shop in Bath, and as such will (hopefully) be free of Christmas Musical Tat, or CMT for short.
Which reminds me: I’d like to walk into one of the "Christmas Shops" (fly-by-night purveyors of Christmas-related tackiness) and say "Hi! I’d like to buy a Christmas, please!"
UPDATE
D’oh! Trust me to get my 70s Glam Rock bands confused. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day was by Wizzard. Slade did Merry Christmas Everybody. Sorry ;)