Shopped OUT!

Today is the first day I did some Christmas shopping. I wasn't going to do any at all. I love buying gifts for people, I really do...it's so much better than receiving them. This year I just moved and I have so much more I need to buy...another car...a house...you know...nothing big. So since I just moved, I don't have any close friends yet, that saves me from buying those. My family had all agreed that we wouldn't buy gifts, since the holiday is so commercialized now anyway, and besides it's mostly for children. We would just spend the holiday together. That is what it's supposed to be about. Some good food, conversation...and just together time. I don't know who did it first....probably my mother, went and bought, "just something little." How can I get a gift and not give anything in return? So that brings me to the fun shopping I had at the mall today. You would think a Monday morning would be nice and quiet...but no way. People are ruthless! Pushing, shoving...I love shopping as much as the next girl, but today was even too much for me. I still have a few more things to get...many cards to mail out...and a few dozen glasses of eggnog to get me through it.