'Tis the season!

Ladies & Gentlemen, it is officially the holiday season, GET READY! Its the most wonderful time of the year and I can't wait to decorate my house! And just as soon as Adam gets home long enough to pull the things out of the attic, I'll get right on that! (Just a side note, I have always been unable to get into an attic, not really for fear of the attic, but more of a fear of plunging to the floor from the rickety ladders attached to them). I've got my Christmas music and I even went shopping yesterday!

After my shopping experience, I now understand that this is also a season for drinking.


Heavily.


Yesterday, I ventured out to Best Buy to buy a few gifts. It took me over an hour to purchase one item. I pressed on! I then went into Micheals, assuming that I could make some gifts this year. Pfft! Yeah right! Micheals lures you in with the hopes and dreams that YOU TOO can paint glass and it look professionally done! I get sucked in every time! Last year I decided I could "bake cute cakes", which ended up with crumpled, burnt, un-edible items with somehow uncooked dough and a seriously messy kitchen. The year before, I thought scrapbooking was soo cute, easy, anybody can do it! I have $200 worth of scrapbooking stuff and no one is scrapbooking in this house. Its sooooooo easy that I just keep putting it off and besides that, it would actually mean that I'd have to print out the photos I want to "scrap", and that ain't happenin'. I've also tried the whole stamping thing. I mean, any idiot can stamp, even children can do it! And last year for Valentine's day, I stamped away on some homemade stationary to send to all of my friends. Valentine's day came and went....and I never sent them.

So this year, YES, I vow to complete my holiday venture. I vow to at least use the paint I bought yesterday at Micheals and put it to good use!


I also vow never to enter the K-Mart on River's Ave. ever again. Yesterday to end my shopping adventure, I stopped briefly at K-mart for some Martha Stewart wrapping paper and such (apparently she does still sell there too, hmmm). Thats when, out of freakin' nowhere, a strange man thought it appropriate to stroke my hair like an animal and tell me, "I just have to say that you have the most gorgeous hair! Just the way it lays, its beautiful! I love the cut!..etc. ". Now, don't get me wrong, I'm used to people commenting on my hair. I DO work in a salon for pete's sake! I just have never had anyone go to such lengths to touch it before. I was fearful he may try and swipe a locket of my hair to perhaps fashion his own wig later, (I swear I felt a tug!). I was on the cell phone with my dad at the time of the incident, so I wasn't able to say what I WOULD have said in this type of situation. Also, does anyone else think its weird that his wife was standing with him? Yeah. She's probably plotting my death as we speak. Perhaps a voodoo sort of doll with my hair strand on it.


I also stopped at Bath & Body works. A staple for me every Christmas. I don't know why I go because I usually just end up buying stuff for myself. Which is exactly what I did. New soap? yes!! Now antibacterial hand wipes? yes!! New peppermint sugar scrub? Why, don't mind if I do. *hangs head in shame* - I'm such a product whore.

I'm now reminded why I did all of my Christmas shopping online last year. No lines. No people. No waiting. Free Shipping and Handling. And it already comes in a box!

SO, just remember this... When you're out shopping for Christmas presents with the rest of the crazies: just say NO to crafting, its more work than its worth!

when it doubt, pack your own flask and drink your way through the holidays!

AND most importantly, retail therapy is the best kind of therapy there is...so merry shopping! oops, I mean, "Happy Holidays!"