OH! I've been meaning to say SUE! we got the stuff THANK YOU! because I suck at remembering to send email.

YAY! I was just wondering if they arrived last night.

Just had dinner with my SiL, and then spent some time fruitlessly searching for a beanbag chair for my nephew. The only place that has thme in stock is Walmart and my SiL says they were very cheap-looking. I'm like, go online...but she wants to see what she's buying.

Tomorrow should be a good day to go non-food shopping, right?

Announcement: Trader Joe's has dark chocolate-covered caramels with sea salt. (They're with all the Christmas-themed sweet goodies.)

Analysis: I think I just had a religious experience.

I have a box of these at home that I am saving, for some odd reason. SO GOOD.

The mall was packed today. Personally I am avoiding all shopping (except for food which I stupidly have to do tomorrow) until at least January.

I'm planning on doing all of my shopping online, and having it delivered to my sister's place (where I'm spending Christmas). I don't much care for shopping, except in bookstores, at the best of times. The period from Thanksgiving through New Years is not the best of times.

I just have to go to Best Buy for a cable, so that shouldn't be too bad. I hope. And it's half-way to what's supposedly the best burger near-by, so then I'll go there. Because I need to stock up on fat before Thanksgiving....

I love to Christmas shop in December. I think it's being deadline-oriented. I can't get into it before Thanksgiving. And the crowds just push me to get in, get what I need, and get out.

No shopping on Black Friday, though,because that's just craziness, right there.

Wow, do I really need to pay $40 to hook my free printer to my computer? That would explain why I haven't done this before.

I have to buy pie. I hope there's pie and the getting of doesn't kill me.

$40 for a USB cable (I'm assuming that's what it must be)? That's criminal.

Can you wait a couple of days?

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