22 days to go!

I'm going to have to check back on this thread. I think I've somehow gotten a day behind.

21 days to go!

That's only 3 weeks folks. I hope you've got your shit together by now. ;)

nope - not even remotely close.

Okay, I will now endorse the holiday season. I'll start and finish shopping tomorrow.

I've ordered a couple of shipments from different websites for the kids, and have plenty more bookmarked that we're prioritizing and making sure we don't stumble on anything better. But I am stumped for Mr. Clod. I know what he wants: he wants a PS3. But he readily admits it's too expensive and won't get enough use. He still has unopened videogames for our existing systems (for the record, we have a PS2, a GameCube, two Playstations--one stock and one mod-chipped--two Gameboy SPs, and a Nintendo DS.) AND he just spent a bunch upgrading his PC so it could play Fallout 3. So no PS3, no freaking way. But I can't come up with anything else he wants, at all. We already skimp on presents for ourselves pretty viciously in favor of stuff for the kids, and we didn't even go out on our last anniversary. I need to get him something good, but I don't have any idea what.

Steak and BJ

I still haven't iced my christmas cake yet, but I finally picked up the last few bits and pieces I need for it yesterday, so I might get to it on Monday. Besides that, we're going to decorate the tree today, and then this arvy I'm going to wrap presents. :)

It's all very exciting really. Specially since there's only...

20 days to go!

Ooops...I missed a day! you know what that means right???

18 days to go!

Sorry about that folks. I guess life does get in the way sometimes. :)

17 days to go!

That's not long.

Are you organized yet Classic? lol

Not in the least. eek!

Still don't have any idea what to get the FIL. Everyone else is covered, as far as I know.

16 days to go!

Glad to see there's at least one dwellar who's got things sorted. I recommend a gift certificate for the FIL. That's always a good fall back when you really can't think of anything good. At least that way he can go get himself whatever he likes from his fav store. :)

Yeabbut, he still gets us gift certificates, along with "real" gifts. He's retired, we both work, but he still feels like "Dad has to provide" or something.

So a merely reciprocal gift certificate wouldn't really fit, I think.

ETA: Badger is thinking of getting him a hammer drill, whatever that is. :confused:

Also known as a masonry drill. If you want to drill into concrete or bricks for example. It hammers while it drills. ;)

I regret not getting one when I purchased a drill a while ago. I really should have. It'd be much more useful.

15 days to go!

That's just two weeks to finish all your shopping and get all your preparations organized.

Not long now folks!