i am sooooo screwed....

no matter how many times i rifle through aaron's closet, i can't find anything with tags still on that i can rewrap and sheepishly present him with tomorrow. and the printer is sadly in disrepair so a book of "coupons" is out of the question too. sigh... christmas royally sucks!

but there were two sprinklings of happiness today!! we have had this RED warning light in our car for two days. i hate warning lights. they make my heart pound in my chest so hard i think my ribs will crack and my overactive imagination constantly flashes images of us being thrown off the freeway as the car blows up... anyway, i was snapped out of my nightmare daydream while driving on the freeway today, by the light going OUT! and so then of course i wondered if maybe the bulb had died as the car was about to explode ;) but i'm keeping my fingers crossed that whatever the 'emission error' was, was belched out while cranking along the tollroad at topspeed to get to walmart.

which brings me to my second happy tale. i had this brainwave to get Sam an ipod (shhh!) i got home from walmart with it feeling all overwhelmed by the fact that it is blue (and thus clearly subpar) and remembered that i have one in my drawer. it didn't work last time i checked but i am highly untechnical so i gave it to Aaron, who knows everything. seconds later he came back in moonwalking, bodypopping and walking like an egyptian while trying to find his way out of an imaginary box. yes - the ipod had risen from the dead!!! i am soooo getting my money back from Sam Walton.

a note to get tattooed on left hand: never again wait to grocery shop on christmas eve. the woman in front of me had no concept of how to put her groceries on the conveyor belt thing... she put one of the 'next customer please!' bars between each item... from what planet had she just descended??? is this the way you check out of albertsons on mars??? then the cashier insisted that the bargains i had on my section of the conveyor belt were 4 for $5 when i KNEW for a fact they were 5 for $4. i went and singlehandedly tore down the huge sign and handed it to her, little miss Albertson know it all.

segway time... a little video for a certain Brian Culbertson fan... yes Melissa you know who you are. i didn't see a mention of your wonderful valentine night with Brian (and me and Aaron and Barry) mentioned on your highlights of this past year.... surely some mistake ;)??!

my prechristmas gift to myself today was to take pictures of MY OWN FAMILY with good lenses and to photoshop MY OWN FAMILY for hours on end while listening to every single rendition of dance of the sugar plum fairy and eating my finally-deeply-fudgey-brownies ... (2 eggs instead of one is the key :) and never ever ever use eggbeaters!!!!!) MY OWN FAMILY are very cute... and i love them :)