Also, just like last year, my sister's fiancee (Brother in law?) took me to the local shopping mall for some last-minute emergency shopping.
Yep, thanks to various things such as college and work, and hangovers maybe, I've done precious little Christmas shopping. Not to worry however, as we generally do last minute Christmas shopping, and I had quite a few ideas for things to buy people.
A couple of these ideas were (displayed here because I didn't buy them due to them not being available/due to me being told that the intended recipient wanted something else more);
1. A rather lovely aromatic diffuser, that was nice and shiny, that made everything nearby smell nice, and that looked pretty cool. I didn't get this because I was told "Don't get that, this [other item] is what XYZ really wants".
2. An awesome Thrustmaster Ferrari GT Wheel and Pedals... I have been using one of these for a while, and my dad showed a strong interest in having a bit of a play with it. I had been hoping to get him one of his own, but the local game stores don't seem to sell them anymore.
Not to worry, I bought plenty of cool stuff, I avoided slipping into the "buy them anything, it doesn't matter" trap, and after spending ages searching for various stuff, came away from it all with a load of presents that I'm pretty confident their recipients will like.
Good stuff. We spent 7 hours out and about looking for lovely pressies for folks.
Along the way, we had a lovely meal in TGIs, relaxed, and took the little guy to see some jellyfish in a [jelly]fish aquarium in one of the local restaurants. I bought some silly putty, which is incredibly clever stuff, which is why it's taken me the best part of 40 minutes to write this stuff, and yeah, it was a nice, if hectic, day out.
On the way back, I got robbed inside the local convenience store, and by that I mean that I was charged £9.50 for three razor blades. Absolutely insane.
Still, since I've been using blunt blades since september 2010, it'll be nice to be clean-shaven again.
So yeah. The snow still hasn't arrived, but things are going more or less to plan, and I'm beginning to feel pretty Christmassy. I've got the college christmas do tomorrow, which should be fun. If not I'll just leave early and go to the off licence, hehe.
Some pickatures. Just one in fact, as the others aren't great.
It is a picture of my ridiculously large burger I got from TGI Friday's.
Have fun. Christmas Eve, soon :-).
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