Christmas, Christmas Time is Near!

I am so over-joyed with Christmas spirit, and Thanksgiving hasn't even passed yet. Every year this feeling of unreasonable gaiety worsens, and I can not seem to figure out why. It's not like I do anything spectacular for the holidays, but as soon as those decorations go up and those sledge bells start to jiggle, I start to feel like a kid again and my wallet opens up wider than it would under any normal circumstance. However, it is refreshing to be generous for a change instead of hoarding every penny, but sometimes I really don't know if I'm really being generous at all. Maybe, I'm just giving myself an excuse to go shopping, get distracted, and buy gifts for myself.

The Xmas spirit hit me hard a week ago when I was picking up random groceries at Walmart. There to distract me with all of their exuberant glory, was the cutest Christmas card set that I've ever seen so of course I had to get them. Then, I made the mistake of going into the Christmas section and fell in love with a wrapping paper set. How anyone falls in love with wrapping paper is beyond me, but somehow my heart managed to figure it out. So here I was, a week before Thanksgiving with Christmas cards and wrapping paper but no gifts. Well that all changed today. I decided to browse online for some items and like magic I found a plethora of gifts that would be perfect for my friends and family. It's a shame but on one of the sites, I bought two presents for other people and three presents for myself. It's terrible I know, but at least these people can be assured that the things I bought them were nice enough that I had to have one for myself. Then I found the perfect gift for my brother on eBay. I put in my bid in today and I pray that no one else makes a bid because his gift is coming all the way from Australia and the shipping costs more than the actual item, but I think it's worth it. It's a unique item, and I don't think he would be able to get it in the States. The only person that I still have to buy for now is my mother, and I have only a vague idea of what to get her. I'm thinking a book or something to do with Egyptology because she loves that stuff, but I'm still undecided. Hopefully, I can get my mother a great present and decorate my home to the extreme without credit card statement screaming bloody murder at me in January.