So today I ventured out into the raging torrents of humanity to do my last-minute Christmas shopping. Except that it was also my first-minute Christmas shopping. How is it that I always manage to do this to myself?
Except that today I think I have to go ahead and crown myself king of efficient shoppers: everything taken care of in the space of a single day. Not that I have a vast number of people to shop for, mind you, but still enough to make compressing all of it into one day more than a little nerve-wracking. Which made the efficiency and ease of today's shopping a little eerie ... I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Now I'm getting nervous that I've made awful choices.
I went out to do the last few items this evening, which was oddly pleasant. Odd, because of course I was in the midst of the last frenzied rush of people who, like me, had left things right to the end but lacked my apparently zen-like calm in the midst of chaos. But I rather enjoyed wandering around the mall this evening looking at the faces alternating between crazed panic and shellshocked consumerism-induced torpor.
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and the funny thing is, it doesn't matter how big or small the community. i'm home in stephenville (pop. 8000), and ventured to the mall to pick up a few things, and saw the same panicked crowds. now, number-wise, it's certainly less, but it's a question of scale, see: smaller mall + crowd of people = same chaos in an itty bitty space :) have a good christmas!
~mandy
The best thing to do, at least I've found, is to make a list. And yes, I do realize that the whole "making a list and checking it twice" comes into play there...but really, the list works, then you go right into the store, right to the section, and right to the cash register.
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