A few suggestions for Christmas 2008

So, Christmas with DAM was for the most part pretty uneventful. Until she started opening gifts! I'm going to give suggestions for next year while they're fresh on my mind. I'll start with the gifts that were best...

1. Flowers - way to go Jason! She loves flowers and they require nothing more than a phone call from the delivery man and 3 subsequent phone calls from DAM to me so she can find them. They're right outside the door...hello! Relatively painless! Oh, and then there's the conversations about how those flowers stayed so fresh when they are sent all the way from Iraq.

2. DH and me - A surf and turf dinner. One of the biggest lobster tails I have ever seen and a fillet that was oh so tender! Again, one of her favorite things....food.

Now for the list of what not to give her...

Nothing that has anything to do with electronics.

1. DVD - no concept of why she couldn't watch this on the same machine that plays a CD.

2. CD - If it plays music she's not interested. She's listened to music all her life and she's sick of it. Forget the fact that when she's happy she hums like nobody's business. And she loves to watch figure skating especially when they are skating to someone singing live.

3. Cassette - Why do you need 3 different machines? But, actually she wants to listen to the CD because it is someone talking about how to alleviate stress in your life. I really need to sit in on that one!

4. No blankets. She gets 3 or 4 every Christmas and she doesn't use them. But she stores them and then complains that she has no room for anything.

5. Visa Gift Card. I'm not actually sure which list this should go on because it was actually a very thougtful and unexpected gift. DAM's first thought was that she wanted to go to Costco and stock up on lobster and filets. The first problem is that Costco does not accept anything but
American Express. Good luck explaining that one. Second problem, you don't stock up on Lobster and Filet Mignon with that amount of money. I'm guessing you might get 2 meals. That would totally throw DAM into a fit.

6. No long sleeves and no night gowns. She would never sleep in a night gown. Trust me, she just won't. And long sleeves, she hates them. So, the long sleeved night gown it totally out of the question. She already has plans for me to cut the sleeves off so she can wear it as a sleeveless dress in the summer.

7. No fuzzy scarfs. She only puts scarfs on when she goes outside. What does she go outside for in the freezing cold? To smoke....fuzzy scarfs catch on fire way to easy. It's pretty and she should wear it when she goes to Walgreens, but she doesn't. Well, maybe she will...we'll see.

8. So, back to the gift card. Can't use it at Costco so DAM has decided that on Sunday, (our one and only day off) she is going to Levitz to get a new couch. Translation, we will spend Sunday taking her shopping until she finds the couch she wants. We will then load it, haul it, unload it, load up old couch, and move in new couch. And it will be partly paid for with the Gift Card.

9. We will then proceed to go to thrift stores until we find a cassette player so we can learn how to take all of the stress out of our lives!

Isn't is amazing that what should be so simple turns into so much friggin' stress and work for the people that the gift isn't for...and you know that the funniest part is...she was stumped that no one thought to get her the one thing she really wanted... A. Purse. Who knew!