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scrawls

still cheaper than therapy*

14.10.05

gifts with a message.

so - will, almost absolutely certainly, be spending xmas itself (or at least a few days shortly thereafter) with the Old Immediate Fam. So. One must acquire presents for it. and i'm trying to think of things that might be helpful. so.

For the mom: Book on the TV show that makes people throw away their crap. Book on simplifying. Small, wuffly-nosed, young-adult dog. Book on "how to quit your job with panache." Book on "Retire without annoying the hell out of your kids." Giant box labeled "Salvation Army." Nice walking shoes. A more stylish hat. (Trust me, though, like my mother needs any more freaking shoes. where do you think i got this from? so strike that.) Shoe organizer. Yess! i am a geenniusss!

For the dad: Always the hard one to shop for. Nifty physics toy. Remote-controlled object. Weird random stuff from thinkgeek.com (and, in fact, i may have just found just the thing, and it is a funky pendulum - because the dad likes funky pendulums). However the dad is turning a bignumbered birthday as well, and this may have to be taken into consideration - i.e., i may have to acquire multiple presents.

For the bro: Book on "How to get off your butt and get a job already." Book on "Job finding for people who are not motivated." Book on "Interview better." Book on "Fifty bazillion reasons you need your own apartment." Book on ... but these are probably all things the parents are getting him, already. Poor little guy will have a library. Book on "Antisocial bastards who made it big - a biography of Bill Gates." apparently Feynman was something of a character, too. And while the bro might *like* something from thinkgeek.com - in fact i'm quite sure he would - it's ... i dunno. Weird. i feel like i oughta be the responsible one and get him something useful. book on "How to feel better about yourself without really trying." book on "You're not really that bad, seriously, stop beating yourself up already." book on "Get up and do something, already." book on "Chicken soup for the blackened, cynical, therapy-is-going-pretty-slow-so-fuck-off soul." this one is gonna be hard. Or - small, wuffly-nosed, young-adult dog.

i nominate this dog. or this dog.

scrawled @ 17:39