How is your Christmas shopping going?

[Nicole]

Dec 2, 2009 1:42:12 GMT -5 joandsarah said:

Yep, especially when you go home and the boyfriend goes 'I got my dad a present! Now it's up to you, even though you wanted to go halves on it.' Yeah, thanks. *sigh*

Nope that's when you say, "thank you for buying a gift from the two of us!" run off and wrap it/hide it. Do a card which says it's from both of you. The end. Then you tell them what wonderful present buyers they are and tell him he can do it each year from now on. ;D
If the boyfriend is a long term prospect then don't let him start the present from you and from me nonsense! You have to train these men.

LOL, very nice Jo. My man came pre-trained... Somehow...

[Tina ☺]

That's GREAT advice, Jo! It's something like I would have said if I hadn't been dead tired and brain dead last night.

[joandsarah]

That's funny, because as I was writing that I was thinking "I can't believe Tina let that one slip by"

Talking of brain dead It's 11.33 here and I just spent a heap of time getting those servant castle steps right from the 'dungeon' up and it crashed on me. It took so much fiddling and now I'm probably back at least half way.

Tina would flattening the lot which must of had building cheats done on it make it bad? Or the cc stone high stone wall I put around it? I know you don't place proper walls. I was looking that up on MTS about how you can use lot expanders/shrinkers to place proper wall right to the edge of a block and that that can cause bad lots.
One crash is a fluke, but two is worrying.

[Tina ☺]

Hmm, well, I really don't know, Jo. It looks to me like flattening the lot with stuff on it, should show 'breakage' right away if it did mess up something, but I don't know for sure. It sucks that it crashed on you, though. It's not a good sign that it has done it more than once.

If it does it again, you may want to think about finding a different castle to play with, or trying up on its hill. The hill it was on wasn't too bad anyway. You should see the hill Crissy put hers on! lol

[joandsarah]

I really hope I don't have too, I've already put too many hours doing the outside. I'm up to making rooms now. Stupid steps.

As to Xmas shoping, I haven't done any more yet! Once the concert is done with I will think more about Christmas. One more sleep to go!

[holleyberry]

I've been ignoring this thread. Has anyone noticed?

[joandsarah]

Lol.

Ds's Thomas Duplo train arived and so did my Gymboree clothes! ;D

Holley, are American kids jammies always this slim fitting! It kinds of fits like a spencer singlet. I bought ds a five and the sleeves are really skinny and long and the top is only just long enough. I was surprised as he only wears a size 4 normally. Glad I bought the five now. Jammies over here are kind of lose and baggy.

[holleyberry]

They fit tight so there is no choking hazard. If they are ALL cotton I would return them and get a 6 because they WILL shrink.

[Tina ☺]

LOL... I almost ignored it too, Holley, but I had to come in and do my usual, Bah! Humbug! thing.

I always had to buy my girls clothes that were a couple of sizes bigger for the age it said it fit.

[Nicole]

Oooh christmas clothes, how I hate getting thee.... My growth spurt is in WINTER... Unusual, yes so I never got clothes at the beginning of the year or for christmas, lol.

My christmas shopping is at a standstill... I still cannot figure out what to get my dad... He's... He doesn't need anything, so usually I get him a cheese ball and a box of crackers, lol.

[holleyberry]

Does he go to the Movies?
I always get people movie tickets when I don't know what to get them.

[joandsarah]

I love cheese balls, especialy home made ones, yum!

If they are ALL cotton I would return them and get a 6 because they WILL shrink.

Yes they are all cotton, that's one of the reasons I bought them. Nights can easily turn hot over here and polys make the kids sweat.
Well I'm not returning clothes to America. I'll wash it on cold and hope for the best. Chocking hazard?! Well the label said it was for fire danger. I can see toddler jammies styled against chocking and fire, but really is that necessary for older kids? We must have very different pajama standards. Just as well those jammies are so darn cute! The polar bear is all fuzzy. I think if i buy American jammies again, I'll get him two sizes up then. Crazy.

[Tina ☺]

Cheeseballs are good! Also, the movie ticket idea is a good one. Whenever I don't know what to get, I go the gift card route. You can get gift cards for almost anything these days.

Movies, restaurants, grocery stores, etc, are all good things. Also those gift assortments of food are good. They have coffees, teas, hot chocolates, sausages, crackers, jellies.. the possibilities are ENDLESS!

[jillyson]

Amazon.com is selling S2 Ikea stuff for $6, if you're looking for that one! (I'll finally have them all!)
Also, Gamestop is selling S3 WA for $29 until 12/6.

[Tina ☺]

That's a great price!

I actually got a few things purchased today...

Now I know something dh doesn' know about Christmas!