Wahoo!
We usually do our Christmas stuff late at night here, which works out good because where my parents are it usually means we all celebrate around the same time.
I’ll make no bones about it, we were broke as fuck this Christmas. Sabs and I really didn’t get each other anything substantial, which is sad – but this is our first Christmas with a kid and we’d both much rather have bought him more stuff before buying ourselves anything. And somehow, Duncan positively made out like a bandit.
I was going to buy Sabriena a printer, because there’s apparently something cupcake related that she needs one for. I almost pulled the trigger on one last night, using our last $30 or so, which would have been really dumb, because today she went to the ER for a skin irritation she just couldn’t put up with any longer, and her prescriptions wound up costing a few bucks that we simply would not have been able to afford had I come home with something as silly as a cheap-ass inkjet printer.
I thought about buying her something off the ProFlowers best sellers page, but again – lack of finances. She’s “getting” me something after Christmas – LittleBigPlanet 2. It was going to be my Christmas present, but I wound up winning it in a contest, which is just as well because there’s absolutely no way I could have justified $60 on it at the moment.
But anyway it worked out great – we got back from the ER visit just in time for a nice family dinner, then Duncan took a nap and woke up in a fantastic mood to open presents. I think we got some cute photos of him and me having a good time, but we haven’t put them up yet. The weather cooperated, the fire was working great so we were all warm and toasty gathered around the tree.
Overall it really couldn’t have gone much better considering the circumstances.






