Presents stress me out.

I am almost finished with Christmas shopping.  I know what you're thinking...I should be completely finished by now; Christmas is Saturday and it's Wednesday afternoon.  Well...my dad is very hard to buy for.  My brother's are too...it must run in the family.  I went to Kohl's yesterday (I had to fight some of the crowd, ugh...crowds are horrible and I hate them), and found some good presents for my friends, a baby (:D), and my dad.  However, I need to find him something else.  My dad is one of those guys who does not need ANYTHING.  He usually tells me to buy him plants (boring), books (boring), or UK stuff (expensive).  Geeze.  My brothers on the other hand like things...but they like things like football, motorcycles (well, cars in general), guns, photography- all things I know NOTHING about.  They are both married, so I have to pick out things that will look cute in their house and that their wives will like. AWFUL.  I'm also always tempted to buy Ben candy- he loves Pez, Runts, Airheads, and Cordial Cherries.  That's kind of a cheap gift though..."Here Ben, I bought you a whole bag of candy that will make you bounce off the walls and rot your teeth! Enjoy!" Yeah.  I've decided I'm getting them both the same movie and they will just have to like it.  Now I need to focus on getting my niece and nephew some awesome presents, because what I have gotten so far is just not cutting it.  It's so hard to buy presents for a 1 year old who is very picky and doesn't really understand the idea of princesses and dolls yet (I will spoil her rotten when she's about 4 or 5...I'm a girly-girl) and a 3 year old boy who likes to sing (but they don't like toys with sound, soooo that narrows down acceptable toys), dance, and run around like a maniac all the time.

Sometimes I wish I was the type of person who could just do gift cards, but they're so thoughtless.  Like, I enjoy giftcards but I appreciate gifts that a person handpicked themselves so much more than the fact that they went and plopped down $20 at a random store.  I love picking things out, I love thinking "oh, she'll LOVE this! I can't wait to wrap it and give it to her!" Life would be easier if I stopped caring about finding the perfect gift and could just give gift cards.

This is kind of grumpy.  Sorry! I promise I'm not a Grinch, I just am frustrated with shopping and crowds.  I will watch something Christmas-y to put me in a better mood...Love Actually should do the trick.  :)