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Have you ever noticed that all those people who never see the light of day most of the rest of the 365 days of the year come out in droves the couple of days before Christmas?  They crawl out from the rock under which they have been hiding (and some of them for very good reason!) just to make my life miserable.  Okay, maybe not just to make my life miserable but they sure are good at it! 

These are the people who either drive 55 mph scaring the bejeezus out of me or 2 mph irritating the crap out of me in the Wal-Mart parking lot, take up two parking spaces in said parking lot, steal my parking space in the same parking lot, almost run me over in their zeal to get a spot in the parking lot, go in the 10 items or less line with 20 items, and generally do not have a good grasp of personal hygeine.  Good Lord, people!  You’re going out in public, take a bath!  And you’re just not fooling anyone with that liter of perfume/cologne you poured over yourself instead.

Then there is the general mayhem of shopping, even with “normal” people three days before Christmas.  Even shopping with people who are usually quite nice and are generally socially adept can be trying this time of year.  Oh, yeah?  Just try and get that last itunes gift card before I do!  I’ll bite your finger off!  Ok, slight exaggeration but you know the drill.  The last one of anything or the last of that size, color, etc will reduce normally sane people into animals. 

This is why I usually do things online (oh, hey, there just happens to be a ”Stores” section right over there to the right!) and generally have things taken care of by mid-December.  And I did for most everyone except The Tater Tot and The Daddy (only the two most important people on my list!).  I only had a few things left to pick up and I kept telling myself “Oh, I’ll do that tomorrow” until there were very few “tomorrows” left and I had to get my Mommy Butt out there and do it today!  This will not happen next year.  Famous last words…