Ding dong merrily

This year I am trying to do what I attempted to do last year, only with a bit more success. I did manage to do the majority of my Christmas shopping before the craziness hit but this year I'd rather avoid it altogether.

I hate Christmas shopping. No really... I loathe it. I can't stand being in amongst crowds of people in the Christmas rush and getting everyone else's panic vibes as well as my own. Normal shopping is fine. I can do that - I've even managed to start enjoying this novel pastime of spending money on myself. Christmas shopping though, it just depresses me to be amongst the chaos that is the high street shops as we get into December - there's just too much tat about, and it invariably gets more and more messy and then you're down to the items people pulled out of boxes and the Kung Foo Fighting Hamster sounds like he's been on a 3 week bender because too many kids pressed his button... and the only type of novelty chocolate left is edible nipples... Just the thought of it makes me want to come out in hives.

So I shop via various catalogues, I shop on the net and I this year I will do some of my shopping with googlebrat well in advance.

I have found a number of possibilities on my *breathe* happy, relaxed trawl through cyberspace. I'm not exactly sure just who to give the sequinned christmas camel to but I'm sorely tempted to buy it and allocate it an owner later on. Any takers??