I've been quite the neglectful blogger lately. What with one thing and another, we waited until quite late to do any Christmas shopping, so every night this week we've hit one or two stores. Then once we're home, I start wrapping. The wrapping is one part of the whole Christmas consumer exxttrravvagannzza that I truly enjoy. I like making neat packages with perfect ends, precisely centered, ruler-straight ribbons, co-ordinating bows and tags, and looking upon the pile of lovely gifts with satisfaction. That's so much more fun than the crowded-mall, overpriced crap, guessing-wrongly-the-taste-of-others part...

We both got to leave early today, so we did almost the last of the shopping, all of the wrapping I could do until the final shopping is complete and then I was gonna blog, which I started but a second ago my sweetie walked through complaining of wanting Chinese food, and so I must indulge him, regardless of how I feel about the matter. (Yeah, right. I need me some pot-stickers!)

More later - plus pics of the loveliest best-wrapped package I ever created. It's for my brother Bo and his wife Sarah.