Traveling Thoughts

It’s August and when August rolls around so do the demand for the Christmas list. Mom’s already started.

Mom: Courtney, I need your list by the end of August
Me: Mom, I don’t want anything, I can by anything I want
Mom: Courtney, we go through this every year, I still need a list
Me: do we have to have Christmas here, can’t we just go somewhere else instead of opening gifts
Mom: What about April, you know we can’t take her with us and she just wants to come over, open presents and go back home again
Me: *big sigh*

Yeah, it’s that time of year again, and even worse than me making a list is buying presents for those that don’t make a list or refuse to tell you what they want for Christmas, it’s ridiculous. My favorite person to buy gifts for isn’t even a person, he’s a creature, my dog Dominic, every Christmas he gets a new animal. And there’s no designation on who buys it, so one day between now and Christmas, either me, mom, or dad will come home and announce that we got his gift.

Since I go to PetSmart often to get bird food, I can start looking for his toy, he doesn’t have a list other than the animal.

Mom…she’s been eyeballing my iPod lately so that’s an easy pickup from BestBuy

Dad’s been a little bit harder to shop for in the recent years, in general I’ve been picking up giftcards to outdoors stores for his birthday, father’s day, and Christmas. But this last father’s day he went and bought clothes with the giftcard, outdoorsy clothes so I think that’s what I’ll get him this Christmas. Rocky Mountain Trail has got some nice sweaters and shirts and he might like those. Needless to say, while I’m thinking about what I want for Christmas, I’ll have to spend some more time thinking about what he should get from me for Christmas.

And of course, since I’ve been big on the online shopping deal lately I can choose what I want to get them and then hop online and get promo codes so that I can buy that item online at a discount. There’s PetSmart coupons, BestBuy coupons, and Rocky Mountain Trail coupons so I’m good to go.

In the meantime, you should know, I hate when August rolls around because I have to make a Christmas list. Seriously, I’d much rather not be given any gifts, how about a plane ticket instead? Send me away to some place that I’ve always wanted to visit, like, oh, I dunno, Australia…