Traveling Thoughts

So last night, my family had a dinner and it was probably all my fault because the dinner was to draw names for christmas so that we didn’t have to buy for everyone we just had to buy for one person. This was done I believe because last year I took huge offense to my sister giving me a $5 giftcard to Target after I gave both her and her husband $50 gift cards to Target.

Mom was all worried that there would be a war over this move but there wasn’t. I could tell that my uncle didn’t like it and he especially didn’t like it when we were told that we had to make lists. He didn’t want to buy stuff from a list. I don’t know what he was all bothered about, he usually just gets everyone gift cards to a restuarant (I assume because he doesn’t know what else to get us, so now he has a list, it’s not all that difficult to shop now)…

The only part about it that pisses me off is that I have to make a list. I don’t make Christmas lists. Not for a very long time. Mom always says “Courtney, I need your list…Courtney I asked for your list last week…Courtney your list is overdue” Mom, anything I want I can buy. Anything I’d wait to buy you can’t afford. I don’t want anything…I can’t do that this year. I have to make a list. My aunt told me to make an amazon list. I don’t fricken do lists. What don’t they understand. I seriously go out and buy what I want.

I want a dvd, I go buy it. I want a bike, I go buy it. I want a book, I go buy it. I want a new jacket, I go buy it. Are you following me here. I just go buy it. Whatever IT may be.

This is all my fault, if I hadn’t been offended over the $5 giftcard last Christmas, I probably wouldn’t have to make a list this Christmas. And actually, I had every right to be pissed off last year. I know that Christmas is all about giving. But this is the sister and brother in law that refinanced their house to go on vacation. If they’re gonna make a stupid move like that, the least they could do is get me a decent Christmas present. Luckily this year I don’t have to worry about them getting me crap. Oh yeah that was the other thing. My sister decided she was going to be a Mary Kay consultant so I got face wash with my $5 gift card to Target. I wasn’t even using Mary Kay anymore at that point. I think I pawned it off on some teenager. Actually, this isn’t all my fault. It’s all her fault.

The other thing is, whatever I put on my list, I can’t go buy. My list is due Nov 1st and whatever is on it, I won’t know if I get to go buy it for almost 2 months. That’s killer for me. If I didn’t want it, it wouldn’t be on the list, and the fact that it’s there means I want it and therefore would normally go buy it. To have to wait 2 months is just fricken hideous. I told mom I didn’t want anything but for her to crochet me a sweater and that I’d even buy the yarn, but she didn’t get my name. So I have to make a list and not go shopping for that stuff.

Just to be a brat I should put stuff on that list that they can only get online and not in the stores…

Oh yeah, there’s a $50 minimum that we have to spend…so for me, that’s quite a few items because any big item I want is usually well over $50…