Underneath The Christmas Tree

As I have been completing the last drabbles of Christmas shopping and starting Dad’s I have found it frustrating because I keep seeing things I want for me. So for you information, this year underneath the Christmas tree I hope I find…

• The Ultimate Edition Wizard Of Oz Anniversary Edition DVD Box
• The Ultimate Harry Potter & The Philosophers Stone DVD Box
• Ditto for Chamber of Secrets
• 1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Die and about a zillion other books
• A first edition Pride & Prejudice
• A solution to the Global Financial Crisis
• A high paying communications/marketing job in London/New York or Brisvegas
• A plane ticket to London (Preferably First Class)
• A microwave egg poacher
• A crystal decanter
• A variety of awesome homewares etc I keep seeing
• Lots of lovely expensive skin care products
• A new iPod.. mine which I got secondhand is just about dead

After all Santa, I have been very good this year. Depending on your definition of “good”.

Miss Ginger: Super-Organised!

Oh the weather outside is frightful (it’s freaking HOT and STICKY)
But the Air-Con’s so delightful (BLESS Climate Control)
And since it’s too hot to go outside
Time to shop, Time to shop, Time to shop!

With only 37 Days left until Christmas, I am pleased to brag to you all the I have be super organised this year and completed all Christmas Shopping!

The only thing left to purchase is my Mother’s stupid bird feeder, which is too big to hide at the house, so need to find a hiding place first.

DAD – Tick; NEPHEWS x 2 – Tick; GODSON – Tick; BROTHER & SISTER-IN-LAW – Tick; ALL MY CLOSEST FRIENDS & THEIR OFFSPRING – Tick!

I’ve even managed to write all my International Christmas Cards, put stamps on them and have them sitting in a pile ready to post (but still need two addresses). 

Usually I have everything done by about the first week in December.. but this year I am on FIRE!  Mainly because I am broke and I have been buying gifts one pay at a time. Also because I have realised how much Sunshine Plaza (our local shopping centre for those who aren’t local) annoys me. You can never find a park, and it’s always full of teenagers, fat people and lesbians.

So I thought, “Clever Miss Ginger for getting everything done early” UNTIL I remembered that I will have to battle in the parking lot anyway as I work at the Plaza AND have volunteered to do Lifeline Christmas Wrapping this year. 

So really resistance of retail centres at Christmas is futile.

DAY/POST 6 of 365

Woohoo! Scarf Complete.

Dedicated readers will be aware that at the start of the year I took up knitting. My good friend Pete suggested I knit him a scarf which I though would be a great idea.

Six bloody months this scarf has taken me!  It has been a never ending mission to finish this in time for his birthday. I decided to make it wide so it was more “manly”.. big mistake!

FINALLY I have done it! I have finished it! It looks rubbish, is uneven, and the pattern doesn’t match due to me running out of black wool. But it is done and I am filled with an amazing sense of pride in having created something hand made for someone that I love (in an extremely platonic way). Well done me. 

So keep an eye on the post Pete… your long awaited scarf is on the way.  I apologise for its crapness in advance.

DAY/POST 2 of 365