NONE of my shopping is done!
ACK!!!!!
I've never waited this late in the season.
I got nothin'.

ZIP
Zero
Nada
Bupkus
I need to move my ass.

I also should have came clean with the hubster and said:
"Hell yes, I want to exchange gifts."
I don't care WHAT gift.
It's the thought process I want.
I won't though.
I always get stuck in this situation.
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More on my blog reads.
First one is Linda.
She is one of my first blogs I remember reading.
She's out of Australia.
With a fine eye for detail, she takes you where she goes.

Description
Introspection
Honesty
Clarity of prose

You find all that on her blog.

Where Karma Meets Camera is another place I like to visit.

With Linda you see the picture she paints with her minds eye.

With JustHay you see the pics she paints with her Nikon.

Wow.

Not only that, but like Linda, she also posts in an honest, introspective way with gentle humor at the perils of motherhood, her love for all things Jack Black and her day to day life in New Zealand.

My last pimp, Ramblings of an Earthmama, is someone I also know in real life. She has since moved away so we don't see each other much anymore, but we started blogging about the same time (she may have started earlier???) and share some history.

She would call herself morbidly intense.

Yuh.

She is.

It takes one to know one.

We also share a love of Ann LaMott, fried chicken, potato chips and wine.

I am never unsurprised at her willingness to dig deep and she has a way of offering things to others that gives comfort and provokes thought.

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Okay, that's it for now.

More blogs tomorrow.

I have to go work on some projects as I get ready for life in Iraq.

I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday.

Me: "Hey honey, I've noticed you have been sending me "I love you" texts.
Awww.