I blame my mother

[soy_muy_fuerte]

My mom wanted to go Christmas shopping yesterday.  With me.  Were I left to my own devices I would have avoided any retail areas, but I'm a good daughter. :)  I did wake up at 5:15 to do some shopping on Amazon, but they only had a few deals on the things I was looking for.  Met my mom at 7, wondering how I got myself roped into this.  Traffic and parking was insane.  However, you could tell the effect the economy was having on people because I saw a lot of people leaving stores empty-handed.  The checkout lines weren't bad at all, so all in all the shopping experience wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting.  So between in-store shopping and online I am now about 90% done with our Christmas shopping.  Hopefully I will be able to do the rest online and avoid the retail areas until after the holidays.

Gonna put up the Christmas decorations this weekend.  I <3 Christmas.  I'm a dork.