Christmas with the Family
Friday, March 25th, 2011I’m going to stay at my brother’s house for the first time this Christmas. We don’t see each other that regularly so choosinggifts for him is problem since I have no notion of what he wants or what he might already have. Tricky.I don’t see my family very much as they relocated to the country years ago and I never learned to drive. If there isn’t an underground station nearby then I don’t want to go there! So there they are, out in the middle of nowhere with no public transport and I’ve finally submitted to peer pressure and I’m going to go have Christmas with my family. I’m not looking forward to it really! It’s not that I dislike my family but since they moved I just don’t get to see that much so I don’t really know them very well. They might be my closest relatives but I hardly know them, what they like, what they hate, thinking of Christmas gift ideas should be a real laugh! Some people buy the best, most obscurebirthday presents that you may never have thought of by yourself. An old girlfriend sent me a kilo of dried beans once, she lives in Los Angeles so I think i remember the shipping cost more than thirty dollars when the beans them selves only cost 99cents. I’ve also had a small plasticine dragon for nearly nearly years which was made for me and comedy lips made out of cherry scented plastic that is probably banned in the UK as a choking hazard.
That’s the thing with birthday presents, you can either get some-one exactly what they want which is more than welcome to them but lacks imagination, or you can get them something that you think they’ll really enjoy which often turns out much more fun. Getting people the opposite of what they’d expect is always fun and might even start a brand new hobby. Your brash and offensive cousin might cradle a deep need for a creative outlet for his rage, why not see if an embroidery set will soothe his raging brow? You never know, do you?