Bah...

Humbug?  I don't know. I haven't decided how I feel about Christmas. I know this sounds superficial and shallow, but we have little money left for gifts and we still have to get one more gift for Brian and two for Steve. Why? Because we have for years, ever since they came to live with us in '86 from their Dad's. Actually, the last five years, Christmas has been worse than from '86-'02, those were good Christmases. I am beginning to get bummed out.

I just got an unexpected bill in the mail the other day. It HAS to be paid by the 20th. This is not a bill I can let go until later. So there's about $100 down the drain. We've bought one gift for Brian and zero gifts for Steve. And, we still have to mail my Dad's Christmas box tomorrow. I'm not sure I have wrapping paper to wrap his gifts. Grrrr. I wish I had a money tree in my back yard. Don't we all?

Our Christmas decorations aren't even up yet, much less the little tree we have. Grrrr. I admit, I don't feel like Christmas this year. How about I go to bed and wake up on January 2nd? Funny thing is, Mike hasn't even mentioned the lack of decorations around the house. Maybe he doesn't feel like Christmas either. I haven't asked so I don't know.

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Brian had a couple of milestones today. He made his first car payment. Then, just after he left the bank, he was pulled over by a police officer and given a ticket for an improper turn. As Brian explained it to me, the turn was improper. So now he has to pay $120.00. There goes HIS Christmas gift money. 

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Brian now has a 'sort of girlfriend', I call her that because they work at Office Max together, but they don't spend time together outside of work more than once a week. Netta thinks that she and Brian are a couple. Brian tells me that he doesn't feel that way. She probably wants a Christmas gift from Brian, but he truly doesn't have the 'social manners' which would make him aware of such things, so he probably won't get her anything for Christmas. And yes, we have tried to teach him manners, and they truly didn't 'stick'. I have found that Brian is very much like his father (not Mike, Mike is Brian's step-dad). Brian will probably have to tell Netta that, because of the ticket, she can't expect a Christmas gift from him. I don't know how that will go over, but it is what it is.

Have to go, time for me to finish making dinner.