Christmas List
- Dad - limited edition and exclusive to NFL.com Eagles sweatshirt
- Mum - Framed pictures of Kia (requested)
- Grandparents - Flowers & Card
- Grandma (paternal) - $50 K-Mart Card (requested)
- Husband – Ridiculously expensive electric shaver & surprise…
- In-Laws – ???
I’ve got the majority of my Christmas list taken care of. As per usual, I had to do everything… right down to the brainstorming, purchasing, etc. Sigh. I still don’t know what we’re going to do for the in-laws. They are the type of people who are almost impossible to buy for and if my father-in-law wants anything… at this point, he can buy it himself. The money he is making with this financial thing is downright ridiculous. They’ve climbed several tax brackets–yikes!
Understandably, the husband is a bit down about this. His issue is that his father never went to college and he’s making ridiculous money whereas my husband has his Masters in Chemistry and is making less than most people without college degrees make. West Virginia pays pittance to its civilian employees, in case you were wondering. Probably not the best career move to make. Go to Ohio, they pay their forensics people nice. I should state that my father-in-law is extremely good with money, has been his entire life, and is not your ‘average joe’. He had every opportunity to go to college and that famous military academy pretty much all but begged him to go there, but he refused. He didn’t want to leave my mother-in-law, they weren’t married yet.
It’s a crappy situation all around, especially since father-in-law won some week vacation trip package of his choosing for his earnings. I’m just sort of sick of hearing him whine about it when I ask questions and encourage my father-in-law; he doesn’t get it from husband or mother-in-law and this job seems to make him so happy. My husband isn’t a big fan of this time of the year, so he’s usually pretty dicky, but this is just getting ridiculous. He’s also all mopey because I figured out what he got me… it’s his own fault, he failed to react and I figured it out. It’s not a bad gift, but, I don’t know. He got me this high-quality HP printer that does all kinds of awesome photos/etc. It’s the same one my pap got. We had initially planned on getting it with wedding money, but that didn’t pan out. I appreciate the thought, but with all the mystery and everything he was spouting off about… I was expecting something romantic? I don’t know. It’s like getting a vacuum for Valentine’s Day.
I have a hair appointment scheduled on Christmas Eve. How insane is that? It’s the only way they could fit me in, I am their last appointment. Oh well, it’s still technically before Christmas and I can just come home and dye my hair. My hair needs cut, badly. It hasn’t been touched with scissors since June, before we left for Key West. Agh! The horror. I have dye waiting, I’m trying something new, going to try doing an all over dye and then highlights myself. I’m sure I’ll make a post on it, if only to remind myself how the hell I did it after it’s done.
