While wrapping the stocking stuffers and presents I bought yesterday I had to acknowledge - I was deep in the throes of "last minute frenzy' as I shopped yesterday.
I'll make the assumption that my family won't have time to read my blog today and list some of the tell-tale purchases:
- A Barack Obama action figure
- Sticky arrows (like the "sign here" ones we use on P & Ss) that say "F* this", "F* that", etc (spelled out of course)
- Mammoth bags of kitty litter
The first two are stocking stuffers and while I'm not convinced I would have bought them a month ago they do tickle my funny bone - which is in large part the point of the mammoth stockings we do each year. We're all adults - still getting stockings - so no need to keep things clean for little kids
Kitty litter though?
In my family we make lists so we get what we want.
Sure enough one of my brothers put kitty litter on his list (budgets are tight and keeping two cats in litter adds up). Chalk it up to last minute frenzy that I didn't think twice about it and suggested it as an idea for my other brother when he happened to call while I was at the pet store.
As luck would have it, second brother's kitty litter brand was only carried by another store two towns away. Again - only the desperation of December 23rd explains why I never flinched as I sat in traffic on my kitty litter quest.
It was only as I wrapped it up last night that the oddity of putting kitty litter under the tree finally sunk in. Chalk it up to the desperation of the final days of Christmas shopping. I'm out the door for my final laps so who knows what will end up under the tree later today.
Merry Christmas!!
