All He Wants For Christmas

Thanks for finally posting and making me come up with a topic. Oh oops that sounded more like a complaint than a thanks... but I guess that's sort of how I meant it. Heh. I'm so transparent.

I do have a topic though, and I need your help. (See title of this post-- doesn't it sound like one of those porny category romance novels I love so much? Note to self: write a porny category romance called All He Wants For Christmas... or read it if it already exists.)

I have been Christmas shopping and have bought at least one thing for every female on my list, but nothing for the many men I have to shop for. See, women are easy. Get us a sweater or earrings or a pretty dish and we're happy as we can be.

But men? They either don't have any hobbies, have hobbies that are so expensive you can't buy them any hobby accessories, buy everything they want as soon as they want it so there's nothing left on your list to buy them, or are just plain difficult to shop for. Oh if only we could buy a man a pair of earrings and be done with it, but no.

So, fair blog readers, I need your help: What are some good go-to gifts for guys? What do guys really want for Christmas? (And I'm thinking of guys other than my husband, so please don't go "there.") Thanks!

Ho Ho Ho (no, not you, Sonja)

It's that Christmas time of year! Well, sort of. I mean, it's like 70 degrees outside, so it's a little hard to believe that tomorrow is Christmas. But i'm willing to give the weather the benefit of the doubt and believe that tomorrow I will wake up in a Winter Wonderland (despite the fact that the worst weather i remember for living her for 18 years was HAIL). Still, Christmas is all around us. (cf Love Actually)

Apparently, I was not given a choice in my Signficant Other Nickname Category... and my family now calls Craig "Orange Car Guy" whether or not i want them to. In fact, if I say Craig, they say "who?" and then perhaps Bryn will take pity on them and say "Orange Car Guy" and they all say "OOOHHhhh... right." I, of course, blame my So 5 cohort. Therefore, in order to make her life miserable (as it is the season and all), I'm going to wish her and her husband, Expiration Date Guy a very merry christmas. :)

By the way, I like my random tags. I like to think that in case anyone ever actually uses the ones I think up, they'll come straight here. And then our readership will be increased from 2 to MANY. I can dream, right?

And, mutant powers like yours are at least useful. i apparently have broken the entirety of the Feedburner comments. It's all my fault, so to the world: I'm sorry. Although, it might be Bryn's fault, because he wrote some comments. So i'm only going to take partial credit for the whole system going down... because his powers are far more developed than mine. After all, he once caused a computer to burst into flames, just by looking at it. And to quote my father, it's really hard to put the smoke back in, once you've let it out.

In conclusion, from one mutant to another, let me say Merry Christmas!