committing the christmas sin

Because I am not organised enough this year, I have had to buy some people and family members gifts instead of making something.  I could get them nothing, but I suspect that it would make me unpopular, because people expect gifts (regardless of whether they can even name anything that they need or want).

Today we committed the cardinal sin of Christmas- shopping in a big box retail centre.  Well two actually.  And there looks to be a strong possibility of three.

It was a heartbreaking decision but I wasn’t sure how else to get this done.  I’m working 9-10 hour days to build up time off for going away, which means that shopping before or after work is nearly impossible.  And shopping in the city in my lunch break (with monsoonal showers) has been unpleasant.  So I had to do a weekend shopping centre trip.  In bad news, it was also relatively unsuccessful!  We are most likely going to the shopping centre near Glen’s family’s house in an hour or so.  Le sigh.

I hate shopping.  More than anything!

What do vegans eat?

I don’t know if anyone here is interested in this, but I took a photo a few weeks ago of a weekly shop for my household of 2 vegans.  I didn’t include the non-food items though.  This is a pretty typical “big week” shop, but every week in between we do a “small” shopping trip.

Enjoy …