Early Christmas

E had the day off yesterday so we decided to celebrate our early Christmas. We're both somewhat shy and absolutely hate the whole Christmas tradition. You know, the one where everyone gathers around at Christmas and each family member takes turns opening their gifts while everyone else watches them... I especially hate coming up with something to say afterward, because without failure I either don't know who the present was from, or I'm not exactly sure what the gift is or why it was given to me. It's just too much pressure!

Anyway, in order to cut down on the amount of gifts we would have to open in front of our families, E and I decided to go ahead and exchange our gifts to each other. After much thought and advice from family members and friends, I decided to get E the Ipod Nano in black. Thankfully, he seems to love the gift. Right after opening it he started talking about going to Target to get the Nike running kit to go along with it. Hehe. I originally wanted to get that to go along with it, but we made each other promise that we would stick to a strict spending limit this year, and alas the purchase of the Nano didn't leave enough in my spending limit.

As for my gift, E got me a couple of things! First, he got me this cool battery charger/tire pump for my car. I've been having a lot of problems with my cars air valve lately. Every couple of monts it seems to be suddenly cracking and causing me to get a flat tire. E's been with me every time it's happened and has been able to take care of it, but I know he's been worried about me being by myself when it happens and not knowing what to do. So yeah, this thing will defintely come in handy, as long as he teaches me how to use it! He also got me a new digitial camera! It's one of those cute Nikon cameras (the one's in the Ashton Kutcher comercial), and it was much needed. My Sony met it's fate a while back after I managed to scrath the lense while carrying it in my purse. I'm not sure how this happened, but if anyone was able to pull off such a feat, it would be me.

In other news, tonight is The Office Christmas special! Some may not find this blog worthy, but I LOVE The Office, and the Christmas special is almost always my favorite episode every season. They didn't have one last year, so I'm hoping this years encompasses the the hilarity of two specials wrapped in one. I don't think E realizes it's on tonight, so I'm going to try to make it into a little Christmas event for him. I'm thinking hot cocoa, those white chocolate covered pretzels, and some type of appetizer. I just want to do something nice for him. He's feeling kind of down about the possibility of not being able to go home to Iowa this Christmas.