Today I had a good day.

I woke up once again in a funk, and was thoroughly disgusted with being so BLAH all the time. I resolved to fix it, and to start by getting a long over-due haircut. After running some errands with Shan, I went to go see our mutual hair stylist and had her chop off all my hair. I’d been toying with the idea of growing it out for a while and as such had a lot of hair – but no more. The cut Chelsea gave me is fantastic. It’s an Erin-style cut of yore, and I love it.

After the cut, I wandered around the mall for a bit and found a super cute kitty hat with fuzzy balls. Then I found some alcohol! I replaced our empty bottle of Irish cream with a new giant bottle, then wandered into the produce store to buy tiny carrots and bags of cherry tomatoes on the vine. I came home, played with some cats, then went to the different mall with Ed to get some dinner.

Dinner was not so good – it was swimming in gravy and questionable intentions – but after dinner I was instructed to busy myself elsewhere while Ed bought me presents. Ed failed his mission and did not find me any presents, but I made like a bandit in Winners and found the perfect shirt to wear to Ali and Doug’s New Year’s party as well as two cute sweaters, a silver frame for my mom, and rattly baby things for River. Yay!

If all that wasn’t enough, I came home and discovered that Valve FINALLY released the plush Weighted Companion Cubes for sale. I now have a set of cubes and a mug on their way to me via Ed, and I am excited.

Cute hair, alcohol, and Weighted Companion Cubes. It has been an excellent Friday.

Even though I am less than impressed that the mail was not delivered yesterday, I still want to get the carrier something for the holidays. I’m at a loss here, because I am very bad at giving gifts to people I don’t really know and I’m not sure if going the clichéd route is the best idea. I thought I could perhaps go for an ULTRA cliché, and get one of those Tim Horton’s mug pack thingies – not a lot, but just as a “thanks for putting up with my hundreds of internet packages and also for that one time you took my resume to give to some guy even though nothing ever came of it”.

Do you give gifts to the various people in your neighbourhood? In your neighbourhood? In your neighbourhood? Do you give gifts to the people in your neighbourhood; the people that you meet each day?

If so, what? Should I just stick with my original plan and not fret that it’s a cliché, or try to think of something original? I don’t interact with anyone else – ever – so the mailman is really the only utility-type person I’m thinking about gifting during the holidays. Is it truly the thought that counts, or should I at least try for the wow factor?

Of course, all this is moot – my “keep Kimli off the street” money isn’t coming this week as scheduled and might get here next week, maybe, if Canada Post (oh look, irony) actually decides to come out, so I’m officially canceling Christmas because I am too poor to play along.

I have much woe.