monday! out!

monday morning, we woke up and went grocery shopping, stopping for chai on the way. grocery store was busy but not unpleasant.

at home, we loaded the food in, reviewed which presents we had left to buy, and went out again, this time to (gasp) the mall, where we tried hard to roll with the holiday shopping excitement, but pretty much just ended up getting mad at a variety of unique idiots with whom we came into contact.

but we got our christmas shopping done, and i bought myself a new shirt & tie, using a gift card from my credit card company.

back home, we dropped off our gifts, i took seth and went to my folks' to visit with my brother and aidan who just flew in from lawrence, KS. fu madness with the three kids running around. diana went to take care of tyler and stephanie's cats, in exchange for the house-sitting they will do over new year's eve for us.

at 8pm, i met di back home. i started a fire, made some tea, peeled some clementines, and cleared off the kitchen table. i brought down the presents, and we spent the evening wrapping gifts.