11 more shopping days until Christmas. If you’re ordering online, you better get done with it immediately.

The holiday shopping season has me a little stressed out this year. I still haven’t bought anything for Michelle, and it took me a while to come up with something for the other people on my list. I also need to come up with the cash to cover my New Year’s party, so there’s another thing that I haven’t even started to worry about yet.

If I didn’t find it so embarrassing, I might show a picture of the shambles which is my apartment right now. I’ve got a lot of cleaning to do over the next couple days; I think Michelle is going to come up for at least a day or two this weekend. And again, there’s the party coming up that’s going to require a thorough house cleaning.

I also looked at my phone the other day and tried to decide for certain if this is the ringer for me for the next two years (at least). I have 15 days from when I activated it to switch to something else, so about 7 or 8 to go. There was another one whose features and benefits I briefly entertained, but I don’t think I switch is likely. Er, well- no. Yeah. Definitely. Probably not.

Hey back on the topic of the New Year for a moment: party is, of course, happening on 12/31, but if you are coming from anywhere out of town for this event (or for something else), I will be around and generally available beginning on Thursday night, 12/28. I have off on Friday (and Saturday, of course). So come on over.

I wonder how class is going this week for the K-Bear? I haven’t heard from him in a while. I should probably give a call. Ditto for the Munsons. All three of ’em.

I have some clocks at my desk that are off by a couple minutes, I think I’ll go synchronize them and then try to finish the shopping…

PS- We won our 2nd basketball game on Monday…