Ouch, shopping for nearly four hours straight sure does a number on my feet! My knees also ache, and my back which has been hurting off and on the past couple days is definitely switching to &#034on&#034 right now. Despite the hours walking around and the forty-five minutes standing in line at a register, I have to say we did get a lot accomplished. We&#039ve got gifts for all the kids, I&#039ve got gifts for the names that were drawn for me in both the Doyle and Ringwald family drawings, and we have several ideas for the couple people we still need to get gifts for. I&#039d say the mission is just about accomplished. Now to finish the crafts that are gifts for a couple people and then to find boxes and wrapping paper for all the rest of them. Whoo, the holiday season is maddening. I&#039m gonna go rest my feet a while now.

Posted: December 21, 2004 at half past ten at night and a couple hundred dollars spent.