Nick Postagulous
Monday, November 22, 2004
Professional Buyer
For a person who allegedly doesn't like to shop, and really, since it's me we're talking about, I really don't like to shop, I sure like Christmas shopping. Even/Especially when it's someone else's money.
By Friday, Alison and I had finished buying everything for everyone except for Corey and Tiana, which we don't have email addresses for so we couldn't find out what they wanted. Actually, we had to go back to Hot Topic for Alison to get Tom a shirt there on Saturday, and we did also get my Dad a trendy warm hat on Sunday.
But most of the Sunday shopping, all $200+ of it, was doing Christmas shopping for Alison's mom since her foot isn't getting any better. It's not that she can't heal, it's that her body is rejecting the metal screws holding her bones together. The doctor wants to keep them in for at least a year. She understands that the pain will continue until they are removed. But, hey, she's almost halfway through that year, eh?
We really cleaned up at Target for Al's mom, but did resort to ordering the Bonz Tyrannosaurus (small) and Dinosaur Big Box off Amazon, sans free shipping since it was from Toys 'r Us. We did actually go to the Toys R' Us here, but it was an hellhole of people and they didn't have either item.
Nina's Sick
One of Nina's worse habits has to be chewing on shopping carts. There is a metal bar she can lean over and put into her mouth when she's sitting in the cart's seat. Earlier, it was just kind of disgusting. Now, it's irritating since she's now sick. She didn't sleep much last night, and Alison slept less. Even I, who sleep upstairs during these trying times, didn't get much sleep early on since I kept going down stairs to help.
Nightmare Info
Nina also had a few nightmares early last night. I went in both times and check on her. I picked her up and held her and talked to her. She was crying as I told her that we were here, Mommy and Daddy, and she was safe. Then I said, "You're home. We're at home." Crying stopped. I think her nightmares might be set in some other location. Actually, considering how scared she was of Hot Topic, maybe there.
