This year I am giving....

[Tuomas]

Something special? Something thoughtful? Something usual, something soft, something hard, something refreshing, a computer game, a board game? A kiss on the cheek or two on the lips, perhaps just a hug? Or, nothing at all...

Christmas shopping starts earlier and earlier every year, and the stores and markets fill with people shopping. Merchandise is on sale before and right after the christmas, and the official christmas time sales start only a week after the last summer sales. So I think this isn't too soon as it is, 2-3 weeks to christmas is nowhere near the time of relaxing but anticipation and pressure and spending money.

Well, coming to this age I've noticed, that it's no longer, and hasn't been for a while, that important to get a certain amount of presents every year. In fact, it seems, the older you get, the less you get presents. However, they seem to be more useful to you than before. Take this shirt I've been wearing the whole year and compare it to what my brother did with her transformer action figure. Well, he did play, and he certainly has the right to do it. But I start thinking; what do I want to give people this christmas? And I know, no-one can really be expecting anything. Everyone knows I'm a poor student. But I've decided, no matter what, to get something special to my girlfriend since it is our first christmas together. Don't tell her, but I've been looking for a teddy with a zipper in the back so that I could put something nice there... Having trouble finding one though.

Last year I bought several presents. This year just one. But the joy of giving is still there, and the look on that someone's face when they open the present. Even if it's just a potato... (don't ask). Anyway; What is it, that you are going to make your loved ones happy with at this, the best time of the year, in exactly 2 weeks?

[EldKatt]

Don't tell her, but I've been looking for a teddy with a zipper in the back so that I could put something nice there...

You could put raw meat in it. That's kind of witty.

[Baron]

Why not just buy a $3 zipper at a fabric store, cut open the bear and sew it on?  You could do it by hand in about half an hour.  PLUS, I have never known a woman who is not turned on by a man who can pretend he knows how to sew.

[Tuomas]

Couldn't do that to the poor bear. besides, am I really the only one who's interested in giving presents?

[Stupot]

I physically cannot begin shopping until I get paid on the 21st... (it'll be my first pay packet since April, I'm so looking forward to having money going into my account for a change).

And then, I might well be working in the day's between my payday and Jesus's birthday.  So it's quite possible I'm going to have to tell my folks that they will have to wait...

You could put raw meat in it.

Don't wait til Xmas!!! She must be gagging for it.

[LimpingFish]

...up.

[m0ds]

last christmas, I gave her my heart
then the very next day,
she got a wii instead

(so it was redundant, and i died)

this year, to save me from tears,
i'll probably buy her blackwell unbound.

[Domino]

I'll be buying Mods the CD that contains that Horrible George Michael christmas song.

[ManicMatt]

Here Domino, a complete list of all the artists who have covered "Last Christmas", so you can put them all on one disc with the Wham version! (I would like Wham's LC actually, if it weren't played to death)

   * 7th Heaven from Super Euro X'mas II
    * Ashlee Hulem
    * Keshia Chanté
    * Hilary Duff
    * Kimberley Locke
    * Human Nature
    * Darren Hayes of Savage Garden
    * Leigh Nash
    * Dexter Freebish
    * Billie Piper
    * Jamelia
    * Ashley Tisdale
    * Taylor Swift
    * The Cheetah Girls
    * All About Eve
    * Manic Street Preachers
    * Jimmy Eat World
    * Roses Are Red (for the album based on the Taste of Chaos tour: Taste of Christmas)
    * Busted
    * S.K.Y.
    * Crazy Frog
    * Hawk Nelson
    * The Ordinary Boys
    * Rubber Band (done in the style of The Beatles)
    * Swedish artist Jan Johansen
    * Finnish reporter-singer Timo T. A. Mikkonen
    * Korean pop princess BoA
    * Korean singer and former H.O.T member Moon Hee Jun
    * Japanese actor Yuji Oda(with American Musician Butch Walker)
    * Russian pop-group Smash!!
    * Norwegian musician Erlend Øye
    * German Schlager band "Wind"
    * German Electropop-Band PLAS-TICK
    * German Eurodance-Band Cascada
    * Japanese rock-Band access
    * Cascada (2007)
    * New Jersey pop punk band the Youth Ahead

I am getting my girlfriend a PS2! I'm REALLY glad she hasn't asked for a DS Lite or a Wii.

[Nikolas]

I already got my wife a coffee maker! Matt, helped to that with a bit of advice actually!

And she loves it! she loves esspresso and capucino and all these fancy coffees. And she knows I thought of her, because this present (unlike some lingery last year ) is only for her! I simply don't drink coffee! So she knows I thought of her only! This makes it very special!

And, yes, I also hate last Xmas... 

[ManicMatt]

I'm glad she likes it Nik! 

My shop is the best shop in town. Do you know why? It doesn't play christmas music!

Well, apart from when the owner of the company is covering me on my days off, like today.  :

This year I got my brother a job in Argos, that was like a xmas present, I had to stick my neck out to get it for him, and then he ran away. Fine, be on the dole then! He's 30 years old!! 

[LimpingFish]

    *7th Heaven from Super Euro X'mas II
    * Ashlee Hulem
    * Keshia Chanté
    * Hilary Duff
    * Kimberley Locke
    * Human Nature
    * Darren Hayes of Savage Garden
    * Leigh Nash
    * Dexter Freebish
    * Billie Piper
    * Jamelia
    * Ashley Tisdale
    * Taylor Swift
    * The Cheetah Girls
    * All About Eve
    * Manic Street Preachers
    * Jimmy Eat World
    * Roses Are Red (for the album based on the Taste of Chaos tour: Taste of Christmas)
    * Busted
    * S.K.Y.
    * Crazy Frog
    * Hawk Nelson
    * The Ordinary Boys
    * Rubber Band (done in the style of The Beatles)
    * Swedish artist Jan Johansen
    * Finnish reporter-singer Timo T. A. Mikkonen
    * Korean pop princess BoA
    * Korean singer and former H.O.T member Moon Hee Jun
    * Japanese actor Yuji Oda(with American Musician Butch Walker)
    * Russian pop-group Smash!!
    * Norwegian musician Erlend Øye
    * German Schlager band "Wind"
    * German Electropop-Band PLAS-TICK
    * German Eurodance-Band Cascada
    * Japanese rock-Band access
    * Cascada (2007)
    * New Jersey pop punk band the Youth Ahead

Isn't this Lucifer's iPod playlist?

[Oliwerko]

I see that this is that ultra-mega-total-hit type of song, reminds me of Tainted Love, which I collect ( not sure how to express it  )