Christmas Shopping day. Oh heaven help me. We dropped youngest at a friends house, and went off and spent far too much money on presents. We decided that we would not buy for eachother this year, which always leaves the little boy in me feeling a bit sad. I know it's pathetic, but there you go. I am, unsurprisingly ,a difficult bugger to buy for, so I suspect that Mrs Plug will be relieved. I might treat myself to an item of clothing before the week is out...we shall see. I now have my kindle app on the iPad fully up to date with the next batch of books to plough through, and I think the collection will be rather challenging. I will report progress as I go along. We managed, I think, to get pretty much all the girls stuff organised, and we are leaving the food shopping until later on in the week, which should be entertaining. We are only really buying for one day, so that is a relief. We had to take eldest for a Scan today. After the horrendous episode at the hospital before, we have all been worrying about it, and hoping that there is no repeat of what happened. All seemed to go well, and she has such a strong positive attitude to it all at the moment that I couldn't be more proud. After we got out, we continued with shopping, and actually had a good time. Myself and Eldest managed to amuse ourselves by sneaking items into Mrs Plug's shopping basket without her noticing. My favourite was a Garden Gnome. We were tragically, quite helpless with laughter in the middle of the shop, and it makes me happy. We went for a coffee and a bite to eat in bloody Costa. I cannot help but dislike all of these chains of coffee shops, and I am not sure why. I think perhaps that they tell us what it is to be sophisticated, and I simply don't buy into it. I am sure there are lots of other reasons to dislike them, but right now, the fake pretension will do for me. We had a good chat anyway, and it was good for me to be able to articulate why I was feeling a little down after the incident with my Aunt last week. I am enjoying today in spite of myself. In the evening I got stuck in a loop of iPhone upgrade hell on the internet, so gave up and watched football.
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