christmas~~!

Everyone's birthdays around me are coming up. James and Bri share a birthday, shortly before mine, then after is my grandmother's. Even before all of those is my mom, who is at the beginning of November, two days after my one-year anniversary with James. Then, of course, is Christmas! I'm going to need so much money this season for gifts. For my mom, my sister and I have planned on pooling our money and buying her an e-reader called the "Nook", which just makes me think of Animal Crossing.

For the anniversary shortly after, I already painted James a mug with a little picture of us on it, but he guessed what it was so I just gave it to him like a month early. =w= Now I'm going to surpise him by paining the photo frame we got from EKA last year when we won the cutest couple award. For Christmas I might get him the Star Wars Y-Wing lego set he's been wanting since before we were dating, and maybe Civilization 5 if I have enough cash.

Bri is the one I'm stumped on at the current moment. She dresses like a hippie now and plays Team Fortress 2 all the time... And I know nothing about hippies and TF2. :/ I already know what my mom is getting her and I wish I had thought of that first, but now I might get her an accessory for it, and perhaps some mori-able clothes, since I know she likes Mori girl and Dolly-Kei. c:

For mom, we have the e-reader planned for her birthday, but she already got her "dream quilt" so there's really nothing else I can think of off the top of my head for her. Maybe we could get some photo frames and put the pictures of the family that we've got in them? I dunno yet.
Dad is the other one that I'm totally confused on. It's always always hard to buy him gifts because it seems like he has everything already. Hopefully while I'm working with him he'll tell me something that he wants aside from a toy helicopter, or something old of his that needs to be replaced. When he was teaching me about some of the lights he works with I looked at the date and they were from like '97.

My mom will pry something to get from my Aunt and grandmother, because she's always on the phone with our aunt and well, our grandmother wants the wole world for Christmas. Then I have to find something for James' dad and his grandmother (I'm thinking something wolf / unicorn for his grandmother and something for his dad's Nikon) and also for my friends. Kaela I know you read this stuff and heh heh I already know what I'm getting you but I won't post it here. :D

I hope this Christmas I can get my first BtSSB brand item. :3 I was thinking Creamy Soda Pop but it's looking expensive at the moment (goddamn exchange rate, so high!) so right now I'm happy with AP's Jewelry Jelly in mint and hopefully also Miracle Candy in sax. I'm also getting quite a bit of a haul before the holidays so I have some things to wear- Wonder Cookie in white and Toy Parade in pink, possibly Memorial Cake in white, two pairs of tea-party shoes, one with heels and one without, a new white blouse, a new petti, and some socks. Hopefully that can get here before November so I can do another, much better coords post.

I'm already ranting about Christmas and Halloween hasn't even come up yet. I don't have a costume yet, either! I was thinking about going as Pinkie Pie or Nightmare Moon from MLP's Friendship is Magic, but I don't htink I have the time to make either of those costumes, and how the hell would I do Nightmare Moon's hair? So I guess I'm either going to cater to James' Star Wars obsession and go as Slave Leia (lul) or find somethin else at the ostume store for cheap. :( I hate those slutty pre-made "sexy" costumes they sell there, though, which is why I'm reluctant to go as Leia (I love her but I mean, I don't have the right hair or the right boobs) so I might just pick something cute from the children section and buy a wig and call it a day. We're probably going to Fremont Street again for Halloween if we can organize it with a bunch of friends. 8D