Okay, so I have made 10 dozen truffles. 4 dozen chocolate oreo truffles, 6 dozen golden oreo truffles. They’re so damn good it’s not even funny. Every year, Mom makes peanut butter balls as well, but this year, she mentioned not making them. I was like, what?? She said that she preferred the oreo ones. o.O So we sat and talked and I suggested that I go to the store and get more cookies. The Dollar General and most grocery stores carry their own brand of ‘oreo’ type cookies in multiple flavors. What I was thinking is that I can get peanut butter, mint, strawberry and lemon cookies and the cream cheese. I have the chocolate and can buy more easily. Mom is making her traditional sugar cookies, I’m supposed to make Hershey Kiss cookies, plus we’ll have fudge.

I need to go out tonight and get the rest of the stuff for Christmas dinner and for the family visit Saturday. It should be fairly easy and painless, but you never really know. I kind of want to go hunt down a few things, but I dunno, since Rob doesn’t get home til after 4. I was going to go to work with him, but it’s too fooking cold for me to sit around and twiddle my thumbs all day. I get too restless.

I started this post *yesterday* and totally forgot about it. So I guess I’ll post it now and move on with it.

- Oreo Truffles
- Peanut Butter Balls
- Rice Krispie Treats
- Sugar Cookies
- Hershey Kiss Cookies
- Mom’s Fudge
- Pretzel Clusters
- Mexican Wedding Cookies

We’ll see just how many of these actually get made. If there’s time, supplies and/or money left in the budget, I want to make turtle candies too.

We got our first real snow of the year. It was ice underneath, too. Meh. I’m not really all that happy about it, but it wasn’t so bad that we didn’t get out of the house today. I managed to procure a gift for the 8yr old child. I still need to get a gift card for the 18yr old. I’m debating between GameStop and iTunes. I know he wants Gears of War 2, but I refuse to shell out that kind of money. I know that my mother is giving him cash, but I want to do something separate myself.

I have to buy a gift for my mother yet, but I have absolutely no idea what the hell to get for her. I have to finish up two gifts to send out, but they won’t be sent out until after the holiday unless by some miracle, there are another hundred hours in a day. I can’t wait until next week is over. Well Monday and Tuesday, that is. They’re going to be busy days. Rob and Mom have appointments Monday, then Rob has one Tuesday afternoon, plus I need to go finish Christmas shopping.

For now, I’m gonna go finish listening to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and do some work.

As per usual, I have a major case of the holiday humbugs. I used to love Christmas, the lights, the tree, the smiles on people’s faces. I still enjoy looking at the lights, but it’s nowhere near the level of love I used to have. I remember, one Christmas right after Rob and I moved back here, we went driving to look at the lights. We haven’t done that since, though.

All the hunting for the right gift, all the money.. all the commercialization of the holiday has put my in a place where I hate the mere thought of Christmas. I put on a smile, suck it up and try not to let my Scrooge-ness ruin it for others, but it’s hard. As a kid, I was happy with whatever I got for Christmas. I didn’t expect the biggest or best things in the world. But now, it seems like kids expect to get whatever they want, no matter the cost.

For Instance, my 18 yr old nephew wants Gears of War 2 for the Xbox. That’s the only thing he asked for and that is a $60 game. The 8 yr old wants a nearly impossible to find set of Magnetix. The other things that were suggested for him are also nearly impossible to find, or if you can find them, they’re out of *my* budget reach. More and more, I realize just how different my sister raised the boys as compared to how we were raised. It makes me sad, really.

But, life will go on. I will go to the Mall Friday, I will shop for the little monster and his brother and they will get what I get them, like it or not. I can’t wait for the holiday to be over, but then I’ll have even more crap to worry about. It’s a never ending cycle. *sigh*

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