I don't know how it worked out, but I've figured out how to spend very little money on Christmas presents this year while still giving good gifts. That is, if I can manage to do it all in the short amount of time that I have. Although the wait seems endless, Christmas, I've decided, always catches me by surprise. I blame school. Really. My parents need help decorating and I've got stupid finals. Actually, I have a lot right now. I'm once again working on the church advent production thing--it's not really advent it's a...musical celebration of sorts? Anyway, I'm creating a massive slideshow of images to go along with the dialogues and music of the show and it's very time consuming and I only have a week to do it. I also have to read a 200-some-odd-page book for my government final. That's a whopper. I'm going to try to use this coming weekend to help my parents decorate and get a good leap on my Christmas projects. Excited, stressed, excited, stressed...mostly just wishing the semester would just hurry up and be over with. Carrie