Today:
1. Laundry
2. Mall. Buy Rebecca shoes and clothing. Avoid all holiday displays and purchases. Eyes water from the fumes of all the candles in the Yankee Candle store.
3. Target. Buy clothing and Gameboy game for child adopted by a friend for the holidays.
4. Home.
5. Cut back the day lilies and pull a few weeds.
6. Target. Realize we forgot to buy Christmas gifts for Rebecca's friends.
7. Mall. Pick up Caitlin and friends. Hunt down a DVD for Rebecca which requires traipsing through the entire mall again. Santa looks tired and there's still a long line of kids to have their pictures taken with him.
8. Home.
9. Put away groceries spouse went shopping for.

For all the whining that women do about men's inability to keep bathrooms clean, they (women) turn into complete pigs when using public restrooms. The one at Target today was an abomination of filth, most of which should have been cleaned up by the women who made the mess. Yuck.

Books: Finished the curious incident book. Murder, infidelity, cruel treatment - all seen through the eyes of an autistic teenager. Started the fifth book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, one of my guilty pleasures.

Movies:

1. Love Actually. The reviews I read of this all focused on the number of story threads (each critic thought there were too many) contained in the movie. There were not many at all and had they paid attention to the beginning and end of the movie they might not have been so quick to jump to this conclusion. You don't ever have just one story running through your own life at any point in time, nor one relationship, and the ability to manage them all, keep them in perspective, is an art that some people never master. Perhaps the reviewers need to work on this a bit more. (Question: Most attractive man in this movie?)

2. Bend it Like Beckham. Not as wonderful as I would have thought, but a pleasant enough movie. Perhaps this is just my pre-holiday Grinch-like attitude showing through.