Presents!

Its christmas time!

Its also birthday time for my household (3 birthdays in 2 weeks after christmas).

I like buying people presents, but im also lazy... brb christmas office bbq...b. wasnt too bad, there was beer and pavlova.

Anyway, i like buying presents for people, but i find that if it takes more than a few days to come up with an idea i usually give up fairly easily. its hard to decide on waht to buy my flatmate tho. i got one of them something i thouht was really nice. It was a group present, and i organised it.

But one of my other flatmates made some comment about how presumtuous it was to buy presents for people without asking them if it was something they want. I got really annoyed at him for saying this, and i think its because i enjoy trying to find something for people who i like and so it was somehow saying that i dont really like those people properly because i am presuming too much in deciding what they want to recieve.

Anyway it is him who i cant think of to get a present. And while normally i would give up at this point and just not bother to get a present at all, he knows that i got this other flatmate a present because he went in on it. So in total it would be very "fuck you" if i didnt. And although i dont think he got me a present for my birthday, giving other people a present is more about me than about them. Its how i can show i feel i like them enough to give them a present, that i feel like i know them enough to choose for them, and how not showing that would make me feel bad. Its not an equality thing.

So now i need to come up with a present for him, or at least go in on a group present, although i dont normally like going in on group presents unless i agree with the present in question. I dont really have any ideas tho.

I managed to get presents for my sister and my brothers gf, i have ideas for my brother, my parents, my aunt and one friend from highschool. I still have little to no idea for my other sister and her husband, my cuz or a couple of my friends i decided to get presents for this year.

Im also making some desserts and bringing some wine to my sisters christmas party this year. although i havent worked out recipe ingreadiants yet. I am inspired by fodder to cook for my family to show how i feel for them.

Tbh, i almost dont feel like getting my flatmate anything, he has been a bit of a shit lately, nothing major, just annoying me here and there. But i know afterwards i will regret the missed opitunity, you only have one birthday a year.

Also me and some friends are goin away for new years, and i decided to bring some champagne and mixers to make simple champagne cocktails for the girls who are coming. I think it would be nice to bring them something that they might like. Normally the girls dont get treated specailly enough i think, i know that sounds a bit sexist, but i am not doing it because i feel they are less capable or etc, as i know they could sort it out if they were interested. Instead i am doing it because i want to, because i want to show them some consideration and that i enjoy their company. Maybe the sexist element here is the idea that because they are girls they will like champagne cocktails, but i ASKED. :P