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Dec. 11th, 2004 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2Today is a day for trying to get my Christmas gift act together. And as usual, I find myself wondering, "What would (insert person's name) want? Would they want this? Do they already have this?
Gift buying is best when you come across stuff completely by accident and realize your friend would probably love it. The flip side is trying to buy gifts on purpose on a deadline... if you think about it too much and put too much pressure on yourself, you can really drive yourself crazy, and then it becomes a burden rather than what it should be. Buying a gift for a friend should be fun. Joyous, even, if I can use such a monumentally overused word at this time of the year.
I've ordered several things online, and most of them are the kind of gifts that people don't expect but will hopefully like. That's good. I went out today and bought a few more things, some of which I hadn't really had in mind to begin with, so that's also good. I'm throwing some caution to the wind in that I've bought several things that my friends might potentially already have, but then again, it's mostly me worrying about getting the perfect gift -- something that you like that you hadn't thought of buying for yourself. Like I said, the pressure you might feel while shopping for gifts is only pressure you put on yourself. Your friends are not half as worried that you'll get them the perfect gift -- or any gift at all -- as you are worried about giving them something they'll like.
Well anyway, I still have shopping to do and realistically I will need to finish it up by tomorrow. In theory I can get up early and do shopping before going to work, since I don't work until 4 pm every day. In practice, I rarely get up early enough to accomplish anything before I need to head to work.
For the second week in a row I tried to get my oil changed at Town & Country Chrysler Jeep, where I bought my car. I was told I had four free oil changes as part of my car purchase. Last week I was thwarted by showing up at 4 pm, and learning that they closed at 4 pm Saturday and were closed all Sunday. So today I showed up at 2 pm, and was told that they couldn't fit me in, that they were busy through 4 pm, and I would need to make an appointment for sometime next week.
No thanks. Make an appointment for an oil change? Please. I drove to Jiffy Lube. It wasn't free, but it also took twelve full minutes and I was back on the road. You know, time is money, you get what you pay for, and all of that. I'm not really interested in having to work around someone else's schedule and maybe wait an hour or more just to get my oil changed. That's not free, it costs me in time and convenience.
Gift buying is best when you come across stuff completely by accident and realize your friend would probably love it. The flip side is trying to buy gifts on purpose on a deadline... if you think about it too much and put too much pressure on yourself, you can really drive yourself crazy, and then it becomes a burden rather than what it should be. Buying a gift for a friend should be fun. Joyous, even, if I can use such a monumentally overused word at this time of the year.
I've ordered several things online, and most of them are the kind of gifts that people don't expect but will hopefully like. That's good. I went out today and bought a few more things, some of which I hadn't really had in mind to begin with, so that's also good. I'm throwing some caution to the wind in that I've bought several things that my friends might potentially already have, but then again, it's mostly me worrying about getting the perfect gift -- something that you like that you hadn't thought of buying for yourself. Like I said, the pressure you might feel while shopping for gifts is only pressure you put on yourself. Your friends are not half as worried that you'll get them the perfect gift -- or any gift at all -- as you are worried about giving them something they'll like.
Well anyway, I still have shopping to do and realistically I will need to finish it up by tomorrow. In theory I can get up early and do shopping before going to work, since I don't work until 4 pm every day. In practice, I rarely get up early enough to accomplish anything before I need to head to work.
For the second week in a row I tried to get my oil changed at Town & Country Chrysler Jeep, where I bought my car. I was told I had four free oil changes as part of my car purchase. Last week I was thwarted by showing up at 4 pm, and learning that they closed at 4 pm Saturday and were closed all Sunday. So today I showed up at 2 pm, and was told that they couldn't fit me in, that they were busy through 4 pm, and I would need to make an appointment for sometime next week.
No thanks. Make an appointment for an oil change? Please. I drove to Jiffy Lube. It wasn't free, but it also took twelve full minutes and I was back on the road. You know, time is money, you get what you pay for, and all of that. I'm not really interested in having to work around someone else's schedule and maybe wait an hour or more just to get my oil changed. That's not free, it costs me in time and convenience.
