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My gift-giving was downsized when I got out of high school. Those acquaintances I used to get small gifts or cards for weren't a part of my life anymore, so I downsized to gifting just to my best friend, whoever I was dating at the time (if anyone) and my family.
This year, my gift-giving circle is increased by nearly double. The ladies at the barn here all give gifts to each other, so I'm trying to do that as well. I was planning charcoal drawings for everyone (to save some cash since I don't have a lot) but I've only gotten model photos for two drawings so far and I doubt I'm going to get the others. I suppose I can either go for other gifts for the ones without drawings or just give them a gift certificate for a drawing when they find a photo they like? Not sure if that's appropriate. Other than them, my family, my best friend, and Crompsin will be receiving gifts. I will be sending my own cards to my family overseas since I no longer live at home and cannot sign the cards my mother sends to them.
The celebratory aspect of Christmas is going to be essentially non-existent for me this year. I don't get to go home to Ohio (as dysfunctional as my family is, the place IS home and I miss it dearly), instead I will be having laser eye surgery on the 19th and will probably be blind until right before Christmas. Crompsin's family may come over again, but I don't know that I'll be ready to cook for them and will probably just feel sorry for myself for being unable to go home and unable to see my best friend and my parents.
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"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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