June to November - presents slowly pile up in the wardrobe as I spot either the right gift for a person, or the right gift for some person. The trip to Surfer's helped considerably with this, although getting everything back again was an exercise in logistics (or possibly tetris).
Last week of November - Ben and I sit down and write a list of people we want to gift to this year. Then I pull all the present bags out, and we match names to gifts.
First week of December - I acquire a few more presents for names that needed them, and then spend four episodes of Angel wrapping and labelling before I pop all the presents on a table in the corner of the lounge.
Since then - I've spent the intervening time being mildly pleased to be out of the shopping madness, and a little sorry for those who are caught up in it.
Tonight...
Tonight it rained. Rained hard. (It also rained hard this afternoon, and I was caught in it and drenched.) This hard rain, it turns out, occurred when a certain window in the lounge was open. Certain window being behind the low table of presents. Certain window being in exactly the direction that the wind was blowing all the rain. Ben realised reasonably quickly, but not quickly enough ...
Result: a lot of damp presents (also a damp table, bookcase, and a whole lotta anime, CD's and figurines). About 1/3 of the presents were caught, and about 1/2 of those are going to need re-wrapping. *sigh* Luckily anything that could have been damaged by the water was bubble-wrapped or plastic-wrapped or in a box. So no absolute damage, other than to wrapping.
But my pleasure at having everything done and complete all early? Hmm. Consider me chastised.
Good thing I've still got a few rolls of wrapping paper, huh?
Current Mood: 
amused (or is the bemused?)
amused (or is the bemused?)