Holiday Shopping

Yesterday Justin and I went x-mas shopping then out to dinner. Diane went to a choir concert with her friend Bonnie. Not really my thing. Plus it gave us a chance to get gifts for "our girls".  Of course, we had to start out at Best Buy to look at all the new gadgets.  I was a good boy and didn’t get anything but those 1 gig mp3 music players caught my eye. One of them was down to $129 with a rebate. It’s only a matter of time before I get one. At Hot Topic I saw a couple of small dolls from "The Corpse Bride" for Diane but the checkout line was so long I just put them back. I have little patience for long lines. Justin got Nichole some poka dot PJ’s at Victoria’s Secret along with matching slippers and some perfume. He spend $100. Dec 20 will be 2 years since they started dating. We got some little glass trinkets for stocking stuffers and I got Diane a new journal. I also got a book for Nichole on "Cleveland’s Most Ferocious Female Killers". She’s one of the only women I know who likes slasher type movies and reads books on serial killers. I always kid her about being a serial killer herself.

After the mall Nichole met us at Red Lobster for dinner. We were having such a great time engrossed in conversation that we didn’t even realize that the service was slow until our waitress kept apologizing.  They split some King crab legs and I had a platter (along with a couple gin and tonics).

Justin and I were looking at more colleges earlier in the day. I planted a seed in his mind about looking at Electrical Eng. with a minor in recording technogy. He is really into his music. I think that with his technical ability he could do very well in the field and combine talent with passion. He’s thinking about it.