So we’re saving for our wedding and desperately trying to pinch pennies so we both agreed to exchange one gift… an iPod touch. I thought this was of course a frivolous waste of $250 but it saves me from shopping and both of us from trying to outspend each other.

I got mine engraved and it says: “Always overcoming the bridge home to you. I love you.” He got mine in the Apple store, and they don’t engrave. Oh well.

We exchanged them early and I am so in love. This is like that Lexis commercial where the little girl wants a pony and then it flashes to her getting a Lexis – the bitch.  But this is the best gift ever.

Moral of my story: when in a gift giving competition, agree to one gift and make it as good as you can afford. Now I return to knitting the rest of my gifts… And to those of you who think that’s being cheap go price some non-synthetic fiber. Mmmm alpaca.

Happy Festivus to all and beware of stray Long Islanders lest you wish to be stampeded for the last easy bake oven!

At a Wal*Mart on Long Island on Black Friday, a worker trying to open the doors was swamped, crushed, and killed by a mob of about 500 people at 5 in the morning. As paramedics came to try to help the man, people kept passing him as if he didn’t exist.

In less than four weeks, the Christmas shopping season comes to a close. A total of 26 official shopping days for you to go to the store and try to buy whatever it is you can for your loved ones. Or at least your liked ones.

But not for that guy’s family.