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" Did you get all your holiday shopping done? I&amp;#039;m done \u2014 well, we&amp;#039;ve been kinda cheap this year, so lots of extraneous people got cut off the Xmas list this year. And our per-person budget went down. But I&amp;#039;m done. And I know what I&amp;#039;m getting for Christmas! Dan was at a loss for what to get me so we went shopping and I pointed a few things out...practical, fairly inexpensive things, mind you. But despite our economic woes, Dan was like, &amp;quot;Baby, I want to get something you like and want, not new black tights and a mascara.&amp;quot; OK, I understand where he&amp;#039;s coming from, but still...these were things I needed. So I showed him a necklace I liked and a handbag that I liked. Then I left him. When we met back up, it was obvious from the size of the bag that Dan splurged and got the handbag for me. As excited as I am to have a lovely new bag, truth be told, I didn&amp;#039;t NEED a new handbag, and I&amp;#039;m having a hard time looking forward to opening it because I know soon we&amp;#039;ll be opening the bill for it. But what can I say? That Dan, he wants to make me happy and how can I complain? As for Dan, I bought his gift in October, before he lost his job. Dan loves getting dressed for work\u2014he wears snazzy suits with wild ties and he loves, loves, loves cufflinks. He has said to me, &amp;quot;One day, when I retire and I can&amp;#039;t wear my suits, I&amp;#039;ll start going to church regularly so that I can still dress up.&amp;quot; (Yeah, we don&amp;#039;t go to church regularly now, but alas, when the spirit moves us, we will). So I decided to buy him a splurge-worthy tie for Christmas \u2014 this gorgeous silk tie from Hermes. Since I bought it before Dan&amp;#039;s job loss, it&amp;#039;s paid for. And truth is, I got it on final clearance so I wouldn&amp;#039;t be able to return it anyway. But even on final clearance, it was freakin&amp;#039; expensive! Anyway, when Dan opens his gift on Christmas, I&amp;#039;m not worried about him commenting on the price tag. I&amp;#039;m worried about how he&amp;#039;ll feel getting a tie that for the forseeable future, he won&amp;#039;t be wearing. Sigh. Had I known, I never would&amp;#039;ve. I hope he loves it and wears it while he&amp;#039;s searching for a job on the Internet. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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