iCal tells me Christmas is next week. I spent the better part of today ordering online, then hitting the local mall for my usual mad last minute shopping.
Next year I'm doing this earlier. I swear.
I am trying to figure out some way to blame Henry VIII. Shouldn't the Protestant Reformation have included moving Christmas to a more convenient month? Like one without so many hours in total darkness? Or perhaps all the influential Protestants emigrated to Australia.
While online, I also signed up for another class. I'm fast forwarding two centuries to Victorian Britain. (By that time, England had joined up with Wales and Scotland to form the empire called Britain. That's why it's "Tudor England" but "Victorian Britain".)
So expect even more kvetching starting in January.
