Hot damn, it’s nice to have my sister back in the country. As we approach her birthday, let’s celebrate my annual gifting tradition. 

1. Buy her a present. It’s so good, I have to get it now even thought it’s months until her birthday. Plus it’s on sale at the moment, and I don’t want to blow my gifting budget so early in the year*. 

2. Lose the first present in the intervening months. Buy her another one. This one is even more fantastic. It’s so completely her. 

3. Start wondering if the second present is so fantastic I should actually just keep it, and just buy her a bunch of flowers or something. 

4. Have a horrible creeping feeling that the reason the gift feels so her is that she’s already got something identical to it. It’s so completely her that she already owns it. 

5. End up just showing her the present/describing it to her in great detail. She wants it, but she also wants whatever my alternative present was going to be. 

6. Get her both, and some socks, and a book I think she should read but know she never will. ££££ :((((((

FIN 

*LOL budget LOLLLLLLLLLL