[Bumper]

I guess we're largely in the same boat around Casa Bumper as everybody else these days. I just love buying gifts, especially for Mrs. B, but we're at the point where we just don't want anything anymore. We long ago passed the point of need, which has little to do with want anyway. For the most part, if we need something...we just go buy it, which makes it tough to get things for folks. Okay, you can always get consumables, like corks for my wine making hobby, or a special favourite kind of booze, or blank CD's to burn, or printer paper, or along thse lines, but other than that...?? We're both dieting, and have no notion of what size we'll finally be, so clothes are out. How much jewelry can you wear? How much perfume or after shave can you use? The library has lots of books. Videos and DVD's can be rented. There's only so much wall space to be filled with art. There's no Hard Rock Cafes around here to buy pins from. How many cross stitch kits can you do at a time? I think we're spoiled and jaded. "Things" just don't seem to matter much anymore, and I guess that's probably the way it should be. Friends and family are what really matters. (Boy...am I ever being sappy today. I better come up with something disrespectful, impertinent, flippant and marginally vulgar to say pretty soon, or my reputation for irreverence is in jeopardy.)