Christmas shopping is so stressful. I'm buying gifts for my boyfriend's very large family. And his mom already bought my gifts. This is only my second Christmas ever so I'm really not used to it. Anyone else find Christmas shopping to be incredibly stressful??

Why do you have to buy gifts for every member of his family? Usually it's only necessary to buy for the actual boyfriend and maybe his parents? If you don't know his entire family well, I can't imagine how hard it would be to buy gifts that they would like. :c

He has 2 sisters and a brother. Last year I got them all gifts. It is kind of odd but I've known them two years now and I don't mind spending the money, I just want the presents to be good.

Christmas shopping is definitely stressful.. but I haven't done any this year. I'm in college, and therefore broke. D:

I'm about to graduate college, therefore extra broke lol

Oi. I've got until Feb., 2014 until I get to graduate. :(

That's not too much longer. Save up lol. What do you plan to do when you graduate?

Well, I'm in culinary school now, so I'm hoping to get a job as a chef on a cruise ship. I love to travel and I love to cook, so I figure it could be a good mix. I've heard it's pretty tough, but I'm sure it's worth the free travel.

Wow, that's cool. Way cooler than what I'm doing haha. Good luck!!

Lol thank you. What're you doing?

Getting a Bachelor's degree in English then hoping to get a Masters in creative writing, that is if I get accepted into grad school :)

Oi. Sounds tough lol. Nothing I'd ever want to do.. too much thinking!

Haha that's true, lot's of thinking.

Can't even imagine taking classes about writing. Psh. The less writing the better, in my opinion. Also, mind me adding you as a friend?

Haha that's how a lot of people feel. I would probably set something on fire if I was in culinary school. And no, I don't mind :)

I actually set the pan on fire during my final. I had an A when it was time for the final.. made a whopping 39 on my final and failed the class. I was making chicken chardonnay and our stoves have the flame and I guess oil popped out and caught fire on the pan so I freaked out and took the chicken off the heat. It was raw, my risotto apparently wasn't cooked all the way, and I didn't steam my broccoli long enough. And Chef said my cuts were "horrid". We had to cut a bunch of crap in an hour the day before.. super stressful. Lol. I was dicing an onion and she comes up behind me and looks over my shoulder and says, "Boy, is that the wrong way to cut an onion." THANKS CHEF.

Oh my god! That's horrible! How come so much weight was placed on one dish? That's like something off TV, Gordon Ramsay-esque lol.

That's all we had to make. Just glad she didn't make us make roast beef or anything like that. If I hadn't have set that pan on fire I could have stayed calm and passed, I know it. That's one of the things that bothers me most. AND every class is 2k, so when I fail, there's another $2,000 I gotta pay. My school's expensive. D:

Yeah that's about as much as my classes cost. It sucks. What kinds of classes are they exactly?

What do you mean? I had that one cooking class, Algebra, Foundations of Culinary Techniques and Sustainable Purchasing this past quarter.