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I am completely at a loss on Christmas ideas...help!? I have quite a few people I need to buy for this year, but don't really have an idea of what or where to start. If I tell you a little bit about the people, could you help me think of presents that might work? My budget is pretty open. Fiance: Already ordered him a Roku netflix player - need another idea, too. He's a complete and total movie freak. He's also really into martial arts, running, cooking, travel, and music. He already has all the clothes/shoes/accessories that he wants. He also really enjoys camping and the outdoors. He wanted a kayak, but we have no place to store that in our condo. He's a videographer by profession, so anything related to that would be good, but would also probably be more than I can afford. Any ideas? Father: No idea. Help! He's very much a guy's guy, and loves woodworking and lathe work, and motorcycles (BMW - he's not a Harley guy or a biker type - just likes to ride.) He also likes music to some degree. Fiance's mother: Again, help me. She already HAS everything she could possibly want, and has everything she could want/need to decorate her home. She runs a franchise jewelry business, and travels a LOT. She's really kind of a fun-spirited hippy chick. I like her. :-) Fiance's Father/Stepmom: This is what's particularly stumping me. They are very well traveled and affluent - it's truly a 'what to get the couple who has everything' question. They work together as a team in higher education, travel all over the world constantly, and are highly interested in diplomacy, peace in the Middle East, and humanitarianism. My sister: She is married and has 6 children. She is a nurse, and so is her husband. I'd like to get a 'family present', so I don't have to buy 8. She's into Yoga a lot lately, and loves to read. My brother: Lives in Alaska with his wife and 16 year old daughter. He's a machinist, gun enthusiast, and hunter. He also loves motorcycles, snomobiling, and paintball. Read: Redneck. I would also like to get a 'family gift' for them as well. My aunt: We are visiting her over the holidays, and I'd like to give her a 'thank you' gift for having us. She is in her late 60's, and enjoys dogs, gardening, cooking, wine, and travel.

Tell me if this is fair? So theres me and my brother.. My brother is 25, I'm 19. He goes to the best university in the nation, and I'm doing cc at home. I accept, fail on my part. But I think my brother is favored in the family. He buys $60 cologne, my mom buys me a .99 cent perfume from the dollar store and gets mad when I don't use all of it. And yells at me for it. He buys $100 jeans, and my mom thinks $10 for a blouse is too much for me. When he comes home from university, my mom LITERALLY acts like I'm not even there, and if she has to run some errands in the morning and she isn't going to be home, she wakes me up and asks me to call her the moment my brother wakes up. When I used to dorm, none of this ever happened. So my parent's anniversary is 4 days before xmas, so we get money for that (its weird my parents give us money for their anniversary, but its a tradition, and we don't celebrate xmas). My parents give me $200 (which they expect me to use to buy anything I want for a whole year. When I say anything, I mean from clothes, to accessories to random stuff I want from the store. My brother gets courtside tickets to a Laker game. When I want to go to the movies with my friends, my mom has to know the movie, the plot line, the time of the showing, when I'm going to leave, when I'm going to come home. My brother gets to go out whenever he wants, and comes home at 4am. Also, when we come home for the holidays, we have to go by our parents rules, so he ends up sleeping at 430am with friends over, and doesn't even get yelled at, but if I sleep at 12am or 1am I get in trouble. He got a BMW as a surprise for getting into Harvard, and my parents keep on saying I'll never get into grad school, they say it everyday. He loses his $300 mp3/ipod and/or just FEELS like buying a new one, and bought a digital camera in 2 days, and my parents encourage him to buy new things like that, and with me, they won't even buy me a game for my video game console. My brother was going out of town for NYE, and my dad stuffs a wad of $20 bills in his jacket (about $500), and tells him "its just for expenses". I mean, some of the little inconsiderate stuff he does, my mom doesn't yell at him for, but when I used to do those same things as a kid, I used to get whopped like a mother*!@#$%. And when my mom accuses me of saying something, and I prove her wrong she goes "Oh it doesn't matter", but if in the same situation, I couldn't prove it to her, she'd scream and yell and make a big deal. And she always gives my brother the benefit of the doubt. Like she'll never accuse him of anything. She told me that he has such good of a "character" that I'm not even worth the dirt on his shoe. In our family, going out with the opp sex etc is very taboo, but my brother goes out and drinks (to the knowledge of my mother), and talks to her about his gfs etc. However, if I mention a celebrity on tv, my mom acts like I slept with him or something. lol And most of this happened before he got into Harvard. I used to go to UCSD, and he was working at the times that most of this happened.

would you consider these stereotypes of houston high schools true? *Memorial High School- I live in one of the richest parts of Houston and my house is the size of a Dinosaur. If I am a girl I drive a Mercedes or BMW, if I am a guy I drive a Tahoe or some other kind of large SUV. We are like Bellaire and Lamar times 10. Our school is about as diverse as an Abercrombie catalogue and looks just like it. We party every weekend because we are rich, bored and have nothing else better to do with our lives. Our football team is pretty good and Roger Clemens' son went here I think. We say we have the "hottest girls in Houston " and we mean it. Our mascot is the same as the ultimate snob college: SMU. I am a Mustang. *Katy,Taylor and Cinco HS - I live in an area that is really nice but its cheap as hell.Our parents could not afford to live in memorial or bellaire.I might drive a car that is worth more than my house. We are considered "hicks" by the inner houston kids.If im a girl i am blonde and will probably have skin cancer really soon. Our football team is among the best in the nation due to D-ball and other steroids.We have field parties and everyone gets laid. If im a guy, i love to get in fights.If im a girl i love to sleep with my best friends bf. I am a Tiger. *St. Thomas High School- I am probably white and preppy or I drive a big truck and pretend to be a cowboy. My truck has a lift and giant wheels even though I live in River Oaks. My granddaddy, my dad, my uncle and my brothers went to St. Thomas , I couldnt go anywhere else or I would be dead. We act like homosexuals, but if you show any signs of actual homosexuality you are as good as dead. We go to football games, but we don't cheer or give a shit because our team sucks and all we are interested in is meeting girls. I haven't seen a minority in years. I hate fish, I love beer. I am an Eagle. *St. Pius High School- Even though I am probably white and middle class, I pretend to act like a prep or a cowboy. I am neither because I can not afford the clothes and accessories to be those things. I either got rejected from St. Thomas or St. Agnes and thats why I am here. My school is a dump, but I don't care because we have girls, unlike St. Thomas . We hate St. Thomas because they are a real school and call them "gay" even though we have more gay students. I think our football team is good, but I dont go to games because I don't own a car. I am a Panther. *Lamar High School- I am either a rich white kid or desperately poor. We have so many cliques because for some reason every group under the Sun goes to our school. There are the "IB Students" who segregate themselves from the normals. Our school is the size of a small town in Texas and our school would explode if we had anymore people. Football team? Yeah I they are good but I dont go to games because either I am too busy with my mercedes or can't afford to attend the games. I am a Redskin. *Strake Jesuit College Preparatory- I live in Sugarland or some other suburb and I have long hair. I drive a Passat because I pretend to be an environmentalist. It doesnt matter who you talk to on our campus, they have all smoked pot at one point. Even though we are snobs who couldnt care less about other people we pretend to be "men for others". I hate people from Katy almost as much as I hate St. Thomas . For some reason my school is located between Chinatown and a ghetto. We have a good football team, but I wasnt allowed to play any sports because I wasn't recruited. I love St. Agnes girls, any other girls are scum. I play hacky sack, I dip and I listen to Phish. I am a Crusader. *Bellaire High School- I live in a city that considers itself too good for the city of Houston . Even though I am rich, I am not above using lots of drugs and behaving like a total ass. There are lots of hot girls at my school, but they are all reserved for football and baseball players. I hate the baseball team and baseball players, I used to play baseball at some point in my life, but I sucked. I drive an SUV or a sports car and I love to flaunt it. I am a Cardinal. *Stratford High school- I live in the "poor" area of memorial, that is the under a million part.I am upper middle class ,but compared to memorial kids i am poor.We hate westside and they hates us.I go to a school with no windows. Theres never anything to do on the weekends except for whataburger. Unlike memorial kids...i dont drive a brand new BMW,but a used lexus. I know everything about everybody and everybody knows everything about me.I go to parties that get busted before they even start.We are known for our prude girls and having the best good looking guys.Our football team always gets their ass kicked by Memorial... I am a Spartan. *St. Agnes Academy- I am probably a rich girl. I drink a lot and if I'm really adventurous, I smoke. Mommy and Daddy wanted me to go to a school in a "Christian" environment, so they put me in the biggest dram a filled shark tank in the city of Houston . For the St. Thomas/Strake rivalry, we choose sides by which school has the cutest guys. We are the ultimate sister school, not IWA or Duschene. We also have an all boys school next door, unlike them. HAHA. We love to have dances, even though they usually suck. I would be in a sport, but omygawsh have you seen their uniforms. I am a Tiger. *Episcopal High School- I live in the Bellaire area, but it doesnt really matter where I live because I still have more money than you. I am rich beyond your wildest dreams, yet I constantly screw up and get busted with drugs. If you don't have a laptop you better get one and if you dont have a BMW or Mercedes you better get one. Did I mention we really love drugs here. Even though we are a "religious" school, we have almost no religion in our lives at all. Our lacrosse team is pretty good, but I don't even know what that is. Have fear, I am A Knight. *Westside High School revised- Our school looks like a resort and since we are a new school, we have not been totally filled with undesirable people, drugs and crime(until now). I live either in the ghetto or in a rich area(probably the ghetto).Our school is full of New Orleans kids.We provide most of the drugs to all the rich schools,and break into their cars while doing it.If im a girl i am probaly dating a black guy or a wigger.If your looking for some weed let me know. I am a Wolve. *St. Johns School- We are pretty similar to Episcopal, except even richer and in the River Oaks Area. Pot? Please, our housekeeper gets his Pot from me, Pot is sooo passe. My parents didn't want to send me to Lamar and expose me to an ounce of diversity. I play sports, but we only play other super rich schools like Episcopal and Kinkaid, so we suck. We claim to be private, but we have no religion classes or real religious affliliation. We used to be called the rebels, but we thought that would offend minority students, but we dont have any of those. I a m a Rebel... errr I mean Maverick. *Westbury High School- We used to be a great school kinda like Lamar or Bellaire. But once integration started in the 1970's our school went to hell. My school is in a middle class suburb, but almost none of the white kids in the area go to my school. If I am white that means I am a total screw-up. Even Black students are no longer going here, because of how much our teams suck. We like to "defend our turf" against New Orleans kids. Even though we are mostly minorities, our mascot is a major Confederate symbol. I am a Rebel. *The Kinkaid School- See " St Johns School " except we are in Memorial.

is she spoiled or not? ok so i have a very close friend (14 yrs old) and i was wondering if she is as spoiled as she seems or not. when i go to her house, first of all her house was about $530,000. They have four cars: a black bmw, a toyota carolla for the mom, and toyota land cruiser, they recently got a black pick-up for the 3 restaurants they own (family business w/ brother). The two family's together own 4 houses. My friend has a walk in closet from mainly nordstrom, forever 21, Macy's, abercrombie, etc. she has one north face jacket about $100, an ipod nano 16gb 5th generation, a blackberry phone, a coach wallet about $100, shoes from aldo, nordstrom, and she just recently went to her country and did a little shopping a little over $1,000 worth shopping on her clothes, shoes, and accessories. she also has a sony digital touch screen camera. so my question basicaly is...is she a spoiled brat? oh and she has a laptop, and 2 desktops one that she shareswith her sister though her parents do spoil her sometimes in my opinion but then again sometimes they just give it to her. sorry i meant to say that sometimes they make her earn it but sometimes they jsut give it lol sorry :PP well you know she does include me im NOT asking this so i can break my friendship with her i say brat in a funny sense. shes does include me and ask me if i wanna do things, i mean sure she sometimes gets all excitied saying "i just bought......!!!" but you doesnt right? would do you guys think?