As Christmas draws nearer and nearer (I swear, I just watched 4th of July fireworks like yesterday), something that I think is on everyone's mind is gifts.

Now I'm into peace, love, good will to men, don't get me wrong. But for the holidays this year, I'm excited about 2 things:

• The traffic is thinning out on my daily commute
• I get to open gifts, and they will hopefully be things that I want

Since I'm still relatively new to Houston, I wasn't dying to throw myself into pre-holiday traffic to spend hours pounding the pavement for the perfect gifts for friends and family. Instead, once December finally rolled around, I turned to the interweb *cue angel chorus*