Are yoo ready?

A friend and I were talking yesterday and she said "It's about a week and a half to Christmas."  When I pointed out to her that it was exactly one week till Christmas she got a kind of 'deer in the headlights' look and I could see the panic setting in.  Of course, she and her husband had just the day before returned from a two-week stay at a resort in Florida followed by a one-week cruise in the Caribbean so it was hard to work up much sympathy for her 'not yet ready for the holidays' concerns.  I did find it amusing to hear that her husband, a mensa-brilliant 81 year old who walks with a walker, won the lip sync contest on their cruise ship singing "Yellow Submarine."  Obviously he has hidden talents.  And she has pictures - always good for a little familial blackmail on down the road.