I know someone who was really both obsessive and compulsive about a lot of things, and she told me recently that she has been starting on her Christmas shopping list and wanted to know if I had any ideas to share with her. So anyway, I have never been rude to her so I told her of a few of my own finds from the shopping binge I had last year, which was just a couple of months ago in fact, some of them big hits for my friends that I was pretty confident her own loved ones would appreciate as well. I started out with my gifts for my lady friends, many of whom had just gotten married or recently starting a family; I got many of them baby clothes with matching blouses or shirts for the mommies, and while a couple did not know yet for sure if the baby they were carrying was a boy or a girl, I got them unisex articles which would still look good whatever gender their little bundles of joy would turn out to be. The idea of getting something fun that tickled the brain brought me to the toy store for my guy buddies, most of whom seemed stuck in the mentality of their college or even high school years, unlike the ladies who had moved on to another stage of their lives. One of them got a modified version of the old puzzle cube while a tangled chain type of toy that one needed to unsnarl was given to another, both of which were immediately attacked by their new owners with glee and confirmed my idea that boys never do grow up despite their ages. After my very structured workmate jotted down those suggestions on her notebook, she eagerly left to search out other plausible gift ideas.