janestarz | X-mas is here already?!

Believe it or not, but Christmas really snuck up on me this year. One day I'm just happily chopping away at my parent's future quilt, the other I realise that OMG tonight there's this dinner-thing at my dad's and I don't have gifts for my stepbrother and his girlfriend yet.
Worse still: I haven't a clue whether my grandmother will be there, and whether my aunt will be there, and what to give them!?
And yet, worse still: We were up until midnight playing D&D and my alarm went of at 6.30 am. There's no way I can stay awake during the festivities tonight, espeically the forced cheerfulness at watching "Kroamschudd'n in Mariaparochie" yet again... for the umpteeth year in a row...

But chill, everything will be fine, it's just a logistical challenge. There's supposedly this grand chocolatier around here, and we'll drop in during lunch. That'll take care of any extra gifts I need to arrange. I can call my dad to check if grandma will be there, but I suspect she will have opted to stay at home because of the snows.

Can anyone please tell me how an old, bearded fellow, his eight or nine reindeer, his sleigh and a ton of gifts can be so stealthily?