Since you have ordered stock keep trying to check with your local stores, 12-18th is really hard if not impossible to get by next friday, since we with 1st-8th or less didn't start getting ours yet.
would love to but lucky enough to get the Edu Discount and giving up on that makes the machine a touch more expensive!!!!! I don't think the wife would approve... she is already complaining about it at the moment!!!!