It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas

At least inside my house. :o) Although, we do have some snow on the ground. We had quite a snowfall yesterday. We ended up with over a foot before it finally stopped. Not that I'm complaining, mind you. I LOVE winter! The snow was so beautiful. I love watching it snow. I tired really hard to convince the principal to declare a snow day and send us home, but he wouldn't budge. :o)

My shopping is almost done. We're going to Town next weekend. I hope to finish up then. Once that's done, all that's left is the baking. I'm still wondering how we'll manage. Michael's part should be easy. The plan is, for him to work for 2 more weeks. It looks like the weather will shut them down. So he'll have an entire week before I get my Christmas Break to finish up his bread. If he bakes on Wednesday and Thursday, then I can start on Friday and hopefully be done by Saturday evening. If I bake around the clock, maybe. haha

I can't believe Christmas is almost here already! Tomorrow's the 1st of December! Where has the time gone? The 22nd is the last day of our semester. That's crazy. We're colder than normal this year so I've been battling illness after illness. I've quit staying home when I feel sick because I was spending more time in bed than at work.

I hope the rest of you (if anyone's still reading) are happy, well, and ready for Christmas! I hope to catch up on your blogs soon. BUT I have to decorate my tree first! :o)

A Change of Tide

Boy, what a day we had on Saturday! Michael and I went to Town to spend some time with Theodore (his birthday is coming up), get the rest of our "fixings" for Thanksgiving, check on the status of our TV, and get my Christmas Bears from Wal-Mart.

So many things kept happening and we managed to stay just ahead of it all. We were so lucky all day long!

First, we picked up Theodore and took him to Wal-Mart to choose his birthday gift. We had a smooth, steady ride all the way out there. He was quicker than expected so we decided to buy him lunch. Of course he picked McDonalds. He said, "Aunty, I can eat a whole Big Mac!" We brought him there, bought him the Big Mac meal, and sure enough...he ate the whole thing. Burger, fries, AND a medium root beer! On the way in from Wal-Mart, we noticed the traffic going the other way was almost at a stand-still. We were lucky enough to be on the side NOT blocked by construction work on the way out and on the way back.

We had to run a few errands and ended up picking up a friend who wanted to go to Wal-Mart. So, we dropped Theodore off and went back out to Wal-Mart. Again...no traffic troubles. We were in Wal-Mart for the better part of an hour. We finally finish up, head to the car and as we're leaving the parking lot the power went out. We left JUST in time!

We dropped our friend off at the restaraunt near the ferry terminal (still no traffic troubles) and headed to Safeway. When we got to the intersection, the lights were still off. We turned into the parking lot, parked, and the mall lights came on. PERFECT timing!

I don't know how many times we'd pull off the main road only to see a fire engine go by. I think it was at least 3 times. We never did have to pull over and let them pass. The timing was just right for us that day.

Things have never gone so well over there for us. Usually we're stressed about time. But not today. Even the weather was on our side. We had a pleasant ride over. Once we got there, it rained pretty hard and got rather windy. It calmed down before we loaded the ferry and didn't get stormy again until after we were home. I don't know what it was. But we definitely had luck on OUR side!

I Am Having the Worst Luck!

My ISP has been ringing busy for over a week now! I can connect, but it takes a LONG TIME. I set my dialer to re-dial 215 times when the line is busy. There have been many times that I've had to start over because I reached the limit and still hadn't connected. It's SO frustrating.

I'm also getting frustrated by the weather. I want it to get cold. I want it to get really cold. We're stuck in the 30's and it's raining. :o(

I'm irritated with the TV repair people. They finally let us take our TV in to be repaired and then they went on a 2 week workshop! They get back tomorrow. Hopefully, they finished the TV before they left, or will have it fixed by the 18th. That's the date of our next trip over and it would be good to bring the TV back with us. I don't watch a lot of TV, but I'm still irritated.

I hate that this has all been negative...but that's my life lately. At least I've stopped sneezing and haven't had a fever in days!

NO Time

I feel like the White Rabbit. Constantly late...sometimes not even arriving at my destination.

I've been fighting cold after cold. Most recently, a mild flu. Tonight was my first time out of the house since Tuesday afternoon because it was my first day without a fever.

I have been having problems getting online. I'm still on dial-up and my internet provider has been ringing busy for day. When I do manage to get online, I don't stay on very long because I'm on the main phone line at the moment and don't want to tie up the line.

What little time I do find online is monopolized by my mother. She's either got a million questions about a million different things or wants me to play a game with her. I'm lucky to keep up with e-mail. I can't ever find time to chat with anyone else or type a post.

The weather around here has been so nice. Mid 30's to low 40's...clear, sunny skies...slight, cool breezes. I love this kind of weather. Only way it could be better is to be colder...with a snowflake or two. :o)