It finally stopped raining today. I hear it’s going to start up again in a couple days. The respite today was nice. Funny how I wish for no rain now after 200 days dry. Bad weather gets annoying quickly.
We are starting the tough work of the Christmas season today. In earnest. We are leaving for Hawaii on Tuesday (I know you feel sorry for me) so we need to get advent calendars done now.
Speaking of advent calendars, Emily decided to make four of them. She is working on those today. She made the mistake of telling the recipients they would be getting them, by the 1st of course. But now she has told them she is stuck and must finish before Tuesday when we leave.
So, today’s work. I am advent shopping alone. Emily is sewing all day. I am really glad I can’t help. I left in the morning not to early. I went to Cost Plus first since it has the best choice of stocking stuffers. It also has the hidden prizes in the store which makes it more fun. I found lots of stocking stuffers. I concentrated on food, candy and booze. The essentials. I found no prizes. Not fun.
Next up I went to Best Buy. I need to find a replacement for our Roomba. This morning our Roomba again sucked up and smeared around dog poop in our dining qroom. Not the first time. I am hoping there is some new technology in the robotic vacuums that stop the vac from doing this.
I spoke to the Roomba lady and told her my tale of woe. She diligently tried to find out something. Finally she was able to get ahold of the Roomba sales rep, on a Saturday, and he said forget it. No such Roomba. So I have to stick with the old one. And it’s real old and it stinks, obviously. But I saved a lot of money not buying one. The silver lining.
Emily has decided we need to start using a digital TV antenna so we can get rid of cable. She was at her favorite glass store yesterday and the owner, Hazel, bent Emily’s ear about it. She just loves her digital antenna. So today while at Beat Buy I bought one of these “magic” antennas that deliver all stations for free. Right. Have not plugged it in yet, but have low expectations. It’s just a digital antenna. From the way Emily gushed you’d think it cures cancer.
Next up, some really easy stocking shopping. I went to Bed, Bath & Beyond. Emily uses many of their products and this place is a go to for quite a few items. I like easy. Kinda pricey but whatever. And, with the parking lot there completely full and jammed up, I got a spot directly in front of the store. Probably due to clean living.
Next stop was Target, for toothbrushes and toothpaste. This is a stocking staple. The only time I can guarantee that my kids will change their toothbrush. It’s not much fun but some thing’s are necessity.
I had a quick errand to run for Emily. She was out of sewing machine needles. I stopped at the fabric store and actually managed, with help, to find them. And I managed to navigate thru and get the correct school project pipe cleaners too. I amaze myself at times.
Back home. Emily is still working on the advent calendars. Still. I brought in the haul and took time to sort all the stuff into four piles (Marika, Emily, Michael and Carly). It was actually quite a lot of work. I had to count out 24 items each and set aside the balance for the regular stocking. It took awhile.
I made dinner and did everything else while Emily continued to sew the advent calendars. She took on too much. She is not complaining. I did some laundry. Cleaned up a few things. Made Emily a cocktail. She did not finish till 930. Yikes. She sat down in front of the TV and fell asleep. Just like that.
I think she will be going to bed soon I think. Me too.