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  • How many weeks until Christmas? FIVE

    Monday, November 23rd, 2009

    If you look at my Christmas Countdown ticker at the bottom of the right sidebar, it’s 31 days until Christmas. So I suppose mathematically, that’s four weeks plus a few days, but the way I look at it, there’s this whole week (Monday to Friday), and then four more weeks of Monday to Friday until Christmas. Okay, it’s weird math, but it’s MY weird math, LOL.

    So, has anyone else started shopping for gifts? I’ve had three text documents saved since the beginning of last month, one for Kaitlyn, one for the boys, and one for Chris, and in each one, I make a note each time any of them say “you know what I’d like for Christmas?” Of course, Kaitlyn’s list changes pretty much daily, so anything she only mentioned once gets deleted from the list. The few things she’s mentioned over and over got bumped up to the top.

    Last night I went to bed at about 11:30, and at 12:45 AM, I was still laying there wide awake. I realized that what I was thinking about was all of the people I’d like to give Christmas presents to, family as well as close friends. I was trying to think of a way that I could accomplish two goals: 1. find Cheap Christmas Gifts and 2. not have to run around to multiple stores dealing with huge crowds. What works best for me is coming up with one gift that works for everyone. So there I am at 12:45 in the morning, and I realized I had just thought of the PERFECT gift that works for everybody!

    So, I jump out of bed, turn on the lamp, put on my glasses, pick up a pen off the floor, find a little notebook on my dresser, get back in bed, and start making a list of the families and friends I want to give gifts to.  I made that list, then I made a list of people to make sure to send Christmas cards to. I was done in about fifteen minutes, and when I finished, I put the pen and notebook down on my nightstand, took off my glasses, turned off the lamp, and fell sound asleep!  Apparently, all I need to be able to sleep is to write down all the thoughts swirling around in my head in a notebook!

    Have you made your holiday gift list yet?  Done any shopping? Tell me in a comment what’s going on with you!

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  • Having a Totally Random Morning, How About You?

    Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

    I’ve been up for about two hours. I watched half an episode of Ally McBeal (Season One DVD. It’s awesome), helped two kids get their breakfast (Nathan, still sick, home today), made a pot of coffee, and turned on my laptop so I could start writing the approximately eleventy-billion posts I need to write (yes really, eleventy-billion. It is TOO a number).

    Because I can never decide what site I want to have as my homepage, I’m currently using a customized iGoogle desktop. I have a section (module? widget?) for The Huffington Post at the top left corner, and the huge headline that Ahmed Karzai, brother of the President of Afghanistan, gets regular payments from the C.I.A. was too juicy not to click through to read, so I did, and…well.

    I swear, I never mean to get as lost online as I do. I certainly never intend to look at the time in the bottom right corner of the system tray and realize that TWO HOURS have gone by, and that I have CHILDREN in this house. Okay, so they are pretty self-sufficient children, even Kaitlyn at 3 years 11 months is just fine amusing herself with a pile of Littlest Pet Shop animals for a while. But two hours? That’s like, bad, right? That I didn’t speak to the child sitting 3 feet away from me for that long, because I read an article on HuffPo and then clicked something else that caught my eye, and from there, something else, and so on?

    So if you’re wondering what exactly I was doing for two hours that kept me so oblivious, I grabbed the URLs:

    TV Squad DVD Review of Battlestar Galactica: The Plan- After reading the review by Mike Moody, I’m glad I didn’t buy this. I’ll add it to my Blockbuster Online queue instead. I was hoping for an original backstory, not recycled footage from the series with some new scenes added.  Then the banner ad caught my eye so I clicked and went to…..

    Target StyleBoutique- Nina Garcia helps “frugalistas” find fashionable looks at Target. I can relate to Marci, the Mom of 3 who lives in jeans and t shirts. The blue/black plaid dress with the belted black cardigan is fine looking, but for me? I’d maybe have one time a year where an outfit like that would be appropriate. Still, the videos are interesting and I do love Target. From there I went back to Huffington Post and read about…

    Kate Gosselin – who has renewed her registration as a nurse.  My first thought was, if she were to go back to working as a nurse, I hope she can get a day shift that would minimize the amount of time her kids would have to spend in after-school care or at home with a caregiver. Can you imagine what the cost would be for 8 kids, even part time?   Yikes.  Then, Kaitlyn came and sat down next to me with a Littlest Pet Shop poster and asked me if she could get the Cozy Care Adoption Center for Christmas. I said, “Let’s ask Santa to bring it”. She said, “how do we tell him?” I said, “I bet Santa has an email address”. So I googled “email to Santa”, and I found THIS!…

    Email Santa-  So I told Kaitlyn we could send Santa an email and ask him to bring her the Littlest Pet Shop Adoption Center. I started suggesting what her email could say, got her feedback, and we came up with this:

    Dear Santa,
    I have tried very hard to be a good girl this year. I’ve been good to my brothers and to my Mommy and Daddy. I will help make chocolate chip cookies for you to eat when you come. Thank you Santa!
    Love, Kaitlyn

    I know, right? Seriously cute. Now “Santa” just has to start saving money to buy the aforementioned LPS toy, which costs FORTY SEVEN DOLLARS. Sheesh, kid. In my day we got an orange and a candy cane and WE LIKED IT.

    So that was my morning. I also reviewed two Halloween episodes of WordGirl, drank coffee, and chatted with my Internet Twin about life and blogging and stuff. Maybe not the most productive morning, but definitely an interesting and enjoyable one.

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