goodness...3 pages to catch up on!!!
ann...glad to hear all is well with your folks...
teri...your house sounds like mine will...assuming we ever get a house!! i love christmas decorations!! we only have room for one big tree, but i do have a small tabletop tree that i bought new ornaments and stuff for this year. it sits on an end table in the living room. i have snowflake window clingy things in the (duh!) windows...we have 4 stockings hanging from our mantle...one for me, one for matthew, and then two little ones for our cat, dusty, and then (don't laugh!) another one for my stuffed dalmatian matthew got me from build a bear last year. (i used to have 2 dalmatians but lost "custody" of them in the divorce...it was heartbreaking and matthew "built" me a dalmatian last year and named her after my real one) and then we bought a candleabra thing to go on the mantle...but that's all we have room for in our tiny apartment...
we braved the crowds the day after thanksgiving...it was actually fun! we stayed overnight at my mom and dad's this year so that we could get up and go with my mom and dad. mom and i set off to
walmart...i was after the 4 pack of power tools for matthew. it was only $50!! it has the basics...a cordless screwdriver, a drill, a sander, and a jigsaw. matthew has been going insane without tools. he wants to build shelves and stuff for our place, but can't do it cuz he doesn't have the right tools. so i saw this in the ads and decided to get it for him. the only other thing we wanted we made the guys get. it was a 63 piece mechanics toolset for my brother. we had already gotten him one a few weeks ago, but it was the smaller one and it was $30. when i saw this one, we decided that we would try to get the bigger one (also $30) and then take back the other one if we were successful. we were!! matthew and dad got to sears a little after 6am and snagged one. then they headed to jcpenny and dad got mom the little snowglobe. we had forgotten about them! i didn't realize that was what dad had in his pocket...and then on our way home, matthew decided that he wanted to give me one of my presents early. he said that he just couldn't wait until christmas for it. so when we got home, he gave me one of the mickey snowglobes!! it's now sitting on the shelf with my other snowglobes.
then we went came home and did nothing all day saturday. lounged around the apartment, watched tv...(fell asleep before ice wars though
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then on sunday...got up, went and had lunch at cheesecake factory...then got to go to an Indianapolis Colts football game! it was my first NFL game...how exciting!! matthew won 2 tickets at work last week...they were club seats...we got the 2 tickets and a parking pass...we had access to our own concessions, plus a full bar, etc. it was awesome!! and the colts actually played a great game!! i'm glad that the tickets were free for us...there's no way that i would willingly pay $150 per ticket for these...the seats were great, but i can think of lots of other things to spend $300 on...
hey teri...i would gladly take an AP for christmas too!! i've been a good girl all year...
k...i suppose i should do something work related here...i'm sure i'll be back later!! have a good day!!
......to make a long story short, ended up taking my dad to the ER where we spent 4 hours this afternoon...instead of visiting with my mom at the nursing home. Good news that hopefully it is only a urinary tract infection. Pretty scary for him with the symptoms he was having (after a benign prostate grwoth 18 mos ago 
) and for me walking in to his house this morning and finding him sick and "befuddled" as he calls it 
Must be this cold weather..or old age sinking in...
He likes that show though...well enough not to complain and he seems to enjoy the overnight getaway. Hard to explain, the caliber of the "production" on that tour is just far better than the other shows/tours. 
