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Thank you ladyflowdi, castor, and alorarose for the lovely snowflake cookies! Nom nom nom!
In other news, my ankle has been feeling pretty good these last few days, so today I decided to try and go out and get some shopping done - both from groceries and for holiday presents (or at least the stuff I'll be using to make the holiday presents). I started off being good and wearing my ankle brace, but it just doesn't fit very well into my shoes and it was pressing kind of uncomfortably against the bruises that have now shown up in all their ugly multi-colored glory, so I ended up taking it off after my first foray into the commercialized world. I did still have it wrapped, though, and actually without the brace I wasn't quite as gimpy as I was with it. Ankle was starting to hurt by the time I made my last stop (Fleet Farm for a few bags of almonds that I will be cinnamon roasting and giving as part of my holiday gifts), but otherwise it held up pretty well. Hurrah for healing!
On the not so happy department, the sticky break caliper on Coyote's front passenger side wheel pretty much gave up the ghost on the way back home. I could still drive just fine, but I could hear it scraping against the wheel even when the car was driving down the road (where as before it had only been scraping when I used the breaks), so yeah, I asked Dad if he could make me an appointment at our mechanics for Friday afternoon. There goes another 120 bucks.
BUT! I refuse to feel guilty because I have been really really good in the "not spending too much money" front, and I actually have 250 bucks in savings still as my "emergency fund for October-December". Since I still have 600 in my checking account on top of that, and have all of my bills payed for December already, the money for fixing Coyote's caliper will come out of that "emergency fund", as well as the money I'm spending to go see Manda. It'll be my Christmas present for myself. :D
In other news, my ankle has been feeling pretty good these last few days, so today I decided to try and go out and get some shopping done - both from groceries and for holiday presents (or at least the stuff I'll be using to make the holiday presents). I started off being good and wearing my ankle brace, but it just doesn't fit very well into my shoes and it was pressing kind of uncomfortably against the bruises that have now shown up in all their ugly multi-colored glory, so I ended up taking it off after my first foray into the commercialized world. I did still have it wrapped, though, and actually without the brace I wasn't quite as gimpy as I was with it. Ankle was starting to hurt by the time I made my last stop (Fleet Farm for a few bags of almonds that I will be cinnamon roasting and giving as part of my holiday gifts), but otherwise it held up pretty well. Hurrah for healing!
On the not so happy department, the sticky break caliper on Coyote's front passenger side wheel pretty much gave up the ghost on the way back home. I could still drive just fine, but I could hear it scraping against the wheel even when the car was driving down the road (where as before it had only been scraping when I used the breaks), so yeah, I asked Dad if he could make me an appointment at our mechanics for Friday afternoon. There goes another 120 bucks.
BUT! I refuse to feel guilty because I have been really really good in the "not spending too much money" front, and I actually have 250 bucks in savings still as my "emergency fund for October-December". Since I still have 600 in my checking account on top of that, and have all of my bills payed for December already, the money for fixing Coyote's caliper will come out of that "emergency fund", as well as the money I'm spending to go see Manda. It'll be my Christmas present for myself. :D