A week ago Friday I prepared a crock of vegetable beef barley soup to bring to mom’s for Saturday’s lunch. It’s best that I do the cooking in my own house, as she has everything set. I paid bills, did some laundry, brought 37 shirts to the dry cleaners, read LJ, and packed. I also visited Walmart in Secaucus to see what it looked like. I ended up ( Read more... )

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On Friday we got snow.  I swept or shoveled at least 3 times ( Read more... )

Christmas eve day I drove Patrick to work.  Stopped at the A&P for mac & cheese ingredients for lunch.  Mom, Kim & Ciara went over to the mall so I had some alone time.  I cooked when they got back and threw Big Fish onto the big screen ( Read more... )

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Ugh - more shopping over the last few days.  Somebody slap me.

More card writing.

Wrapping is next.

Swap the Wave didn't go over too well last night.  It all takes time.

The last couple of days have been more Xmas related stuff.  I finished my letter, bought cards, got some photos printed, began writing out the cards, got my color printer hooked into my laptop after being attached to a dinosaur desktop for so long, bought stamps, bought some stocking stuffers, hung cards, blah blah blah.

Patrick was off yesterday.  ( Read more... )

I've been lax about reporting, probably because there hasn't been much excitement.  You read about the Doctor visits.  We've done quite a bunch of movie-watching.  That'll be a separate little post.  The rest:

Mon - Got a mailing for a free 2 Gig jump drive, so we took a ride to Micro Center with Colin.  We got an additional 1 Gig for free, and I ( Read more... )