Holiday Season

Well, we got about four inches of snow between yesterday afternoon and early this morning. And so tonight they called a snow emergency to plow the streets. Last night when I made it home from work, which took four times the normal time, I grabbed a parking space in the ally so I dont have to worry about the snow emergency that I figured they would call. And I didn’t feel like loosing the great parking space I nabbed last night so I didn’t do much today. I did some chores and cleaning around the apartment, otherwise I’ve been sitting around watching tv. I did go out though and get some exercise scrapping off my car and shoveling snow from around it.

I finally started feeling better from the “sinus infection” I had just in time for Thanksgiving. And I don’t know if I really had a “sinus infection” but that is what one of my doctor friends diagnosed me with over the phone. It only bothered me for three weeks. And while I didn’t have sinus problems per se, I did have a throbbing headache whenever I wasn’t on Tylenol. And I didn’t wan to stay on Tylenol unless I absolutely needed to go out and do something because I didn’t want to end up with Tylenol withdraw headaches when I was better. So I suffered through what I could, but it was miserable! Glad to say I haven’t needed to take Tylenol in over a week now!

Oh yes, I did go shopping the day after Thanksgiving. I went with Chris and a couple of his coworkers to the outlet malls…at midnight. The outlets actually opened at 10pm. By the time we got there at midnight, the parking lots were full and we had to park in over flow lots at one of the local schools. But they had over flow lots at a number of different places with shuttle buses running. (The shuttle bus driver said they had been running from 8pm of Thanksgiving night and were going to be running through most of Friday.) And it is an outdoor outlet mall (all the doors to the different stores open to the outside like at Folsom)…so you can imagine the fun of shopping when it’s -2 outside and windy! But Minnesotans are hardy and enjoy it, and they enjoy their black Friday deals. The Coach line was about an hour wait outside! We didn’t need anything, at Coach thankfully.

Tidbit by Thomas:

Incase you are stumped by what Thomas may want for Christmas, here’s a couple ideas:

• Gift certificates for Amazon, Michaels, and Target are handy (I recently discovered that Target does offer some good produce and food for descent prices)
• I have the two butsudans still and one of these days/years I’d like to be able to get the two side scrolls for them of Shinran and Rennyo. http://stores.buddhistbookstore.com/Detail.bok?no=60 ($50 can be steep, but if you wanted to specifically contribute money towards them, you can tell me.)
• I still collect stamps and coins, but I haven’t had a chance to really get any recently cause of my fixed/negative income…But here’s some of the sheets/panes I find interesting. (I have linked some of them to the post office store in case you want to see)
  
• (Early TV Memories)
• (Sunday Funnies)
• (Vancouver 2010 Olympics)
• State Flags (They came out in different sets)
• I dont think it has gift certificates, but if you wanted to designate a monetary gifts towards Ancestry.com, that would be useful too (paying quarterly is $50, paying monthly is $20)
  
• Green stuff is always useful too as it is always the right size, always the right color, and will always help me survive!

Two weeks till I'm home for Christmas break!