Xmas

We started Xmas shopping yesterday.  It's going to be pretty modest. Something for a friend's toddler, something for a Max, something for Jon's Mom.  My parents' gift is going to be a drive down after New Year's Eve...and kinda my gift as well as its more expensive than in my parked four banger. We're feeding a V 6 as that is what is working at the moment.

Toddler gifts are easy.  He gets a couple cute books and a toddler size chair I found at the Salvation Army.  Had to deal with the legs as it only had feet on one side so it wasn't level, but I just ripped those off and taped over all the sharp bits on all four legs with electrical tape.  Nice and level now.  And one of the books has a ripped page but it was too cute with an actual story and nice illustrations that I really don't think it will matter.  It was obviously a much loved book.  The other book is just silly, full of colorful animals with googly eyes.

Jon's Mom was simple.  She got a few horrible movies, but her taste in movies leans  to the horrible.

Max is probably getting an Amazon gift card or some such.  I have no idea what 15 year old boys would like...or 15 year old in general.

The stores were predictably horrible.  It doesn't help that I work retail..  some woman yelled at a worker "Hey, Girl, how come this self check out don't work?"  That worker, being nicer than I would have been, fixed the machine.  I would just have walked away. Don't talk down to people if you want them to help you.

I heard someone call Crystal "Little Girl" a week ago.  She wasn't offended, but I would have been.  I would have educated that man.  Perhaps by referring to him as "Old Hilbilly."  Hey, as long as we're calling each other by obvious physical attributes.

Mid December

Currently, there is snow.  I not so happily scraped 3 inches off the porch.  It is still snowing.
Non Exploder Jeep needs a belt and water pump which has left us stranded for a few days. Ed is busy and not in love with the prospect of snowy cold and working on a cooling system when we don't have a garage.  Hopefully he will still do this even though we will have to drive squealing Jeep to the in law's house, evict Exploder Jeep and work there.  If not, I guess my friend Jess is willing to help us do it ourselves...or I can stay with Ruth until things get sorted.

Santa the UPS man was here.  I now have much bleaching powder and developer.  I doused a bit of my hair and am a bit more ginger than I would like.  Never fear.  I will likely (once I can get to a store) buy some purple shampoo to tone it down.  Plans are to dye it purple, but I should wait until after the holidays and inventory as this is against the dress code for work.  Says nothing about being a ginger, though.  At least it isn't clown orange.  The other solution is to re bleach, but since I don't wish to fry my hair, that will wait a while.

I also got this nifty little razor comb and gave myself a haircut.  Not bad for a 6 dollar disposable thing...I will buy another when it dulls.  Much easier to thin out my sporadically thick spots.

I am waiting on Jon to come home.  Hoping we can borrow a car to go buy some groceries as our supplies are very low and I am hungry.  We didn't need many things last week so did not buy much.  Should have, I suppose.

We are planning on seeing my parents after the New Year.  Hope the weather cooperates.  Seems like a really early cold and snow this year.  Lots of years there is no snow until after the New Year.  I also hope all mechanical and electronic things cooperate as 2013 has been horrid on cars and computers for us.

I am writing this on a touch screen and I very much hate auto correct and touch screens.  Give me a nice old fashioned keyboard any day.