Cold today, but calm. It's supposed to go all to sh*t tonight, though. Predictions range for 2-4 or 6-12 inches of snow (depends on who you listen to) and possibly freezing rain overnight and throughout the day on Friday. Yikes!!
At lunch, I went to Lowe's, Bed, Bath and Beyond and then to the Town Peddler (an antique and craft store in Livonia) and finished (finally!) my Christmas shopping!
On the way home, I stopped at Office Depot to get some printer cartridges, paper, 9x12-inch envelopes and some 60 pound "approved" postal mailing wrapping paper. It dawned on me today that I will be sending my Mom the Blog for two weeks from home, not work, while I am on vacation. So, I need to be prepared! So, I got home about 5:30 PM, which was the earliest I have gotten home in several days.
Once home and the cats treated, I unloaded the car, refilled the windshield washer reservoir and started a small load of laundry. I got this year's license plate sticker in the mail, so I cleaned the plate, let it dry and then stuck it on. I put the new registration in the car's glove box after I laminated it. Then I changed clothes and started to plot out my vacation.
LOL, you can take the Project Manager on vacation, but you can't stop him from project managing! I entered every day's activities from December 19 to December 27 in my Franklin Planner (this would be pre-PDA for you techies). According to my calculations (always subject to change, of course) I should be able to give myself a birthday present of a shower in my new, improved shower! Sweet!
Next, I started to wrap all the presents. Pain in the butt, as always. But, I used the lessons I learned in my first job after I got married. I took over my Brother Joe's (he had left for the service in the Army) job in a dry cleaners as the delivery guy. Now, most people wanted their shirts delivered on hangers. But, some wanted them wrapped up. I watched in awe as the father of the owner wrapped them perfectly in paper. I used his technique from that day on until now and it has served me well.
Sidebar: Fran, our baby Amy and I lived in one of the apartments over the cleaners at that time. My main remembrance of that time was the over-powering smell of pinto beans. We had a Mexican couple as neighbors and damn near every night, they cooked pinto beans. It took me years (really) to be able to try pinto beans without gagging.
I finally finished wrapping the presents 8:30 PM. I warmed up some bean soup I thawed overnight and ate that with some crackers for dinner. I read a book until 10:00 PM, then went to sleep.
Was that the cleaners that Dave owned ?
ReplyDeleteYes! I forget the name of it (Uncle Joe would remember it), but yes.
ReplyDeleteI remember it being somewhere over near the Clinton river, near where he lived. I know Dad liked that old steel hull ChrisCraft he had.
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